The browser statistics have been released for December 2009. The stats can be are published monthly atW3CSchools.com. Of note, Chrome continues to grow in usage. Personally, I like Chrome. There are some great features that chrome uses and it’s much faster than Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Below are the stats for December 2009.

NBC just launched a new Social Media campaign for the show “Chuck“.  The premise is that they have created a game using Social Media, to drive mentions of their show and the winner will be the person with the most mentions by the deadline.  The winner will get their photo appear during one of Chuck’s mental flashes according to Reuters and THRFeed.com.

I have never watched chuck.  Nor do I think I will start.  I do however, commend NBC for their efforts in utilizing social media to spread the word and I will monitor how they handle this.  It will be interesting to see if they announce how many mentions they got during the whole campaign.  I can only imagine how crazy some people will be who like the show and want to see their photo in his mental flash.

For my purposes, I will use this as an example of how to use Social Media to your advantage.  It gets people involved, educated about your product, and spreads the word like wildfire.  This is going to be a great case study in how to use social media and frankly I think it will work.  Stay Tuned!

Constant Contact is about to roll out new editor improvements that will enhance your email marketing experience within their system. One of the newest rollouts is the ability to Copy and Paste text from Microsoft Word.

Editor Improvements — Now, you can cut-and-paste from Microsoft® Word and other rich text documents — and your formatting will stay intact. Bullets will stay bullets. Bold will stay bold. Line breaks will stay broken. It’s a great time-saver when you’re importing text from another source.

This is a fantastic improvement and will save you even more time when creating your email newsletter campaigns.  If you are not already a customer of Constant Contact then this should give you a reason…..or how bout getting a Free 60 Day Trial for their email marketing services to see if you really like it.  You won’t, you’ll Love It!

As you are working with your Social Media marketing, you need to consider that Linkedin has some real Search Engine value due to all the content that is on their site.  Use this to your ability.  Here are my Top 10 Tips to making Linked in work within your Social Media Campaign:

1. Consistently use the status message
2. When using the status message, link back to your website or blog
3. Setup your website as a link on your profile
4. Change the default wording from “My Website” to what you might want to show for, like “Website Development”
5. Answer questions within the site and link to sources of your answers.  The links should point to your website.
6. Make sure that your company is listed in the Linkedin Directory.
7. If you have a Wordpress Blog.  Use the plugin application in Linkedin to add that to your profile.
8. Add your Twitter to your Linkedin Profile
9. Social Media is about connecting with people, so be sure to grow your connections on Linkedin.
10. Use the status message to drive your connections to your website.  Don’t overload them or they won’t click over.

Constant Contact email marketing is an ideal way to grow your business and keep in constant communication with your contacts.  Current customers expect to hear from you regarding your products and services and your prospects want to hear from you as they consider using your service.  It just makes sense to utilize Constant Contact’s email marketing services to do this.

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1. Easy to use Email Design Program
2. Many Templates for you to choose from
3. Great tracking for you to see who opened it, who clicked and the number of forwards
4. Ability to import your own custom design
5. Top Notch Customer Support
6. Multiple ways to contact customer support (Twitter, Facebook)
7. Discounts for Non Profit Groups
8. Pricing Starts at $15 per Month
9. Easy Opt Out System for those that don’t want to get your emails
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The browser statistics have been released for November 2009. The stats can be are published monthly at W3CSchools.com. Of note, Chrome continues to grow in usage. Personally, I like Chrome. There are some great features that chrome uses and it’s much faster than Internet Explorer and Firefox.

I like Chrome so much I use not only at work, but also at home on my laptop. Below are the stats for November 2009.

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In a recent story, published by Financial Times, Microsoft is considering paying Print Media Outlets for use of their content on their newest search engine Bing.  This move would force the Print Media Outlets that take the offer to remove their content from Google.  If Microsoft is successfull in this move, assuming that they do in fact move forward with it, Google may be forced to pay similar media outlets for their content, creating a content war within the Print Media.  You could see some high values paid for the content from the major news sources.  While Rupert Murdoch’s New Corp seems to be a part lead in this against Google…..I wouldn’t count them out for taking the money if Google made them a higher offer than Microsoft and Bing.

Microsoft is on this for one reason, and one reason only….they want to hurt the deep pockets of Google.  Google is claiming that their news results bring in little revenue.  I doubt that.  That is just postering to make it seem like this move isn’t going to effect them.

If Microsoft can court the top 5 Print Media Outlets in the country, then I think the Google News section could be doomed, as well as how the income they bring in from the search matches for the content.

Not sure where Yahoo fits in all this.  It seems like that are taking a back seat right now to see how this plays out before they jump in with their thoughts.

With so many newspapers struggling in the current economy, it seems that this might actually breath some life into that industry.  Keep your eye out for a bidding war…this could get interesting.