Examples of ad agency blogs. Review and decide which of them really “gets it” when it comes to social media. Pick-up ideas for your own blog.

58 ad agency blogs have been submitted to Fuel Lines. Vote for the best agency blog for the month of November. The winner will be featured on Fuel Lines throughout the month of December and included in the voting for ad agency blog of the year.

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These are the ad agency blogs submitted for the month of November:

1. AB&C blog, Aloysius Butler & Clark,Wilmington, DE
2. Acquity Group blog, Chicago, IL
3. ACS Creative, ACS Creative agency, Fairfax, VA
4. Adverspew blog, Perich Advertising + Design, Ann Arbor, MI
5. Amnesia Blog, Amnesia Razorfish, Sydney, Australia
6. Avenue 25 advertising & design, Phoenix, AZ
7. B2 | Bill’s Blog, Mintz & Hoke Communications Group, Avon, CT
8. Beloved Experiences, Beloved Experiential Agency, Orlando, FL
9. Bergman Group, Bergman Group agency, Glen Allen, VA
10. Brain, the Nail agency, Providence, RI
11. Brainstorm, Brainstorm agency, Indianapolis, IN
12. BroganBlog, Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing, Birmingham, MI and Cary, NC
13. clickTRUE blog, Singapore
14. Confluent Forms Blog, North Hampton, MA
15. Cowie and Fox Blog, Vancouver, BC
16. CUKER agency blog, Solana Beach, CA
17. Dana Communications blog, New York, NY
18. DDB agency’s Strategy blog, New York, NY
19. don’t drink the kool-aid blog, bg creative, San Diego, CA
20. Enviral Marketing blog, BGT Partners, Miami, FL
21. Fusionizer, Fusion Advertising, Dallas, TX
22. Gigantic, Gigantic Ideas, New York, NY
23. Healthy Conversations, Trajectory agency, Morristown, NJ
24. Ideas for a Smarter, Faster World, Brunner agency, Pittsburgh, PA
25. Integrated Branding Blog | MOVEO agency, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
26. Level Blog, Level, San Luis Obispo, CA
27. Market Smarter blog, M is For Marketing, Decatur, GA
28. Marketing | Demand Creation, Logarithmic Impact, Millburn, NJ
29. Marketing Home Products, Kleber & Associates, Atlanta, GA
30. Marketing Your Hospital, TotalCom Communications, Tuscaloosa/Huntsville, AL
31. Media Two Point {OH}!, Media Two Interactive, Raleigh, NC
32. Methodical Madness, The Duffy Agency, Malmo, Sweden
33. Moveo Integrated Blog, Moveo Integrated Branding, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
34. My Creative Team, Charlotte, NC
35. One Eleven Interactive blog, Brooklyn, NY
36. Outside In Banking, Michael Flora & Associates, Troy, MI
37. Point of View, Point to Point agency, Cleveland, OH
38. PUSH-n-PULL, The Cyphers Agency, Annapolis, MD
39. Red Door Buzz, Red Door Interactive, San Diego, CA
40. re:group agency blog, Ann Arbor, MI
41. RIESTER BLOG,  RIESTER, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City
42. Shared iDiz, iDiz Incorporated, Indianapolis, IN
43. Sound Bytes, Mason, Inc. Bethany, CT
44. TechMarketingBlog, Jacobs Agency, Chicago, IL
45. The Adams Group blog, Columbia, SC
46. The Blue Fire Notebook, Pilot Light Agency, Dallas, TX
47. The Boomerang Table, 160over90 agency, Philadelphia, PA
48. The Core Nation | Rants, Core-Create, Inc. Somerset, NJ
49. The Furnace, Firehouse, Dallas, TX
50. The Lint Screen, Ames Scullin O’Haire, Atlanta, GA
51. The Martino Flynn Blog, Pittsford, NY
52. The Side Note, Weise Communications, Denver, CO
53. Villing & Company, South Bend, IN
54. We Play in Traffic, ESW Partners, Chicago, IL
55. WeBlog2 – Notes from the Edge, Kuno Creative, Avon, OH
56. Why Moms Rule, BOHAN Advertising | Marketing, Nashville, TN
57. Winstanley Partners, Winstanley Partners agency, Lenox, MA
58. TV Is Not Dead, Ad Partners, Inc, Tampa, FL

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Very handy list of ad agency blogs. And they wonder why marketing folks always look tired. It's all this reading!

