Perhaps you’ve heard of the global phenomenon known as Ignite. If not, allow us to give you a brief introduction. The idea sprang out of the minds of a couple of guys in Seattle back in 2006. They thought it would be fun to give people the opportunity to share an idea or thought with an audience, but under some pretty strict guidelines. Specifically, each speaker was allowed five minutes for their presentation and 20 slides that would auto-adva ...continue

Chances are, you do the same few things on the Internet each day. You probably check your email account(s), update your various social media sites, and catch up on your favorite news sites and blogs. Lifestreaming services or social media aggregators are designed to be one-stop shops for these activities. And then can in fact make your online life much easier. (They can be life-savers if you haven't been using any such tool and have been trying t ...continue

Some of the best Internet applications are ones that enable you to live a fuller life AWAY from your computer. Aardvark, or Vark, just might fall into this category. It's an ingenious new online service (with accompanying iPhone app) that allows you to ask a question, location-based or otherwise, and get an answer in as little as a few minutes. You can sync the service with your Facebook or Google contacts, and thus it's also a great supplement ...continue

Where Are You Now? Location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, and BlockChalk are all the rage these days, possibly because they're still so new, but probably also because they offer users the ability to turn their mobile phone addictions into something that can have very tangible real-world benefits in terms of building and maintaining relationships. And while a lot of the attention has been on how these services can facilitate impromp ...continue

One of the best things about the Internet is the speed and ease with which we can share the things that we find exciting, inspiring, or hilarious with other people. Social bookmarking and sharing tools makes this as easy as the click of a button, and quite frankly, if you are not already using content sharing buttons, you should be. After all, why wouldn't you want to make it as easy as possible for people to share and broadcast your best conten ...continue

Twitter is great and all, but sometimes it can be hard to see the forest for the trees. If you are at a bit of a loss and wondering what to do now that you're on Twitter, check out Listorious.com for some ideas on who to follow. Listorious is a compendium of every kind of list imaginable of people who are on Twitter. No matter what you are into, be it Photography, Tech, Design or just about anything else, there's a list for that on Listorious. ...continue

So you’ve hopped on the bandwagon and set up a Facebook and Twitter account for your business. Congratulations! You have officially arrived at the cocktail party that is the 21st century. But there remains plenty to do. You can’t just hide in the corner nursing your drink. You have to get out there and establish a presence, and in order to do that you’re going to need a plan. Here are five steps to creating a vibrant and engaged following ...continue

There are lots of good reasons to attend an Internet marketing conference. The in-person networking opportunities that conferences present are hard to beat. At any of the events listed below, you'll have the chance to rub shoulders with some of the industry's best and brightest; you will be there along with established rock stars of the Internet marketing world as well as all of the promising up-and-comers (like you, for example). Affiliate S ...continue

Meetup.com is the perfect confluence of online social networking and in-person social networking. Social networking websites are great, but they really can’t compete with the power of meeting and connecting with someone in person. Actual social networking solidifies relationships and often seals real business deals. That is why conferences come so highly recommended on this site. But if you don’t have a couple of grand lying around to attend ...continue

Social bookmarking is one of the hottest trends in social networking. It is a great way to make more contacts with people, and content that makes the front page of social bookmarking sites can be a windfall of traffic for your site. Social bookmarking allows Internet users to collectively store, organize, search, and manage links to web content. Social bookmarking was started around 1996, but all of the social bookmarking sites of that time f ...continue