http://amitklein.com Figurin' it out... Wed, 16 May 2012 17:34:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://amitklein.com/2009/07/08/slides-from-social-media-training-sessions/ http://amitklein.com/2009/07/08/slides-from-social-media-training-sessions/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:59:46 +0000 amit http://amitklein.com/?p=613 Last week I gave a few training sessions to new joinees in our company covering Social Media, Online Advertising and Analytics.  From talks I’ve had with new joinees, I’ve found this information isn’t covered in college/graduate coursework. I’m planning on … Continue reading →

]]> http://amitklein.com/2009/07/08/slides-from-social-media-training-sessions/feed/ 10 http://amitklein.com/2009/05/31/advertising-is-not-a-sustainable-business-model-for-the-web-unless-you-are-a-search-engine/ http://amitklein.com/2009/05/31/advertising-is-not-a-sustainable-business-model-for-the-web-unless-you-are-a-search-engine/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 09:35:09 +0000 amit http://amitklein.com/?p=565 The long-held myth that web companies can achieve profitability through free products, services and content solely based on advertising is fading.  The diminishing rates of online ads, and the slowdown of venture capital and IPOs, has led to a realization … Continue reading →

]]> http://amitklein.com/2009/05/31/advertising-is-not-a-sustainable-business-model-for-the-web-unless-you-are-a-search-engine/feed/ 8 http://amitklein.com/2008/12/18/the-transition-to-real-time-social-search/ http://amitklein.com/2008/12/18/the-transition-to-real-time-social-search/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:32:49 +0000 amit http://amitklein.com/?p=362 John Batelle recently wrote a great post about the shift from static to real-time search.  To paraphrase he says that Google is/was awesome because for the first time, you could quickly and accurately get static information about any search term.  … Continue reading →

]]> http://amitklein.com/2008/12/18/the-transition-to-real-time-social-search/feed/ 1 http://amitklein.com/2008/11/29/the-razorfish-consumer-experience-report/ http://amitklein.com/2008/11/29/the-razorfish-consumer-experience-report/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:17:50 +0000 amit http://amitklein.com/?p=342 Every year Ave A/Razorfish puts out a yearly report highlighting research and trends in digital marketing. The focus this year is on the expanding role of social apps and how people use them. Not only is the report extremely insightful … Continue reading →

]]> http://amitklein.com/2008/11/29/the-razorfish-consumer-experience-report/feed/ 0 http://amitklein.com/2008/09/24/why-twitter-and-problems-with-microblogging/ http://amitklein.com/2008/09/24/why-twitter-and-problems-with-microblogging/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:19:16 +0000 amit http://amitklein.com/?p=190 I was asked recently to take a look at microblogging and suggest improvements to Twitter.  First off… Why Twitter? It’s a difficult question to answer, even for those who do it regularly.  You start off tepidly following your in-the-know co-worker … Continue reading →

]]> http://amitklein.com/2008/09/24/why-twitter-and-problems-with-microblogging/feed/ 0 http://amitklein.com/2008/05/12/recent-links/ http://amitklein.com/2008/05/12/recent-links/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 02:15:52 +0000 amit http://amitklein.com/?p=23 Here are some noteworthy articles from the last week: Google Friend Connect – Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and … Continue reading →

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