Digg competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social media”.

Users can now set up Mixx community sites on their own subdomains (see ours here). Administrators have the power to brand them visually, post editorial content, and even make some revenue off advertisements. Others can join as members and begin submitting items as they would regularly on Mixx. All submissions (stories, images, and videos) can be made just to a particular community, or to the Mixx site as a whole as well.

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Though anyone can register a Gmail account for free without an invite, some people are still selling Gmail invitations on eBay.

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AdWords has been offering Seminars for Success in cities across the country to very positive reviews. Delivered by industry professionals hand-picked by Google, the seminars are one day courses offered solely to help advertisers get the most out of AdWords.

Now, as recently announced on the Inside AdWords blog, we’re joining AdWords in offering Google Analytics Seminars for Success. Similar to the AdWords seminars, these are led by the most knowledgeable professionals from our very own Google Analytics Authorized Consultant program, with an agenda and content created by both the seminar leaders and our own Google Analytics team. The first seminars are now open for registration and are beginning on March 25 in both San Francisco and Raleigh-Durham.

We’ll be offering two different levels of Analytics Seminars:

Introduction & User Training - designed for those who want an introduction to Google Analytics, setting up Analytics, exploring the user interface, and analyzing reports.
Here is a list of topics that will be covered:

• Introduction to Google Analytics
• Reports Interface
• Administrative Interface
• The Importance of Goals
• Real-world Case Studies
• What Do You Want To Track?
• Optimizing AdWords and PPC Campaigns
• Introduction to Experimentation and Tracking

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Advanced Technical Implementation - designed for more technical users who want to do advanced testing, tracking, and code customization.
Topics include:

• Successful Web Analytics Approaches
• Creating A Data Driven Culture
• Google Analytics Overview
• Goals and Funnels
• Advanced Profile/Filter Combos
• Advanced Tracking
• Code Customizations
• Introduction to Urchin Software

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Analytics and AdWords Seminars will be coming to the following cities in the next few months:

Analytics
March 25 - San Francisco Bay Area - Analytics: Introduction & User Training
March 25 - Raleigh - Analytics: Introduction & User Training
March 26 - San Francisco Bay Area - Analytics: Advanced Technical Implementation
March 26 - Raleigh - Analytics: Advanced Technical Implementation

AdWords
March 24 - San Francisco Bay Area - AdWords: Beginner & Intermediate
April 7 - San Diego - AdWords: Beginner & Intermediate
April 28 - Dallas - AdWords: Beginner & Intermediate

Sign up 7 days before the seminar date and we’ll even throw in a $50 AdWords advertising credit. (View the terms and conditions of advertising credits.) You’ll find more information about these seminars, including course outlines and registration instructions at http://www.google.com/awseminars. And of course, if you’d like to be informed when

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I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just “yourusername@gmail.com.” Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail:

• Append a plus (”+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
• Insert one or several dots (”.”) anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)

For me, the real value in being able to manipulate your email address is that it makes it really easy to filter on those variants. For example you could use hikingfan+bank@gmail.com when you sign up for online banking and then set up a filter to automatically star, archive or label emails addressed to hikingfan+bank. You can also use this when you register for a service and think they might share your information. For example, I added “+donation” when I gave money to a political organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that address, I know how they got it. Solution: filtered to auto-delete.

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