Ah, YouTube. You never know what you’re going to find! This week I discovered a little treasure from the 60′s featuring my boy Leonard, the original Spock. Everyone is aware of Captain Kirk’s vocal abilities, but Spock released a few albums as well. Take a break and watch Leonard sing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins on the 60′s variety show Malibu U.
Now onto the stuff you were really looking for, here’s what the team’s been reading this week.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on the EMP blog. I’ve been busy catching up on episodes of Shark Tank and counting down to the release of Star Trek Into the Darkness. If you don’t remember who I am, I’m Max Speed, the guy on the Pole Position Marketing team who says things other team members wouldn’t dare say. Maybe that’s why they haven’t let me post for awhile?
While the rest of the team would like me to share some web marketing news, I’d like to share something from the final frontier… space. If you haven’t checked it out yet, go visit Timelapse and view timelapse videos of anyplace on Earth created from nearly three decades of images collected by NASA’s Landsat in collaboration with Google and Time.
Here’s what the rest of the team has been reading…
Here in Ohio, we’ve had a nice week of sunny weather in the mid-70′s, and it’s amazing how a week of sunshine makes you feel! It’s made us feel so good, that part of the crew has made a resolution to start working off that winter weight with an afternoon plank break. I’m realizing just how out-of-shape I am! After the planks, it’s back to the desk to catch our breath and catch up on the latest happenings in the web marketing world. Here’s a sampling of what the crew has been reading this week.
We were really excited when Disney bought Lucasfilm and along with it the Star Wars franchise—Episodes VII, VIII and IX!—but were confused with seemingly conflicting reports this week. In an article by the Huffington Post, George Lucas revealed that Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were pretty much a done deal for Episode VII. Carrie Fisher even seemed to confirm it, but alas, this report says she was only joking. The changes coming to Facebook though are no joke. And that’s not all we’ve been reading about this week.
Lots of things happened in the world of social media this week: Facebook unveiled Graph Search, the Twitterverse exploded with the discovery of Manti Te’o fake girlfriend and good old MySpace got a facelift, courtesy of Justin Timberlake. Based on that, you might think social media is the center of the inbound marketing universe. Of course, it IS important, but there’s so much other interesting stuff out there. Here’s what we were reading this past week…
There are a lot of blogging platforms out there. A lot! Blogging is a powerful medium for communication, relationship building and social media strategy, so it makes sense that there are many platform options to choose from. While most blogging platforms will work for most bloggers on a pretty basic level, jumping on the first blogging platform you run across may be bad for your long-term blogging strategy.
And if you don’t have a long-term blogging strategy today, you might have one tomorrow and find out the blogging you did yesterday wasn’t on a platform compatible for the future. So think ahead and try to keep up.
Most of the blogging platforms out there are pretty similar with some minor variations. But there are a few key things that you need to pay attention to in order to ensure you’re using a platform that works for your long-term goals.
Although it’s not rocket science, the study of web marketing is challenging because it changes all the time. That’s why our team is committed to learning and to keeping up with (and staying ahead of) the latest trends. Here’s what we’ve been reading this week…
According to Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) Wilde, an Irish writer, poet and playwright, “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” Although we’re not sure about the overdressed part, we agree you can never know enough, especially in web marketing. Here’s what we’ve been learning this week…
At Pole Position Marketing, we’re one heck of a smart team. Some of it’s just natural ability. The rest is because we read smart stuff written by other smart people in our industry. Enjoy what we thought was the best of the best this week.
When I decided to become a serious Twitter user, I figured the first thing I had to do was search for people and/or conversations that I could follow and get involved with. So, I decided find people in the marketing field that were within a 2 hour drive from my hometown. Why? Well, a few reasons…
