Tweet Since moving to Chicago, I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Aaron Goldman, one of the leaders in digital marketing in the Midwest…and soon to conquer the rest of the English-speaking world with the launch of his book, Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google. Aaron is a board member of the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association as well as the founder and principal at Connectual, a digital marketing consulting and matchmaking firm that helps with practice development, recruiting, and partner sourcing.

Tweet This article originally appeared on MediaPost and is an early preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content from Paramount Books. Put yourself in the shoes of a bi-lingual or Spanish-preferring U.S. Hispanic and try searching in Spanish on Google, Yahoo or MSN and what do you find? A good portion of the results, sometimes approaching 50%, come from sites based in Mexico, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking countries. Let’s look at some examples I found recently on the first page

Tweet This article originally appeared on MediaPost and is an early preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content from Paramount Books. In a recent report from Pew Hispanic Center, U.S. Hispanics represented over 50% of the U.S. population growth since 2000. In our current economic climate, one would think that that be the kind of growth that marketers would aggressively seek out. While Hispanic media investment overall has grown considerably, especially television, the online ad segment has under-indexed relative to

Tweet This article originally appeared on iMediaConnection. John Battelle, CEO of Federated Media and author of “The Search,” chats with iMedia about Google, privacy issues and the future of digital. Since publishing his groundbreaking book “The Search” three years ago, John Battelle has shifted his attention to his new company, Federated Media, which aggregates blogs into a conversational media platform where brands can advertise. As CEO, Battelle has led the company on a mission to support independent website authors and audiences by connecting them to

Tweet I am in the process of reviewing John Battelle’s book The Search and rediscovering how it stands out as a classic in a world with too many marketing books that rehash the same dribble. Check out this quote from page 249 that forecast the notion of “cloud computing.” (Remember, this book came out in 2006 before the concept was getting so much press.) According to many leading-edge computer scientists and theorists, the Web is in the process of becoming the next great computing platform