Hints and Tips: Building Better Cyber Properties

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Hints and Tips to building better cyber properties means adhering to simple but critical concepts. Show me your face! Would you go to a business meeting wearing a hood? No. So, why would you have a picture of anything other than yourself to represent your business on the Net? It’s a funny thing: people like [...]

Social Marketing: When Will it be Business as Usual?

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Social Marketing has come a long way since the advent of social media. In addition, forward leaning companies excited for the potential quickly adapted to the “new fangled” ways of engaging the audience. Blogs, micro blogs, podcasting, aggregation have all, to one degree or another, found acceptance in “business as usual.” Sadly, I am still [...]

Mashable Media and the Ownership of Thought

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Mashable Media: the Times Are a Changing Single streams of media (essentially the opposite of mashable media). From the Gutenberg press to the Rupert Murdoch publishing empire: Break a story and scoop your competition. Do it better and faster to stay on top. This paradigm is changing quickly. Fast forward to today and everyone has [...]

Make Your Blog with Passion!

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Make Your Blog with Passion? That’s the secret ingredient! Today’s post is a wee bit philosophical. Specifically, the philosophy of you and your blog. If you haven’t noticed, there’s enough ideas about “how to do this with your blog” and “what to do with your blog” to keep you reading for a month. But no [...]

Blog Post Comments: What Good are they Anyway?

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Blog post comments have taken a beating of late, or at least I have seen the subject coming up more often. Usually, the discussion or comment revolves around either the chore of writing them or the effort taken to get them. It’s a Valid Bitch(s): They do take effort to write or receive and, at [...]