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By Ste Drayton | September 21, 2007

Here’s the list… Engage Don’t just listen to your community. EngageEnforce Let the community help set standards and policies for appropriate behavior-then enforce themTake Responsibility […]

How to Win Links and Influence People – Part 1 of 3

By Ste Drayton | September 10, 2007

By Jennifer Laycock, Editor-in-Chief, SearchEngineGuide.com If the title of this article sounds familiar, don’t be surprised. It’s been more than 70 years since “How to […]

Reviving Anorexic Web Writing

By Ste Drayton | August 15, 2007

Monday morning began precisely as Monday mornings are not supposed to begin: with an argumentative prospective client standing in my office (sans appointment) telling me […]

Better Writing Through Design

By Ste Drayton | August 15, 2007

Good web design has a signature style: It’s approachable, it’s easy to understand, and it packs enough punch to catch the roving eye of even […]

Feature Richness and User Engagement

By Ste Drayton | August 13, 2007

Summary: The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment — especially to websites, which must […]

Commenting on google news – follow up

By Ste Drayton | August 10, 2007

http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/answer.py?answer=74123&topic=12285, The instructions are:  * How do I submit a comment to Google News? * If you have been mentioned in a story and you […]

Google news allowing comments

By Ste Drayton | August 9, 2007

Google News now allows organization and individuals that are quoted in the stories it indexes to post comments in reply. Here’s an example (hat tip […]

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By Ste Drayton | August 8, 2007

Suppose your company, boss or political candidate discovers that their Wikipedia article is wrong, or has subtle inaccuracies that nonetheless paint them in an unfavorable […]

New Global Study From MTV, Nickelodeon and Microsoft Challenges Assumptions About Relationship Between Kids, Youth & Digital Technology

By Ste Drayton | August 8, 2007

The report found: Technology has enabled young people to have more and closer friendships thanks to constant connectivity. Friends influence each other as much as […]

Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them

By Ste Drayton | August 3, 2007

In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the […]