Feedback is crucial to growth as individuals, and to improving the collective knowledge and performance within us as organizations. Nevertheless, feedback is often something that we as managers, and indeed as organizations, are not very good at. The Google+ hashtag (or ‘pound sign’ if you’re American!). There to help you find similar content, make your content more discover-able and give your content more context… but how about helping your content get more exposure in the organic SERPs? No? Well, yes actually! If you have been working with a brand or product for a long time, it can feel like all of your content ideas sound the same. Content diversity is an absolute MUST in social media marketing and for blogs as well. What do you do when you get content writer’s block? Back in February after my grandmother passed, I wrote a blog post rehashing some of my favorite memories. A eulogy of sorts. Several months after writing that post, I received a message on LinkedIn from a relative in Maryland, which has lead me to unexpected places. After the middle of last month, Google quietly shut down the page verification request process. Previously, page administrators with at least 1,000 followers could complete a short form and receive an official page verification, which included a shiny checkmark badge next to the brand name. Joe Pulizzi's new book, "Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break Through the Clutter, and Win More Customers By Marketing Less," has been released. Ric Dragon explains why it's an important book for marketers. In working with site owners and developers, one of the most common requests is “Can you tell me which users to block”? But while Impermium has been providing real-time account risk ratings for years, we actually try to answer this question “No.”