Note: This is the first post from Jason Feinberg, MediaShift's new music correspondent. With his background in online marketing, Jason will be sharing his insights into how artists can best utilize new technology in connecting with fans. There was a time when celebrity musicians were positioned as u...

Today is one of these days when I can express better than on most other days why I carefully remain on a spot that is common frontier to several seemingly different worlds: business, marketing, technology, psychology, software development, complex adaptive systems, social media... At the end of the ...

AIG may be the most unpopular bailout ever. With Wall Street. With Main Street. With the people. Probably even with the President. Yet it is absolutely essential. Here is why. AIG created a ton of what I call Confederate Money. They insured crap that was then called gold. When the gold turned back i...

You are not too late to enjoy the benefits of social media — you will never be too late — because the spoils in social media marketing go to the company that can maintain its social media participation over the long haul over the long term. Start now, start later, and I guarantee that if you’r...

Two great Kindle articles awaited me in my feed reader this morning.  First up was a Techmeme with a NY Times post by Roy Bount Jr called, “The Kindle Swindle?� Roy is up in arms over Kindle’s ability to read the text of a book aloud: Every title is an e-book and an audio book rolled into one...

Don’t let the roadblocks get in your way any longer. Social media can work hard for your business if you get started on the right track. These sites enable you to manage your message in ways that elevate your credibility......

A voice. David Beckham can come back or go. Players change. Managers change. Announcers are the key to building a TV audience for sport. What's football without John Madden? What made Chicago baseball so memorable, other than Harry Carey?  Hockey has Don Cherry. Basketball has Dick Vitale. The beau...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 8 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. As bad as financial reporters, analysts and experts were when the market was going up they are worse when it's going down. Let's start with what we know. Money is a store of value but trillions ...

When I look around me, I do not really the see the effects of the current economic recession, which begs me to ask myself the question of whether this recession actually exists. But when I read around the interwebs, it is obvious that my business has been largely isolated from the recession, which d...

Running a large institutional website is frustrating. Your site is often held back by internal politics and bureaucracy. Let me show you 10 ways to cut through the crap and get results. My recent post '10 harsh truths about corporate websites' generated a huge number of comments both on my own blog ...