Immersing yourself into the blogosphere and social networks keeps your finger on the pulse and helps you connect with others. A feedreader helps you quickly scan articles, blog entries, and site to keep you updated. However, they can be a time killer and easily overwhelm a person. My feedreader has over 400 feeds. It wouldn’t sound [...]
meryl’s notes has two parts to it: The blog and articles (well, three, if you count the newsletter, but it doesn’t have a feed). The blog contains shorter postings while articles consists of longer posts that are good for a long time such as tips, reviews, and advice. If you subscribe to meryl’s notes blog [...]
Businesses have been taking advantage of many online tools not originally created for business purposes such as blogs, feeds, wikis, forums and more. These help businesses create a community, build relationships and gain trust and credibility. Would you buy a book on this topic? If so, what do you want from the book that you’re not [...]
Derek Harding at ClickZ explores RSS, its good and bad points, and its impact on email marketing. Just like some people prefer to get pizza by delivery, by pick up, or by eating in the restaurant — RSS and email newsletters provide users with the choice of getting content delivered by email or by newsreader. [...]
Stock investors always say, “Diversify!” Imagine if you had all of your stock in one company and it went bankrupt. This scenario is what happened after the dot com crash. Putting all your eggs into one basket labeled “email newsletters” can also spell disaster. The eggs might meet the same fate as Humpty Dumpty. But if [...]