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Complain to Kristy Bolsinger. She Says ‘Thank You’

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Kristy Bolsinger is the Social Media Marketing Strategist at RealNetworks, primarily for the GameHouse.com team. Her job falls in the online marketing and customer acquisition group — a fairly unique place for the “social media” person to sit. One problem a lot of companies have is deciding who does what ...

Raven Launches New Twitter Tool

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Raven Tools is excited to announce our new Twitter tool, which helps agencies and in-house marketing departments better monitor, manage and report on their Twitter campaigns. Like Facebook, Twitter has become an important, necessary social network for connecting with customers. We’ve done a lot of secret research and development around ...

An Interview with Tony Adam – Senior Manager of Online Marketing at myspace

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Tony Adam is currently a Senior Manager of Online Marketing at myspace where he heads up all aspects of SEO and Viral Marketing. He is also the Founder and Principal of Visible Factors, an Online Marketing agency and Advisor for Ranker. Tony Adam Interview You have a history of working ...

An Interview with Alan K’necht – President of K’nechtology Inc.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

I had the pleasure of meeting one of the industry’s brightest SEO and analytics consultants, Alan K’necht, at PubCon South when I spoke on a panel with him on Actionable Analytics this past March. Not only is Alan a great speaker, but he is very knowledgeable in both analytics, SEO ...

kl.am Closes its Shell

Monday, June 7th, 2010

At Raven, we experiment a lot. We consider our projects as our own version of skunkworks. Sometimes the experiments are driven by mere curiosity, while others are meant to see how far we can push the boundaries of a service. All of our experiments have one common element, problem solving. ...

Raven is iPad Ready

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Raven is built with open Web standards. That means we use modern HTML and CSS techniques, JavaScript, and Canvas, instead of proprietary technologies like Flash. This is a perfect fit for Safari on the iPad, because WebKit on the iPhone OS (the browser rendering engine) is just like us – ...

RavenHunt T-Shirt

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Here’s the t-shirt we’ll be giving away with the RavenHunt contest. It’s modeled by our very own Alyson Woods. The color of the t-shirt is “slate” and it’s made by American Apparel, so it will be super comfy.

An Interview with Topher Kohan – SEO Coordinator for CNN.com

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

I had the pleasure of meeting Topher Kohan in Las Vegas at Pubcon 2009. We didn’t get a chance to talk shop but I instinctively knew that Topher was the kinda guy whose brain I wanted to pick. He is the SEO Coordinator at CNN.com, a news site with astronomical ...

An Interview with Manda Otto – Senior Communications Manager for the NBCF

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Before Christmas we had the pleasure of interviewing Manda Otto. Manda is the Senior Communications Manager for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Describe how you first got started in Internet Marketing. I started managing PPC for an online directory back in 2004. After that it was all for curiosity’s sake. ...

An Interview With Ken Walker and Victoria Edwards of Linkshare

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing both Ken Walker and Victoria Edwards of Linkshare. Victoria works at Linkshare as an SEO/Internet Marketing Specialist and Ken is the Web Producer and Dean of LinkShare University. How did both of you get started in the Internet Marketing industry? Ken: I ...