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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007When I saw the following “motivational” poster for Blogging, I would have sworn it was yet another brilliant creation of the folks at Despair.com. But no, it wasn’t. It’s part of a home-made series by Ishkur. Classic!
Hat tip to Ilker.
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30 Tips to Increase Traffic at Your Blog
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips–a blog that focuses on providing daily tips to bloggers to keep those creative juices flowing–has listed 30 results from his reader survey on tips to increase traffic to one’s blog.
They vary from the obvious–create valuable content and comment on related blogs–to ideas on social networking and building community on […]
Why proposals fail, a top 10 list you don’t want to be on
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Jim and I have been working with Ben Yoskovitz (who also blogs with Des, Jeremy, and I at b5). Ben is a sharp guy and has skills that keep Jim and I in line (read guys with lots of great ideas … sometimes harebrained ideas though). Ben told us that he was writing up a […]
Needed: Innovative Books On Internet Marketing
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007This is year 3 that my friend Alex Brown will be teaching an innovative undergrad class at the University of Delaware. Infotech Applications in Marketing and is probably one of the few of its kind that is required for marketing majors. In addition to presenting the lastest interactive strategies, including social media/blogs and search, students […]
Much Ado About Pork
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007I almost have to wonder if the National Pork Board is practicing brilliant, subversive marketing.
If you haven’t heard, the NPB is suing a blogger. (Seems like the best stories always start out that way.) Jennifer Laycock, the blogger behind The Lactivist Breastfeeding Blog, has been threatened with a lawsuit for her t-shirt promoting breastfeeding that […]
Blogging Article for Innkeepers
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007To promote the fact I’ll be speaking at the next Maine Innkeeper’s Conference, the group asked me to write an article on blogging for their newsletter. (PDF, 1.3MB)
There’s also an article in there on podcasting as well.
Technorati Tags: Innkeeper, LodgingInnkeeper, Lodging
MySpace could be YourSpace too
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007What site has atrocious design, usability issues, a frustratingly restrictive web page creation platform, and countless junk/spam/abandoned profiles, yet the highest number of pageviews out of any other site? Why, MySpace of course!
MySpace.com is a slice of humanity - a very big slice. With tens of millions of users (and most of them NOT teenagers), […]
Want a Traffic Spike? Link to Google’s Blog.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007This morning I wrote a post on my blog called “Bush No Longer a Miserable Failure, Claims Google.” It was in reaction to Google’s new algorithm that defuses “Google Bombs.”
At the bottom I linked to the post on Google’s blog that goes into more detail about what they did and why. (Whoops! I did it […]
Is Cuppy’s trying to stifle bad PR about them?
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Sean Kelly, who writes the Franchise Pick blog for b5media (where I am also and author and channel editor), has a pretty disturbing, if true, post about the coffee franchise Cuppy’s (formerly Java Jo’z).
The gist is that few months ago Scoble wrote about his brother Ben’s problems with the franchise. A tempest ensued over allegations […]
Understanding Second Life (or trying to)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007A just published Fortune article makes the point (quoting IBM CEO Sam Palmisano) that the 3-D virtual world of Second Life is not just “eye candy” and may represent the “next phase of the Internet’s evolution.”
But as Alex Manchester puts it on the Melcrum blog: “… the waters are definitely still very, very muddy and […]