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Thanks to Twitter, Drey snagged 21 new sales leads, and Twitter also helped him seal one $6,000-a-year contract. Fliqz signs or renews up to 30 deals a month, so the company is hardly tweeting its way to massive growth. But it's not too shabby a return for a free tool. Drey estimates that he spends eight hours a week on Twitter, or the equivalent of 2% of his marketing budget every year. - alex de carvalho

This model does two things. First, it defines the eight competencies we think are required for successful community management. Second, it attempts - at a high level - to articulate how these competencies progress from organizations without community management that are still highly hierarchical to those that have embraced a networked business ecosystem approach to their entire organization. - alex de carvalho

Specifically, the TV industry's attitude is the same as the newspaper industry's attitude was circa 2002-2003: Stop calling us dinosaurs: We get digital; We're growing our digital businesses; We're investing in digital platforms; People still recall ads even when they fast-forward through them on DVRs; There's no substitute for TV ads. Traditional TV isn't going away: Just look at our revenue and profits! - alex de carvalho

Even as Twitter's users have jumped to an estimated 32.1 million from 1.6 million a year ago, the San Francisco company has just 45 employees, up from around 21 in January, and it has brought on only a handful of people with sales or business experience. - alex de carvalho

I started writing my beginner's guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It's time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO. - alex de carvalho

As companies are increasingly connected in how they work, these drivers will play an increasingly large role in organizational performance. - alex de carvalho

Import blog entries from the whole blogsphere into your blog stream with Roundhouse; our social blogging tool. - alex de carvalho

I wanted to find a simple RSS feed aggregation tool that allows people to add RSS and ATOM feeds to a social tool that would aggregate them into a simple web page - alex de carvalho

So there's the Twitter-sphere for you! Bring on "real time search," bring on a globally connected community, bring on vapid, vile, stupid shilling. It all seems pretty sad to me. And to the advertisers out there - is this cynical scheme the best you can do to engage with all the new ways people are communicating online? That's pretty bad. - alex de carvalho

Starting to evaluate SocialEngine I was positively surprised how technically open and well programmed it was. It’s expandable with plug-ins and uses Smarty to customize its look and feel. - alex de carvalho

April 7th, 2009 The Story Behind Vote Report India: Citizen-Powered Election Monitoring Welcome to Gauravonomics Blog! Subscribe to my combined feed in a feed reader or by e-mail and you'll never miss a single post. Thanks for visiting! Vote Report India This is a long and winding story, so let me first give you the quick short version. I’m honored to be part of the wonderful team that launched Vote Report India yesterday. Vote Report India is a collaborative citizen-powered election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections. Basically, users contribute direct SMS, email, and web reports on violations of the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct (PDF). The platform will then aggregate these direct reports with news reports, blog posts, photos, videos and tweets related to the elections from all relevant sources, in one place, on an interactive map. - alex de carvalho

The Disclosure Best Practices Toolkit is a draft series of checklists to help companies, their employees, and their agencies learn the appropriate and transparent ways to interact with blogs, bloggers, and the people who interact with them. We believe in the principles of transparency and openness, and this document is a way of making this real on the inside. Our goal is not to create or propose new industry standards or rules. These checklists are open source training tools designed to help educate the hundreds or thousands of employees in any large corporation the appropriate ways to interact with the social media community. - alex de carvalho

Social networks are taking off in China. The following guest post by George Godula. David Li, and Richard Yu explores how Chinese social networks are pursuing different business models than their American counterparts, relying more on micropayments and the sale of virtual goods. - alex de carvalho

When compared to other social media sites, Facebook has a much larger potential reach for “memes” (ideas that people can’t help sharing with their friends) but is quite restrictive on the ways in which these memes can spread. To identify the characteristics necessary for a meme to thrive on Facebook, we must look at what the restrictions demand from them. - alex de carvalho

Think LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews) is the only place for business? Facebook (Facebook reviews) is growing rapidly and it’s becoming a destination for businesses and business professionals alike to establish a presence. Here are over 30 Facebook applications to help promote, network, communicate, collaborate and accomplish more with your business. - alex de carvalho

Every day I run across some cool new site for Twitter. Who would have thought that micro-blogging would inspire so many random data mines & apps? I’ve compiled several published lists, my bookmarks & links I’ve been sent – so I can’t claim to be the origin of this list. Keep in mind, many of these overlap & do the same thing. - alex de carvalho

There are a wide variety of web applications, Twitter accounts, and even iPhone apps that can help people do everything from track popular hashtags to graph out recent Twitter trends. As Twitter grows, this information will only become more useful for understanding what is popular at any given moment, or even what was popular in the past. - alex de carvalho

Twitter has become a powerful tool for community organizers, marketers, and others who want to share and receive information in a fast, friendly environment. It’s no wonder, then, that teachers have also found success on Twitter, using the tool to connect with students, share information with parents, and find useful resources. Here, we’ll take a look at 100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool. - alex de carvalho

A simple tollbooth approach at any price cuts out the vast majority of the audience, and would mean that newspapers were retrenching to print — saying in effect, “If you want our news online, it’s there, just pay the fee, but we’re no longer investing much energy in developing our sites, because there’s no money on that side of the fence.” A newspaper industry retrenchment to print would mean a withdrawal from competing online. The game would be to squeeze the remaining profits out of print while the clock runs out; while readers continue to migrate online, now to non-newspaper online-only sources; and advertisers follow the audience to the Web. - alex de carvalho

Itrios provides powerful software that combines intelligent data integration, easy-to-create business rules, and service-oriented actions. Combined, these three powerful capabilities can help you streamline repetitive or complex tasks and increase productivity without increasing staff resources. - alex de carvalho

Converting your PSD designs into a fully functional XHTML/CSS code has never been simpler! This service includes slicing your PSD design into a working XHTML/CSS website which is valid, works correctly in all major web browsers (IE6, IE7, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari) and operating systems. - alex de carvalho

The really hard thing for people when they're making the transition, and this is not a popular thing to say, is the web is harder than print. It needs to be said all the time. You need to get up in the morning and put your shoulder to the wheel. It's not going to get solved tomorrow. There's not a technological solution; there's not a marketing solution. The solution is doing really, really good work, and over time consumers find it. - alex de carvalho

6 principles that I thought should inform the BBC’s attitude to capturing, retaining and using personal data - alex de carvalho

“Even before the city is a place of fixed residence, it begins as a meeting place to which people periodically return: the magnet comes before the container, and this ability to attract nonresidents to it for intercourse and spiritual stimulus no less than trade remains one of the essential criteria of the city, a witness to its essential dynamism, as opposed to the more fixed and indrawn form of the village, hostile to the outsider.” - alex de carvalho

Government 2.0 Camp is the unconference about using social media tools and Web 2.0 technologies to create a more effective, efficient and collaborative U.S. government on all levels (local, state, and federal). - alex de carvalho