Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Configuring an Internal PC for External Access
With the adoption of firewalls and routers, connecting to another computer via the Internet has become a real challenge. If you’d like to configure your computer so external access is possible, there are some in-depth configuration changes that you need…
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ProBlogger: Four Blogging Mistakes I Should Have Avoided
There’s no shortage of blogging books hitting the shelves lately, but few are as grounded and actionable as ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. As someone who’s been blogging for…
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Why Do TV Commercials Like Billy Mays, ShamWow, and HeadOn Work?
The television is often on in our home, but it’s usually background noise. If I do watch television, it’s usually the Discovery Channel. Today is a weekday, so I roamed the channels a few times. After a while, we just…
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3 Essential Requirements for any Web Application
More and more, I find myself asking vendors and companies the same questions over and over. If you’re thinking about developing your own application, these are 3 features that need to be integrated from day one in your application if…
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Testing Leadership with Telecommuting
This evening I met with Pat Coyle and other Smoosiers at Pat’s Open House at Smaller Indiana Headquarters. 1.webp” align=”right” title=”Lalita Amos” width=”183″ height=”183″ class=”alignright size-medium tie-image2353″ />One great discussion I had was with Lalita Amos, a Leadership Coach and…
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Firefox 3 Review, Robots, Add-ons and Tweaks
It’s the second day with Mozilla Firefox 3 and I’ve already dislodged Safari from my dock. The browser is quite fast (I’m guessing until all my popular add-ons and a few security updates arrive). I believe it’s worth the upgrade…
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MBP: Micro-Blogging Provider and Protocol
It’s time!1.webp” align=”right” title=”Micro-blogging platforms” width=”148″ height=”260″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image2319″ /> You folks may have read about the tiff a while back between Robert Scoble and Twitter. Scoble did meet with Twitter and resolve the situation. Some folks are speaking…