[Webinar] What Every Chief Marketing Officer Needs To Know About Content Strategy – August 25, 2010 | 10:30am PDT

Plan to attend our free one-hour webinar, “What Every Chief Marketing Officer Needs To Know About Content Strategy“, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:30am PDT. Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler and Mark Fidelman, Vice President of Sales, MindTouch will discuss content, content strategy, and how a lack of a cohesive content strategy can negatively impact corporate marketing efforts. The duo will also explore the findings of a recent survey of 300 technical communicators, and discuss how companies that understand the concept of “social proof” (and how it impacts buying decisions) are …

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The LavaCon Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies

The LavaCon Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies (September 29–October 2 in San Diego) is sure to be one of this year’s best conferences. Now in its 8th year, LavaCon has expanded from its technical communication and training roots to include topics of interest to all professional communication pros. Whether you are a marketing manager trying to develop a plan to manage a social networking campaign, a technical writer trying to get control of your content creation, management and delivery processes, or an business or project manager trying to …

10 Years On: Free Software Wins (But You Have Nowhere To Install It)

By Tony Mobily, Editor-in-Chief, Free Software Magazine I am typing this as I am finally connected in shell to my Android phone. The prompt reminds me that it’s based on the Linux kernel (it’s free), the Dalvik virtual machine (it’s free), and free libraries. Millions of Android devices are shipped every day, each one is a Linux system. Today, it’s a phone. Soon, it will be tablets: Android 3.0 (coming out at the end of the year) will finally be very suitable for tablets. Apple alone will have to face …

Lifehack: Free or Cheap SaaS Tools I Used to Get to Inbox Zero

By Chris Bucchere, Chief Executive Officer, Mojo Lately I’ve been really overwhelmed by my email inbox. This is not a new problem, but in the past I’ve been able to keep it at under a hundred emails; recently it has grown to nearly 300 and it has really begun to interfere with my getting things done. So, last night, I took a good, hard look at what was really IN my inbox. About 40% of the notes consisted of links sent to me by well-meaning people who thought I should …

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