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April 8, 2008
Those unfamiliar with The SEO Rapper get thyself immediately to the SEO Rapper site and his YouTube page. We highly recommend:
The Design Rap
If you have animation / Please use moderation; Because search engines can’t / Index the information.
…and
The Paid Search Rap
Research all your keywords and your phrases / they all sound good but they […]
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March 12, 2008
Phil Villarreal is a writer.
Oddpodz: You write the blog Because I Told You So. You subtitled it “Free Porn” despite it having no porn. Besides disappointing me, what a genius SEO decision that is; can I steal it?
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February 20, 2008
Lou Harry is the Arts & Entertainment Editor for Indianapolis Business Journal. He has authored or co-authored a large number of books including The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures, In the Can, As Seen on TV, Creative Block, and The High-Impact Infidelity Diet: A Novel and created popular novelty items such as the The Portable Voodoo […]
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January 23, 2008
How do you stay ahead of it all?
Every month we will feature a guru, forward thinker and visionary change agent. Someone who covers what’s happening before many even think about it, someone who writes about cool stuff or has some opinionated conviction on the subject of tomorrow. Also check out the links to some very […]
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December 15, 2007
Keith Sawyer is a professor of psychology and education at Washington University and the author of ten books including “Creativity and Development,” “Social Emergence” and “Creativity in Performance.” His latest book is “Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration”
One of your first jobs after graduating from M.I.T. was designing videogames for Atari. Too bad […]
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November 15, 2007
Nedra Kline Weinreich is the president and founder of Weinreich Communications and is one of the foremost experts in social marketing.
A frequent speaker, Nedra teaches social marketing at UCLA’s School of Public Health and was adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. She is the author of Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide and a prominent blogger […]
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October 15, 2007
Josh Spear is the managing director of the eponymous agency Spear Creative Group, a unique team of seasoned strategists, cutting edge designers, and proven trend spotters dedicated to supporting companies to effectively evolve to the next level of visibility, efficiency and excellence.
A Brand Intuitive, Josh is currently touring a presentation nation- (and world-) wide […]
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September 15, 2007
Innovation is dying. Please discuss.
Too many people equate innovation with change alone. Our firm, 2thinknow, looks at innovation as positive change, we’ve even been known to define it as a change for the good of humanity in our wilder moments.
So technological change whirs along, but is a new technology really innovative? Does it allow humans […]
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August 15, 2007
Marian Salzman is EVP, JWT Worldwide, and co-author and author of lots of books about modern culture including Next Now, published in December 2006 by Palgrave.
She’s flown hundreds of thousands of miles, met hundreds of hundreds of people via market research exercises, and reads numerous newspapers electronically in a given week. In fact, we […]
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July 15, 2007
Jim Canterucci is an executive advisor, author, professional speaker, and CEO and founder of Transition Management Advisors. He works closely with executive teams to bring great ideas from the boardroom to implementation. He is the author of Personal Brilliance - Mastering the Everyday Habits that Create a Lifetime of Success and host of the popular […]
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