Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup

Just to let you know that if you are in driving distance of Baltimore, and you use, contribute or are thinking about making the switch to WordPress, I’m organizing the first ever Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup. It will be on Thursday, Aug 23rd at 6pm at the Metropolitan Coffeehouse & Wine Bar in Federal Hill (902 [...]

Guerrilla Marketing Techniques that Anyone Can Do

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There are lots of blogs out there that instruct on the best ways to write more effectively or how to tweak your sites for best search engine results. Some folks even go really hardcore and instruct you on a variety of methods to build your site. Very few people, if any, will tell you the [...]

Lots of People Hiring at WordCamp

Just a note, there are lots of folks hiring at WordCamp. b5media, Facebook, Yahoo, Dreamhost. Here’s a picture of the whiteboard. Please feel free to dive further into these jobs if you’re in the market. Notably, a number of these are b5media jobs so give me a shout if you’re a sysadmin, developer or a [...]

Questions at WordCamp: Is it Hard for You to Keep Blogging?

Last year, while at WordCamp, I was posting live coverage of the event for the Blog Herald. This year, I’m here representing b5media along with most of the tech team and Jeremy Wright, our CEO. Good times. I figured I’d post about WordCamp again but I just don’t find any inspiration in giving you the [...]

Sink or Swim: Six Companies that Might Make It

This past Friday, I had the privilege of being on a “Future of the Web” panel at New Media Nouveaux outside of Washington, D.C. It was a lot of fun and certainly a necessary kind of event if the capital region is going to make any real strides in the area of social media. One [...]

Alternatives to Technorati

I’m sitting in a session here at New Media Nouveaux which is geared toward PR types and marketers. A statement is made by one panelist that using blogs effectively is about knowing what people are talking about and suggests Technorati as the source of market research. While Technorati is A source, a better idea would [...]

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