If your PR and marketing folks aren’t tracking your company, brand, and competition online, they need to get up to speed to better do their jobs. If you play all of the roles, tracking your company and brand isn’t as time consuming as it sounds. Remember alert services, blogs, and social network sites. Many of these [...]
Recently, I lamented about the many blogging features available. I interacted with the blogosphere more than I usually do to see what works and what doesn’t. What took me so long to discover CommentLuv, I don’t know. But I did. Since I use WordPress, it was a breeze to install. The plugin doesn’t even need you [...]
When people say they don’t get Twitter — it’s because they need to be more proactive. Twitter doesn’t work if you lurk, post updates, and do nothing else. What I’ve learned after using Twitter for a month: Follow unto others as you would have them do unto you. @comment others [...]
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles Top 100 Social Media Sites English Pronouncing Dictionary with sound How to Write a Thank You Note: This is a wonderful article from the late Leslie Harpold tat’s right on target. Already break a [...]
An Introduction to Social Networks Improve your writing: Contains the advice you see in most articles like this one, but it never hurts to brush up. How bad blogging could hurt your company: Blogging is not for every business just like businesses won’t market in [...]
Social networks can boost your business visibility and market YOU the brand. There are too many of them, and many are of good quality. We can’t force our friends and colleagues to join the same handful of networks. Some prefer these five, some prefer those four, and some prefer the other five — yet we [...]
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 [...]
You may have seen “View of the World” art depicting a large city like Chicago, New York, Washington, DC and other cities by Saul Steinberg. A View of the World from 9th Avenue is perhaps Steinberg’s most famous work from the series. I have Washington, DC and New York. Paul sent me this online communities version [...]