The Top 7 Free Ways To Boost Your Organic Page Rank

One of my oldest friends in the business is Dan Smigrod, the CEO and CEO & Chief Creative Officer at GREAT!
GREAT! creates buzz for television and entertainment clients by conceiving and executing fun, innovative and brand experiences.
Dan was telling me about acompany he met with called Definition 6, afull-service interactive marketing and e-commerce agency [...]

blip.tv new distribution deals

Congratulations to past NY:MIEG panelist Mike Hudak, CEO of blip.tv on their new distribution deals…congrats Mike!
(from paidcontent.org via nyconvergence.com)
David Kaplan/paidContent.org
Tuesday, July 28, 2009; 4:28 PM
Online video provider Blip.tv has added YouTube, Vimeo, NBCU Local Media NY, and Roku as content partners, the company announced at a press conference this morning. The deals represent a shot [...]

Warren Buffett: The Cartoon?

I was intrigued when I read this story about a new cartoon for kids with Warren Buffett teaching kids about money. I only wish this was available when I was a kid!
FROM TheDeal.com
What do dealmaker Warren Buffett, lifestyle media magnate Martha Stewart, supermodel Gisele Bündchen and late astronomer Carl Sagan have in common? Aside from [...]

NPR: The Cutting Edge of Journalism

By ELIZABETH JENSEN/The New York Times
Published: July 26, 2009
Even as far back as 1979 when I was an intern at WAMC (the NPR member station in Albany), National Public Radio has always been on the cutting edge…I remember when they were the first network to switch to total satellite distribution (from terrestrial landline) they understood [...]

AOL: 11 Years of Failure?

Interesting article from today’s New York Times
July 24, 2009, 11:42 am
Eleven Years of Ambition and Failure at AOL
By Saul Hansell
I’ve been writing profiles of AOL executives for nearly half of the company’s 24-year life. And for all but one heady 18-month period, they were on the defensive. AOL, they said, had the technology, content and [...]

Silverman’s Out at NBC Universal

(from Forbes.com)
Silverman’s Out At NBC/Lacey Rose, 07.27.09, 11:26 AM EDT
The controversial entertainment executive departs the sinking network after running it for less than two years.
NBC lost its most controversial entertainment executive–and the press its oft-beaten piñata–when 38-year-old wunderkind agent-turned-television mogul Ben Silverman announced he’d be leaving his position as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal [...]

Jerry Della Femina “Happy Birthday To Me”

As a followup to our story about David Ogilvy, I was reading a column by another original “Mad Men” Jerry Dell Femina in the Long Island Press and just had to share it. For those of you who are unfamiliar, according to Wikipedia, A self-styled “publicity slut,” Della Femina made headlines for colorful comments throughout [...]

40th Anniversary Salute to the Woodstock Music Festival

As we prepare for our online salute to the 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival starting on August 1st,  my friend Alan Herman wrote that he and his wife Amy stopped by the Bethel Woods a few weeks ago and said it was quite an experience. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a [...]

Bill Sobel: Tips and Tactics for Social Media in Healthcare

Thanks to Doug Simon for interviewing me last week at The BDI Social Communications Healthcare Conference. we talked about tips and tactics for Social Media in Healthcare…but what we discussed is appropriate for almost any industry
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NYBR STATEMENT REGARDING RECENT SCANDAL IN NJ

New York Board of Rabbis (NYBR)
STATEMENT REGARDING RECENT SCANDAL
NEW JERSEY/NEW YORK
The New York Board of Rabbis is shocked and saddened by recent criminal charges against New Jersey elected officials and especially those who pride themselves as rabbis.

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