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QR Codes for Marketers or Consumers?

Quick-Response codes are a great mobilizing idea — in theory. However, according to Forrester Research, only 5% of Americans who own mobile phones report actually ever scanning one in the last three months. Those that did, tended to be the young, affluent, male, early-adopter demographic. So who are QR codes for — marketers or consumers?!

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Review: SocialEars from HRmarketer

HRmarketer has recently announced the BETA release of SocialEars, a social listening and media analytics software platform for the HR marketplace, which does so much more than just listen.

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8 WordPress Plugins for User Experience

At JDM, we’re big fans of WordPress for most applications (business & blogging) and we love looking at people’s picks for the best plugins to extend this flexible CMS. After half a decade of experience, here are JDM’s picks for the very best WordPress plugins to improve user experience.

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New Year’s Marketing Resolutions 2012

New Years is seriously one of my favorite times of the year. It’s about renewal, reinvention and, of course, resolutions. For this Shameless News post, I’d like to share a few New Year’s Marketing Resolutions. Let’s see if we can keep them…

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The First Gamified Corporate Website

Is it a sign that gamification is gaining corporate acceptance, or a big mistake by the electronics manufacturer? Samsung has decided to ‘gamify’ their corporate website, in an attempt to foster engagement with their advocates and potential consumers.

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Mobile App vs Web App

To App or Not to App? The debate between developing lower-cost mobile websites versus a higher-cost mobile application is contentious. A mobile website can render on all devices but doesn’t get full access to local tools like GPS, the camera, accelerometers, etc. So which way is the mobile world leaning: app, website, or something in between?

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WordPress 3.3 is Leaner and Meaner

A new leaner and meaner version of WordPress has recently been released and is available for download/upgrade. WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”, named in honor of the great jazz saxophonist, Sonny Stitt, sports some new drag & drop media management functionality as well as some great administration updates that streamlines the tasks admins work with all the time.

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How do I get a cool comment badge?

JDM’s website (or websites, really) use avatars to generate those cool badges in comments, but we’re not the only one’s that use them. In fact, we use something called Gravatars (a combination of ‘Avatar’ and Global’) that means you only have to setup your avatar once (on the Gravatar site) and it will work on any website that uses that API.

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Frankenstein Marketing Technology

Technology makes life easier. For business, web technology allows for a level of integration and automation of some of the largest profit centers your business has (marketing, sales, support, operations, etc.). However, like Frankenstein’s monster, technology can sometimes run amok. If you’re ready to add some real value to your business through such web technologies …

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Taking the B.S. Out of BuSiness!

The vocabulary of business management has been corrupted by meaningless buzz-words, and by trivial aphorisms. We seem to have moved from an age of builders, inventors, entrepreneurs, and innovators to a passive generation content to listen to the musical words of new-age business gurus. Most of what passes for modern business teaching seems to have …

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10 things I’ve learned recently…

I hope to make a habit (or at least a series) out of “10 things I’ve learned recently”, but you’ve got to start somewhere. There will be more coming soon, but for this first one, here goes.

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Do Not Cut Corners with Mobile

Transitioning from the loosey goose world of the desktop web to the small, but ubiquitous screen of the mobile in haste, and with many cut corners, has spelled disaster for many. With just seconds to get a mobile user’s attention, an intrusive interface and slow-loading video will turn users off — pun intended.

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