1. More Links
2. Link Your Headlines
3. Link Your Images
4. Include a Table of Contents
5. Tease Them
6. Link Your Offer
7. Free Gift
8. Give an Expiration Date
9. Link to a Customer Video
10. Personalize Your Links

These tips are supposed to help you get more clicks. Try them and let me know.

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Simultaneously, as Americans use social media to provide a now-ubiquitous “what are you doing?” running daily dialogue via Facebook and Twitter, a stint on jury duty is proving irresistible fodder. Never mind that our justice system hinges on a sacred premise that jurors start a case with an unprejudiced, blank slate and promise to consider only the information and evidence presented in trial.

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In Arkansas, a juror used his cell phone to post Twitter updates during the trial. When revealed, he couldn’t understand what the fuss was about.

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Would you Tweet during jury duty? Before I read this, I think I might have.

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• the Sprint MiFi
• the magicJack

It’s a nice list, and not all tech.

• Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)

By the way, other great articles on Twitter you might want to check out:

• Mashable’s “The 7 Ways to Approach Twitter”
• TwiTip’s “Personal Brand - How to Build Yours In Twitter”
• TechCrunch’s look at Twitter post-Oprah, in “How Many New Twitter Users Post-Oprah? A Lot. Maybe Over A Million.”
• blog post by Marion Conway, “Getting Started Ways to Use Twitter, LinkedIn and Flickr – It’s All About Building Relationships“

• What is copyright protection?
• Fair use of copyrighted materials
• copyright.gov

These are sites to bookmark and reference.

The Smithsonian is looking to drag “the world’s greatest museum complex into the current century.” The Smithsonian 2.0 project sounds really interesting. Read more at the Houston Chronicle.

A company’s business performance suffers when its Web page takes longer than five seconds to load, according to the study. An additional delay of even one second can result in a loss of 7 percent of customers, an 11 percent decline in page views and a 16 percent drop in customer satisfaction, the study found.

Stories:

• Study: Business suffers when Web is slow, from the Houston Business Journal

Bush library’s Web company buys back domain name
– Houston Chronicle²

George W. Bush’s presidential library domain name has been retrieved after a Web developing company accidentally let it expire — and it apparently came at a high price.

Raleigh, N.C.-based Illuminati Karate paid less than $10 for the http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com domain name and sold it back earlier this year for $35,000 to the library’s contracted Web developers, Yuma Solutions, said George Huger, lead Web developer for Illuminati Karate.

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• Don’t just talk at consumers — work with them throughout the marketing process.
• Give consumers a reason to participate.
• Listen to — and join — the conversation outside your site.
• Resist the temptation to sell, sell, sell.
• Don’t control, let it go.
• Find a ‘marketing technopologist.’
• Embrace experimentation.

1. It takes time to gain trust.
2. You are what you write.
3. Use attribution.
4. Step away from the computer.
5. Look for the news peg.
6. Be consistent.
7. Precision is key.
8. Just get on with it.
9. Rewrite.
10. Understand you’re creating history.

• Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter — with information on tools, tips and ways you can get more followers.
• How to use twitter as a tool — specifically as a marketing tool.
• 6 Tips for Using Your Twitter Profile to Get New Followers  — at TwiTip, by Darren Rowse

That’s probably just the beginning.

Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer groups.

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The proposal to allow a no-smut, free wireless Internet service is part of a proposal to auction off a chunk of airwaves. The winning bidder would be required to set aside a quarter of the airwaves for a free Internet service. The winner could establish a paid service that would have a fast wireless Internet connection. The free service could be slower and would be required to filter out pornography and other material not suitable for children. The FCC’s proposal mirrors a plan offered by M2Z Networks Inc., a start-up backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner John Doerr.

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Can this really happen? Is it possible to make this a reality? I’d love to see this actually happen.

Let’s see.

1. A strategy
2. A dedicated group of bloggers
3. A posting schedule
4. A comment policy
5. An ‘about us’ section
6. Pictures and bios for every blogger
7. A blogroll with non company links
8. RSS subscriber buttons
9. A section for Recent Comments
10. A personal touch

I agree with all of them, even though I actually have very few in mine. Need to aspire to do better.

The one I’m checking out is #3, Ask Patty. “Jody DeVere created the first community to help women learn about cars.”

The list is quite extensive. Definitely worth checking out.

• Make a Good Website With Content That Attracts People
• Join the Community Conversations — this includes:

• www.blogsbycity.com
• www.blogdigger.com
• www.metblogs.com
• www.feedmap.com
• www.yelp.com
• www.citysearch.com
• www.insiderpages.com
• www.judysbook.com

• www.libdex.com
• www.libraries411.com
• www.publiclibraries.com
• http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb

The piece is written by Aaron Schmidt and Sarah Houghton-Jan.

Aaron Schmidt is the director at the North Plains (Ore.) Public Library and author of the blog walkingpaper.org. He holds an M.L.I.S. from Dominican University in River Forest, Ill. Schmidt speaks at library conferences and staff days, and he consults with libraries on website usability. His email address is librarian@gmail.com.
Sarah Houghton-Jan is the digital futures manager for the San Jose ( Calif.) Public Library and author of the blog LibrarianInBlack.net. She holds an M.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. in Irish literature from Washington State University. Houghton-Jan is active in ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association, has been published widely, and speaks worldwide on the intersection of libraries and technology. Her email address is librarianinblack@gmail.com.

1. Everyone will have the ability to know what you did and who you were with on a daily basis.
2. Historical trend analysis will leap to a new level of precision.
3. We will not use history to learn from our mistakes, but to prevent them before they happen.
4. There is little room for hiding details about our lives.
5. An ethical war over the use of this information will arise.

Did you know that America now represents only 15% of the Global Internet?In the last 10 years the Internet has radically de-Americanized with profound strategic consequences for Internet CEOs, boards, VCs, investment bankers, government policy makers, and the entire U.S. economy.

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• Google’s Chrome Ups the Ante, by Business Week
• Google Working on Browser: What About Mozilla?, by SitePoint
• Ambitions enough for another 10 years — But Google’s plans may butt up against backlash from its growth, by Houston Chronicle²

Some other stories to watch & things to do:

• Target Settles Accessibility Lawsuit for $6 Million, by SitePoint
• Need to declutter your life? Reboot Your Workflow This Fall with tips from lifehacker
• From LibrarianInBlack, “I recently published a lengthy article in the UK open access journal Ariadne“Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload.” Enjoy! The journal also has an excellent article promoting the option of allowing employees to telecommute (e.g. “work from home” for those unfamiliar with the term).“
• Also, did you know that U.S. Hispanics are active online social networkers? That’s what Forrester Research says, in this HispanicTrending article.
• Legacy Multimedia has a wonderful post on the importance of creating a storyboard for multimedia projects.

Some links to add to your bookmarks:

• soundunwound, from the great people who brought us imdb, it’s the ultimate online database for music knowledge
• SitePoint Blogs gives us 15 Places to Sell Your Photos

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