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Techcrunch Interviews Digg’s Founder Kevin Rose

Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by admin.

Techcrunch.com sat down with Digg’s founder Kevin Rose for an interesting interview on the state of the company, past decisions and developments and future directions. It’s a bit long but is well worth your time.

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Fun Twitter Video - Laughs Guaranteed!

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by admin.

This video does about as good a job as I’ve seen yet of describing Twitter. Perfect to send your friends who are clueless!

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Google Analytics - Optimal AdWords Campaigns - Google Conversion University

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by ScotRobinson.

This video comes from Google’s Conversion University. Many of these tips are fairly well known, but the video is worth watching to help reinforce your knowledge and there are some tips such as Auto Tagging, optimal positioning, conversion metrics and reporting that will likely be new to you. Enjoy!

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Google Analytics - Bounce Rate: The Simply Powerful Metric

Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by admin.

I recently did a post on Bounce Rate and one of my readers pointed out that there’s a good video by Google by Avinash Kaushik on this subject. Most of the ideas in the video are discussed in my post, but I would definitely recommend that you view this. I strongly recommend that anyone interested in delving further into the world of web analytics visit Avinash Kaushik’s web analytics blog.

Around half-way through the video Avinash mentions that the Bounce Rate on the slide he’s discussing is great, but it’s very difficult to see what it is. I did some stopping and starting of the video to save you the trouble and it turns out that the rate is 31.7%.

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Guy Kawasaki Presentation on How He Uses Twitter

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by ScotRobinson.

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Amazing Home Depot Slow Motion Prank

Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by ScotRobinson.

This video is somewhat off-topic for this blog (okay, maybe VERY!), but from time-to-time I want to simply share things that I find are really cool and I believe you will too. Perhaps we can learn some lessons in business from this. I have some thoughts, but I’ll leave it to you folks to suggest some lessons we can gleam from the video.

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10-20-30 Rule for Effective Presentations

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by ScotRobinson.

I have seen Guy Kawasaki speak a number of times and twice heard him discuss a fun rule for presentations which he calls the 10/20/30 rules. Here’s a video of his presentation:

I have written a related post which I call Stop Wasting our Time with Boring Presentations.

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