Today we’ll take a look at some of the top-selling email templates from Themeforest and see if we can decipher what their designers did right so you can mimic these basic principles in your own designs. Full story

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/graphics/10-design-lessons-from-html-email-templates-that-actually-sell

Merge your existing processes of posting blogs, news, and events with automatically posting to Facebook. Integrating your Sitefinity website to Facebook is now here! Full story

http://basememara.com/cms/blogs/view/10-09-21/Sitefinity_Connector_for_Facebook_is_here.aspx

Having a website is not enough anymore. You must have a blog, news, and even events to keep your visitors coming back for more. So how do you keep up with adding a Twitter to the mix? Well, hitting two birds with one stone of course (one of which being a Twitter bird)! I am going to show how you can merge your existing processes of posting blogs, news, and events with automatically posting to Twitter! Full story

http://basememara.com/cms/blogs/view/10-09-20/Sitefinity_Connector_for_Twitter.aspx

Mozilla released its fourth beta of Firefox 4 on Tuesday, bringing a new feature that addresses one of the biggest challenges in the new era of the browser: reclaiming control over the burgeoning number of tasks that now happen on the Web. Full story

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014570-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Facebook has joined the likes of Yahoo and LinkedInwith the rollout of a new Q&A product called Facebook Questions. While the Q&A format is nothing new on the web, Facebook’s more than 500 million users add an interesting twist to the space, and potentially, create an opportunity for small businesses as the feature evolves. Full story

http://mashable.com/2010/08/22/facebook-questions-small-biz/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Over the last three years, social media marketers have gotten a lot more sophisticated about the programs they deploy and how they’re measured. Platforms like Sysomos and Radian6 have become vital tools in understanding not only the social universe in which you operate, but how that universe responds to your brand. Full story

http://mashable.com/2010/08/20/social-media-monitoring-tools-smarter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader

As smartphone sales continue to soar, more and more developers are focusing their efforts on building applications for mobile devices. Whether it is a native application or a mobile-optimized website, mobile innovation is taking place at a breakneck pace. Full story

http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/mobile-web-app-frameworks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Despite recent improvements, Facebook’s in-site search doesn’t necessarily offer the best way to see such data. However, there are various services that provide a dedicated way to either search Facebook’s 500 million-strong data stream (at least what’s made public), or see what’s “trending” on the site in a way that’s similar to Twitter. Full story

http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/facebook-search-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Public relations specialists were some of the first people to embrace the power of social media, and as a result they are often the ones leading the way in the social space, whether they are consulting with clients from an agency point of view or strategizing on an in-house PR team. Full story

http://mashable.com/2010/08/16/pr-social-media-future/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader

It’s been over 6 months now since I started this blog with the aim of sharing a few ideas, developing my own book content and learning about the social web. As a result, I’ve learnt a few things along the way that I wanted to share with you so that you can apply them to your business if you are using social media or are thinking about using social media in your business. Full story

http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/204388