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Content Marketing
Bloggin’ Ain’t Easy! Even with Vox
Update: The Vox platform shut down in 2010. As of recent, I’m giving a lot of thought to providing more documentation and even some public speaking on blogging. Why? Bloggin ain’t easy! Companies realize this… putting yourself ‘naked’ out on the web may or may not be a good strategy. Beyond the strategy and the content, though, is the technology.…
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Content Marketing
Blog Tag: 5 Secrets about Me
Shel Israel has blog-tagged me. The game is to tell five secrets about yourself and then link to five other people you know and then they have to tell five things you probably don’t know about them. Ophidiophobia: That’s me. Can’t stand them! I joked that if I ran into a snake, I’d throw my kids at it and run…
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Content Marketing
Educate Your Readers
We all started somewhere! I was talking to a friend tonight about Social Networking and my future in the Industry. I had a fantastic, inspirational lunch with good friend, Pat Coyle, last week. I’ve always been a technologist… jack of all trades, master of none… until recent. The last year I’ve really focused my attention on the evolution of the…
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Content Marketing
I’m an SOB (And Proud of It)!
Woohoo! I’m an SOB. Successful and Outstanding Blog(ger). SOB is a great program started by Liz Strauss at Successful Blog. It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced blogger or brand new… Successful Blog is a fantastic resource. And who can argue with her Blog’s taste in SOBs? Not me! Thanks, Successful Blog!
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Content Marketing
Firefox winning the Browser War
Taking a look at recent market share for browsers provides some insight into who is winning and losing the wars. Firefox continues to build momentum, Safari is creeping upwards, and Internet Explorer is losing ground. I’d like to comment on the three with my ‘theories’ of what is occurring. Internet Explorer After destroying Netscape Navigator, IE really became the gold…
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Content Marketing
Every Home Office Needs One!
A little over a year ago (2005) I was doing quite a bit of consulting on the side and needed to get some new hardware around the home to handle it. I purchased a new computer, new netgear wireless router and wireless cards… and the best investment was my LinkStation. The LinkStation connects directly to my wireless router and has…
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Analytics & Testing
The Page View will not Die
I respect Steve Rubel, but I’m not in agreement with his current post stating the imminent demise of the page view by 2010. Steven states: These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page – like Gmail or the Google Reader. This eliminates the…
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PersonalDNA – Personality Profile
A friend of mine absolutely despises personality tests. I actually like them, but don’t feel too comfortable basing decisions upon them. I’ve had employers that utilize the testing to develop teams and to understand how the people on that team will interact with them. Being ‘officially’ trained by Development Dimensions International, I feel comfortable reviewing personality tests and not utilizing…
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Content Marketing
Relaunch!
The ol’ theme was starting to get a little boring for me, so I decided to throw caution to the wind and really soup up the site. I started off with the Squible beta theme and tweaked it out totally. I even added the Google Video bar, it does a search of random sets of tags from Google Video. You’ll…
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My Happiness Manifesto
Hugh MacLeod at GapingVoid.com had a great post today asking folks for their ‘manifestos’. Thanksgiving inspired me to write mine on happiness. Here’s what I wrote and what Hugh posted (with a couple grammatical edits and Hugh’s wonderful illustration!): Our culture is inundated with messages that lead us down a path of self-destruction. Happiness is equated with things we do…
