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Here's my take on the incessant tweeting of motivational quotes intended to inspire followers.

Almost certainly, there are two words that have been drilled into you as important since the day you started talking. Now, research shows these words have surprising power over how others perceive you.

Essential reading for the weekend...

Here's what we discovered this week, with my own new content below:

Do you want more clicks on your tweets? Or, on your marketing links in emails or ads? Or, if you are a blogger, journalist, or content writer, could you do with more traffic to your articles? A new study by researchers at the BI Norwegian…

Here's a story within a story, and it begins and ends with my (mostly virtual) friend Brian Solis, author of The End of Business as Usual. Solis began things by posting a photo of my book on Posterous, tagging it as an item on his summer…

Hiring a social media manager or a salesperson? Maybe you should have the finalists' brains scanned in an fMRI. A larger orbital prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with decision-making and cognitive processing, has been…

Those of us involved in social media know that people love to talk about themselves. They seemingly enjoy sharing the trivial, the personal, and occasionally the weird, details of their lives. Sometimes they overshare - as a longtime…

Are you overlooking a way to personalize your ads that goes far beyond the usual "Dear Roger" salutation? In my recent article, Put Your Customer in the Ad, I mentioned that LinkedIn was using profile pictures for targeted ads. Since…

Book Review: Zarrella's Hiearchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas by Dan Zarrella I like Dan Zarrella's approach to social media. Amidst a horde of social media gurus, experts, mavens, and…