I know most of you will just scan the following list, but that’s okay…thanks for being there and reading what I’ve written for the last year.
I especially enjoyed these posts of mine for their ‘aha’ effect, or the frankness of my opinion. The Marketing Eye series was probably my favorite effort of the year.

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Great horse-before-the-cart thinking from Mike Boyink:
Just a Thought…
…If the folks responsible for writing content for a website obsessed over their work like the folks worried about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) then the SEO guys probably wouldn’t be needed….

It’s an annual ritual for webmasters: reading Jakob Nielsen’s annual Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. The list seems very, very basic at first, but there are a lot of B2B marketers making these mistakes:

Bad Search
PDF Files for Online Reading
Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
Non-Scannable Text
Fixed Font Size
Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
Anything [...]

Now that IE7 is widely installed, users may come across your website and get a warning something like this:

Russell at Info-Commerce Group does the due-diligence about this new feature and shares in his weekly newsletter: Go Phish!
Essentially, the tool runs off a blacklist. The blacklist is based on verifying if the URL is registered [...]

We’ve all seen it before. It’s the cartoon where the the customer orders the swing and it starts something like this picture of “How the customer explained it”:
Of course, the order is doomed from the start. The internal process is going to wreck it.
Back somewhere in this blog I posted this cartoon after much Googling, [...]

Robert Rosenthal at his blog Freaking Marketing posts a little rant titled: Why Most Business-to-Business Marketing Campaigns Are Uninspired Or Just Plain Awful.
So what’s he gotta say? The truth, pretty much. He uses B2C marketing as a foil to compare B2B marketing.

“B-to-B marketers view themselves differently — Ask the CEO of the soda company what [...]

I was just sitting at my desk opening my mail. There was a small envelope from Google.
Obviously a Christmas card. What would Google send? A reward for sending thousands of dollars their way and helping inflate the value of their stock?
Nope. Just a rather plain card with ‘Happy Holidays’ in a couple dozen languages. [...]

An anonymous reader alerted me to a new white paper on the future of vertical search:
“The Emerging Opportunity in Vertical Search” (your pick: register-first or direct to the PDF) by SearchChannel & Slack Barshinger.
The paper starts with survey results, building up the case for vertical search, which SearchChannel sells software to enable. That’s right, [...]

This week I am sharing some of my favorite software gizmos from my Web-marketing toolbox.Today’s gizmo: PowerDesk from VCOM.com Tasks: Manage your filesCost: $39 (free shareware version, too)Get it here: Power Desk Pro (aff)
I LOVE POWERDESK! There are a gazillion Windows shareware utilities, but they often do jobs that only need to be done once [...]

This week I am sharing some of my favorite software gizmos from my Web-marketing toolbox.This time I’m going to pimp for a couple new gizmos I’ve recently learned of. They don’t have a spot in the toolbox yet, but they are fun to play with.
Kuler is an online tool from Adobe that lets you play [...]