Welcome to CSS Basics
I stumbled into this. It’s definitely worth sharing and definitely worth reading if you want to do anything productive this weekend and have the time. 18 Chapters that explain CSS to its basics and then some. Enjoy!

http://www.cssbasics.com/

10 Brand New Productivity Tools You Probably Missed
We love being productive 24/7 and sometimes we fail but with the right tools for the right tasks we can succeed. Check these ten tools that were made in 2011 which means up-to-date, trendy and useful.

http://freelancefolder.com/10-brand-new-productivity-tools-you-probably-missed/

How Winning Contests Helped a Startup Beyond the Launch
Although this Startup is a bit different, it’s one nonetheless. I learned to never give up on trying to get free money for your Startup. Extra and free money is ALWAYS welcome in any business.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220564

Facebook Opens Preferred Developer Consultant Fall 2011 Submissions
To all our dearly beloved readers who are developers who didn’t make the cut this past May, here’s your second chance!

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/11/11/facebook-opens-preferred-developer-consultant-fall-2011-submissions/

6 Reasons Great Content Fails
It happens to the best of us: we get creative, develop great content and all of a sudden: it fails to spread. We’re shocked and disappointed and don’t understand, so check this article that the folks from HubSpot were so kind to write to help us creative minds.

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/28691/6-Reasons-Great-Content-Fails.aspx

via cnn.com

Build A Memorable Brand

Occupy wall street works so well because saying it once paints a vivid mental picture and then add the images of the real event, the massive activity on social networks and the consistency of the press coverage and a short period has built a simple protest into one of the first ever a “branded protests” where the activists have unified under one brand idea.

How well does your brand create an immediate mental picture? Does that picture connect directly to the most important part of your brand story and promise to your customers?

Leverage Existing Memes

we are the 99% was an ongoing meme that the occupy wall st folks adopted in order to rapidly spread the message by leveraging common knowledge to make their key point. the 99% always sound powerful and as a result in this case the un-represented 99 are speaking out to take back the power they should wield based on numbers.

Taking  a twist on what people already know is a great way to deepen their relationship with your brand, product, or service. particularly if you hit a deep emotional reality. connecting Americans to the idea that they are part of the group protesting whether they like it or not incites a response at an emotional level and it encourages deeper reflection. What common knowledge or popular content memes can you leverage to drive emotional response?

Be Disruptive

All of this great branding and messaging made no impact untill the people actually started showing up on wall street and then in cities all over the country disrupting the normal flow of day-to-day life and forcing an audience.

We can’t all take to the streets with signs and banners, or pitchforks and torches for that matter but we can look for opportunities to reach large groups with a disruptive message.

Create Community

empowering people who wanted to “make a difference” but didn’t have a clear direction on how to get involved with the occupy movement and providing them with signs, social media content and more allowed the community to stretch beyond the expected liberal borders into a larger group of political idealists.

Does your message have an active hashtag? get on it. getting people talking in an open forum but using your hashtag on twitter is a key part of getting the 99% to carry your message forward.

How will your marketing strategy be inclusive of the social media realm? What tools can you provide for your supporters to re-tweet, like, share on Facebook and Twitter etc. this is the new face of marketing and missing these engagements is a direct path to un-realized potential customers.

Have A Clear Desired Outcome

this is the part the 99% have yet to do right. as marketers it is our job to know exactly why we are doing a marketing activity and offer a direct and easy response process for the people we are reaching to take action in a way that is in line with our desired outcome.

getting lots of attention and press and awareness is great but you must have a clear call to action right behind that awareness otherwise you are missing a big opportunity for revenue.

Facebook Timeline Users Can Now Past Date Photos
Now you can not only time-stamp your status updates but also your photos… IF you have the new Facebook Timeline. If you don’t, then you can wait for more awesome features.

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-timeline-users-can-now-past-date-photos-2011-11

 Five basic tips on merchandising and conversion
Depesh Mandalia from the Econsultancy blog, shares five tips on basic merchandising and conversion. The importance of how online and offline marketing is diverging and every medium is important.

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/7978-10-basic-merchandising-tips-to-increase-sales

Responsive web design from the future
A presentation about how GitHub handles links, the url bar, partial page updates, and explains why I think the HTML5 history API is the most important thing to happen to front end development since Firebug.
http://warpspire.com/talks/responsive/

How to Sell to Grocery Giants Wal-Mart and Whole Foods
Seven simple tips for Entrepreneurs who are aiming to sell to Grocery Giants and are ready to leave the “local-only” business.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/220686

5 Reasons Every Freelance (or Any) Business Should Have A Blog
Six reasons why you, as a freelancer or business owner, should have a blog. As long as you want attention, recognition and drive traffic to your website.
http://www.bkmacdaddy.com/5-reasons-every-freelance-or-any-business-should-have-a-blog/