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Today’s web discovery took me back a few years to my “traditional” media background experience. Back to a college campus in the newspaper office, brainstorming content for each week’s issue.

Our staff produced a weekly installment called “Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down” in which we applauded or degraded events and new happenings around campus.

In many Internet marketing projects, a common goal can be to reach out to digital influencers in the client's target industry. Reaching out to influencers can provide many benefits like backlinks, positive PR, word-of-mouth, and product sales.

I'm often asked the question, "What do you think the next Twitter is going to be?" Until very recently my usual answer was to mention FriendFeed, due to it's powerful aggregation offerings.

Don't like what you see when you Google yourself? Then it's high time you set up a Google profile.

On your profile page you can decide what the world sees when they Google you - who you are, what you look like, where you've lived, where you've worked, and what schools you attended. You can even link to all your other websites and social networking profiles like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. Your profile and photo even show up at the bottom of Google's search results page. Think of it as Google's own Table of Contents to you.

In this week's podcast, the LevelTen panel discuses Twitterviews, the new Contxts service, and discuss if e-mail is dying.

Send Your Business Card Via Text Message
Panelist: Jennifer Conley

Is traditional e-mail on it's way out? John C. Dvorak at PCMAG.com gives us 9 Reasons why E-mail is Dead. In some regards I do agree. It seems that social networking sites have already taken over traditional e-mail on a personal level but what about in the workplace? As John explains between all of the spam, junk and ever-changing email addresses "there is no real way of confirming receipt of an e-mail other than the annoying receipt request." But does social networking have enough credibility to really take over traditional e-mail in the workplace? Is e-mail really dead?

For now:

Friends: "I FaceBook'ed you."
Work: "I emailed you."

9 Reasons E-Mail is Dead

In this week's podcast we discuss,

How to Win in a Recession Like a Ninja
Panelist: Colin Alsheimer

With Social Networking Sites on the rise it is interesting to see how sites differentiate themselves. There are some great niche specific networks pertaining to: the social good, business applications, medical applications and various personal pursuits. With all these options available, I think it is important to focus and to be involved in the networks that offer what you need.

I signed up for Ping.fm today. It allows you to set your status or create a blog and send it to multiple social networking sites such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and several others, all at once. I've found it useful since I just started using Plurk and continue to use Twitter. You can sign up today by using the code "tastyping".

MySpace, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the list goes on; trying to keep up and maintain all my junk accounts friends status got to be a little overwhelming. At any given time I'd have tabs to an array of communication tools and personal blogs just to stay in touch with friends and family, so I decided it was time to consolidate.