About a year ago, as Thanksgiving 2008 drew near, I wrote an article about a phenomenon that I dubbed the turducken disconnect. The full title was The Turducken Disconnect: An SEM Fable for the Holidays and the main point, hidden among some seasonal yarn spinning, was this:

If you are A. selling things online, and B. trying–through paid search or organic search–to get people to come to your site to buy those things, then we can reasonably assert C: someone who searches for one of those things and clicks on your link in search results should land on a page featuring the item they were seeking.

I went on to say–by way of example–that if you sell turducken and someone clicks on your paid search ad for turducken, your site should greet them with a turducken. It does not have to be a talking turducken. It doesn’t even need to be a specially-priced turducken (although that could be a good way to convert first-time visitors into first time buyers). The point is, your traffic from the search term “turducken” should be met with turducken, not sausages or fish stew, regardless of how mouth-watering those other items might be.

I came up with my name for this disconnect–surely one of the most persistent black holes for digital marketing dollars–during my adventures in pre-holiday shopping last year, looking for a product I had only just heard about: turducken (boneless turkey stuffed with a duck that is stuffed with a chicken/hen–seriously, if you think I’m making this up, just Google it).

A year later, a lot more people seem to have heard of this dish and I tip my hat to the online purveyors of this gastronomic extravaganza. Why? Because a recent non-scientific survey–conducted by me–shows that 100% of paid Google search results for turducken now lead to turducken. If only the same thing could be said for knitted gloves. Yes, you guessed it, my recent non-scientific survey of search results for this seasonal item revealed some disconnects, including one retailer who really should know better.

Notice how I keep using the word should in this post? That’s because search results should lead to items sought. It’s really not optional unless you are an over-funded brand that strives to appear whimsical. All other online businesses know they are paying good SEO or PPC money to get search results in front of consumers. But whatever you pay to achieve that search result you waste if you present visitors with a page that doesn’t have what they are looking for.

Please tell me if you think I’m wrong here, but I reckon the vast majority of consumers who search for products don’t spend more than a second or two digging around for the item if they don’t see it on your site the instant they get there. I would further assert that this holds true even if you are a super cool brand name. When I Google “knitted gloves” and click a link to “Knitted Gloves at Super Cool Brand” you cannot, however cool you are, assume that my real intent is to browse for shoes and hats at SuperCoolBrand dot com. (Okay, I guess you can make that assumption if you’re prepared to wager search dollars on it, but I think it’s a poor bet.)

So, as the holiday shopping season starts to heat up, why not take a moment to make sure your search campaigns–as well as your display and affiliate and email campaigns–are landing people in the right places, with messaging that matches the expectations those campaigns are setting. After all, when you get a match, it can be a beautiful thing (and sometimes a tasty one as well).

(In the interest of full disclosure, I do not own stock in any company that makes, grows, breeds, or sells turducken or its component creatures, but I do work for a company whose product automates the matching of site content to search results.)

One of these days I'm going to have to actually buy a #turducken.

How to Lose Customers: A one-act, two-scene play performed in three tweets

I'm thinking this guy had one too many unpleasant experiences at the Post Office.

Monster is the epicenter of connecting people and jobs and great careers.  We're building a team of social media zealots to help us help others find work, map their careers, connect with professional mentors, and more!  We are seeking candidates not based on the number of years of experience, but candidates who possess a demonstrable skill and outstanding character to hunt, gather, and share innovative content that engages Monster with employers, job seekers and anyone interested in the world of work.

Proof that Social Network Ninja is not a role in a fantasy game. Unfortunately the final paragraph of this job advert is a bit of a buzz kill: "There is no relocation assistance offered for this position. Candidates must be willing and able to report to 5 Clock Tower Place, Maynard, MA on a daily basis." Come on Monster, soc-net ninjas are virtual beings. We work 24/7 from wherever we happen to be, not in an office.

At an event in Pennsylvania earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden supported last-mile broadband on an Obama administration "rural America tour."

"Getting broadband to every American is a priority for this administration," he told the crowd.

The application period for the first wave of funding for rural broadband opened on July 15 and will close Aug. 14.  Awards will be announced in September.

Mainly posted this to test posterous on the new location: socnetninja.com. But also to remind people that the Obama administration is serious about changing America for the better, like getting affordable broadband to the 62% of Americans who, like me, don't have it yet.

Select text, video, music or photos from any web page and post it instantly to your posterous, just by clicking a special bookmark.

Just had to test this, and Yes, it works. Very handy.