While there's undeniably tremendous opportunities for growing your business and brand on Twitter, it can also be a VIP pass to high profile figures - including athletes. With the Olympic games in full swing, I've compiled a list of some of the top 2010 USA Olympians who are actively tweeting their experience in Vancouver.

In these lean times advertisers must ensure they get a good return on every advertising dollar spent. Print advertising is often the most difficult to evaluate impact but with a little thought, it becomes easy, especially if you are using your website the way you should.

David McKillen WebStrategies Inc.

Here's the scenario: You're using Google Analytics and have been assigned the task of separating a slew of different traffic sources. This includes PPC, Organic, Direct, and Referral. The first three are very straight forward: a new profile with a basic include filter. However for referral, you need to get more specific. In this case, you want to breakdown individual affiliate referral sites. Once you've done that, you want to categorize them based on Daily Deal sites, coupon sites, etc.

You can make a difference even just by making Google code available on your site

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. It's easy to sit back and almost ignore the news reports. In most cases neither you nor people you know have been directly affected, however, as of this moment, estimates of the numbers killed in the Haitian earthquake range from 50,000 to 200,000. Did you know that's about the population of Richmond, VA? It might be a cliche at this stage but even $1 can help and might be the difference in saving another Life. You can join recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist earthquake victims and your donation will help disaster victims rebuild their lives and their communities.

Years ago, the internet was kind of this untapped void that we were all excited about. As industry, business, and culture have absorbed more and more of the internet into our daily life and processes, we have a better sense of what the internet might be able to do for us.

Many (and by now I HOPE most) sites have some form of web analytics implemented; be it Clicktale, Webtrends, Yahoo, or the ever popular Google Analytics. Many business owners or internal marketers speak of their web analytics like a grandmother speaks of her new computer: "It's looks complicated. What do I do with it?" For something that's free and relatively easy to install, it's no wonder so many have it. The reality is most don't harness its true power, but only scratch the surface - the equivalent of using your brand new Macbook Pro to only check Facebook.

Admittedly I’m a big fan of Google, and I’ve been following the story about how Google might exit China because of China’s restrictions on the internet. While I understand what China wants to do, I certainly don’t agree with it. After all, America is the best and part of that “best” is free speech – and unrestricted access to the internet.