4/16 Latest Links

The web’s ever changing and the action never stops.  Here’s a few of our favorite recent links from around the world courtesy of our media network.  This week’s links run the gamut from finding VS funding for your social enterprise to the importance of "reputation grooming" to resources for writing website copy, marketing your business online and paying attention to your customers.  Plus a special lesson from Trent Reznor.  Check everything out, but be careful-you just might learn something! 

• Social entrepreneurs: there is still venture capital out there:
  • http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2009/sb20090330_622387.htm
• Slide and tutorials from the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco
  • http://blog.slideshare.net/2009/04/05/catch-up-with-web-20-expo-from-your-desk/
• Susan Mernit talks about reputation grooming and it’s value:
  • http://www.susanmernit.com/blog/2009/03/what-is-reputation-grooming-an.html
• Serving Your Fans: The Trent Reznor Case Study:
  • http://www.indiemusictech.com/music_marketing_for_indie/2009/03/serving-your-fans-the-trent-reznor-case-study.html
• Resources for the wayward online marketer:
  • http://newmarketinglabs.com
• Marketers Moving to Social Media:
  • http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1006989
• How to write website copy: 
  • http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Write-Effective-Website-Content&id=1929235