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Your Resumé is Causing Hiring Companies to Laugh at You
You know that companies are laughing at you right now, don’t you? It’s true. For a variety of reasons, you shoot for the moon and hope for the stars and hope that someone will be stupid enough to hire you. Why? Lots of reasons but it boils down to five main reasons. You Didn’t Read…
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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…
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Guerrilla Marketing Techniques that Anyone Can Do
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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New Media Nouveaux Today
I’m privileged to be on a panel today with Sean Gorman from Fortius One and Brian Williams from Viget Labs who was behind Squidoo. The topic is the future of the web and I’m looking forward to speaking about some of the things I’ve been tossing around in my head. I’m really honored to share…
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The Problem with RSS
RSS is the lifeblood of bloggers. It is the means to unspeakable content distribution to a wide variety of places. It is the means to an end that is widespread readership. Techcrunch has 461k readers who read the content via readers such as Bloglines, Google Reader, mobile RSS readers such as the Viigo app we…
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Music Channel Launch
I’m about 3 days late on jumping on the music channel launch bandwagon at b5media. I’ve been late because we’ve been working behind the scenes on the launch and there has been a lot to do. In fact, we’ve had about two months since we first hired Mike Laba, the music channel editor and it…