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Marketing Sherpa Names Marketing Best Blog 2005

Marketing Sherpa (sometimes mentioned by EMMA, and always favorably) has named its 2005 Best Blog winners - bloggers who have officially survived 2,065 tough judges (really?) who carefully evaluated 52-nominated blogs to pick the winners.

The best blog on the general topic of marketing and advertising goes to Seth Godin's Blog at
http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/blog.html

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Internet marketing papers - free for 10 days

Marketing Sherpa offers its site visitors a range of FREE-to-view articles for 10 days following publication. These are not always the usual research papers. A glance at the articles today include topics like:

• How Autobytel Ramped Up to 150,000 PPC Search Campaigns : 5 Best Practices in Campaign Management


• What I Learned on Summer Vacation in Croatia: Advertising in Eastern Europe


• Marketing Fame Briefs: 3 Speaking Gigs & 7 Awards to Nominate Yourself for

You can find these and others not quite like them at www.marketingsherpa.com.

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Training from the source

A proactive approach to anything (doctor visits, trips to the car mechanic, conversations with the person who's roofing your house) is usually worth the time and energy and then some. The mechanics of using Google AdWords is no exception; the more you know, the better chance you have of pushing your website page up in the ranks.

So here's your chance to learn more:
Google AdWords Training Exercises

Remember when a SuperThin was a cigarette?

The NY Times recently published an article in their excellent "Circuits" section (every Thursday in the business section) on the new wave of superthin digital cameras.  March, 2005 introduced six of these to the digitally inclined masses — ranging from Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-T7 (0.6" thin) to a slightly heavier Canon PowerShot SD400 and all featuring some very nifty features. My favorite? 5 megapixels of beautiful, rich color. That's it, in the picture above.

Why the Nikon? And why not the Canon? Two reasons: I've been using a Nikon Coolpix 2100 and was completely happy with it and all the other Nikons I've ever used and 2, the color comparisons shown on the NYT website  put the Nikon out in front of even the Canon.

Not a problem for me but no viewfinder on the S1 and there's no direct hook-up to my computer. Other than that,  it's really fast on startup (2 seconds) and in continous shooting mode (1.8 fps). But really, for me it all comes down to color and clarity. Ok, and looks. I love the way this camera looks.