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Digital Consultant links for August 6th through August 8th

These are my links for August 6th through August 8th:

Summer SEO – Use The Time For An SEO Health Check – More great tips from Hallam Internet on using the August lull to tweak your website to make sure those all important keywords are well displayed in all the right places on your site.
Google to allow trade marks as keywords across Europe – A big shift for those doing pay-per-click Google advertising, as trademark names, from Sept 14, can now be used in most international territories. This means retailers selling branded products can truly begin to cash in.
Big digital ambitions may be brewing at Starbucks – Starbucks have always been ahead of the game in their digital marketing, but a new twist will see the coffee stores in US and Canada competing with ISP portal to offer a channel of new, entertainment and retail content, plus unlimited wifi access in their stores (can we have this in the UK soon please?)
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10 reasons you need a digital marketing strategy – Digital marketing legend Dave Chaffey's survey shows a staggering 31% of marketers have a digital strategy, and the rest do digital marketing without a strategy.

These are my links for March 29th through March 30th:

BBC – Research and Development: The Mythology Engine – representing stories on the web – A very interesting article on a new BBC R&D experiment into the 'mythology engine', basically an online way of following the story universe of long-running drama. I could have done with this lately when I was trying to work out how to catch up on many gaps years of Eastenders storylines (answer: you can't. Wikipedia non-linear character profiles next best bet). I had no idea BBC was researching these kind of transmedia storytelling concepts – very much look forward to an eventual roll out.
Crossing the digital threshold – DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES – This is an article I wrote for Arts Professional magazine for their 'digital opportunities' edition. It's about a current client, Threshold Studios (a media training organisation) and how they are meeting challenges of entering the digital space for both comms, marketing and training their beneficiaries. Some other good articles in the magazine too including an experiment with Twitter as a social tool by Pilot Theatre. This content is usually behind a paywall so have a look at it quickly…
Google wins AdWords trademark case – There seems to be quite a bit of wrangling going on with copyright holders trying (rightfully) to protect use of their trademark whilst (wrongly) restrict others to use their trademark name. This ruling ensure that all words – trademarked or otherwise – are fair game in the online advertising space.