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How Much Are People Talking About You? Part Deux
Last year I wrote a post titled, “How Much do People Talk About You?“. I could very well simply republish that post and be done with it, but I wanted to come back to the topic a year later and discuss it more because it’s important. It’s important from a marketing perspective, and of course…
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10 Power Tips to Help PC Users Switch to Mac
Seems like more and more people I know are making the switch from Windows to Mac. Apparently, no one cares that the economy sucks and pundits are telling them that people just like them, Joe the Plumber as it were, are saving their money and not buying bling products like Apple. Perhaps people are realizing…
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Facebook Spam Pitches
There’s a new form of social media spamming happening in the name of PR social media relevance. It is the art of the Facebook “tag”. If you’re fortunate enough, you’ve been hit with this spam a dozen times in the last week. It is shadiness at it’s best and I will not hesitate to out…
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Passion, Relationships and Thought Leadership
Back in the bad old days of blogging, the way to get attention was simple. Flame someone long enough and hard enough and they would take notice and respond in comments, or otherwise. Bloggers realized their power for change and took their platforms seriously, calling into question media accounts in politics, public relations nightmares such…
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Discussing DISQUS
Several months ago, I decided to give Disqus a try. Disqus is a company that provides a social commenting functionality to blogs. It replaces/hijacks a blogs comments and replaces with their own commenting system. I really liked the ability to reply to comments via email as well as comment threading. Jason Yan and Daniel Ha…
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Even During a Recession, Small Businesses Still Should Consider Macbooks
I was talking to someone recently who just took a new job at a small web-company. She has been a Windows user all her life but she asked me what she should get in her new job. They were buying her a new computer. Naturally, I suggested the new Macbook that Apple announced yesterday. The…
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Non-Competes in a Down Economy
I keep inching and inching into the beat of my colleague, Ray Capece of Venture Files, but I think it’s pretty important and weighty times for web professionals and small business owners alike. Unlike anytime in our history, the uncertainty of the future of our world and country are great. Everyone is speculating about what…
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BlogHer Comes to DC, Technosailor.com represents 33% of Male Population
BlogHer, the female-focused blogging organization and ad-network, touched down in Suburban Maryland yesterday for the Washington, D.C. edition of the BlogHer Reach Out tour. I had a chance to attend and apparently now have the label of a BlogHim (whatever that means). It was my first event and, as with most guys that go to…
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Why Pay For a Blog Platform?
An interesting auxiliary thread has developed over the past few days. It has to do with blog platforms. So, it’s not really a new discussion but it seems to be cropping up again a bit. It has to do with paid blog platforms versus free blog platforms. Before I go any farther, let me say…
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Proudly Powered by FastServers
I want to give a quick shout out to Aaron Phillips at Fastservers.net who recognized me and grabbed me out of a crowd of booth scopers while I was at Blog World Expo last month. He offered me a fantastic offer to move this blog, as well as the rest of my sites over to…