Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Patrick Gavin’s Blogging

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

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Since I’m much too busy to get a proper post out before SMX can head over to Patrick Gavin’s new blog, there you can read about the history of Text Link Ads.

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Do You Subscribe to Your Own Blog

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Seems a silly question to ask but I can’t believe that the people who run Trendspotting are subscribed to their blog and haven’t yet noticed that their blog is published without a title or haven’t done anything about it

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Five Reasons I Blog

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Don’t blame me, blame Lee

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Blogging Code of Conduct … Stupid Idea

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Boy it’s a good thing that someone came up with the blogging code of conduct idea, because that will almost certainly put and end to people who people who do stupid things and act like jerks … I mean really does anybody think troublemakers and rule breakers give a rats ass about rules, regulations or guidelines … rules, laws, guidelines are created for people who already follow other rules, codes and guidelines not people who don’t … something to think about

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Mercenary Audio Meet Reputation Management

Friday, March 16th, 2007

When I see companies who still haven’t caught on to the fact that word of mouth and viral marketing works not only to make your company, product or service look good but also look bad, I shake my head there are so many ways to solve a problem and this isn’t one of them …

Mercenary Audio Fires Blogger

His boss learned about the blog when coworkers passed around the posting with the adorable photo of his newborn son. His boss then fired Drew by leaving him a voicemail that Drew picked up when he got home from the hospital.

For the next few years like it or not Google is the start page of the internet, and not grasping it has a very long memory can be very dangerous for you when you are trying to attract new customers or new employees.

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Will Somebody Please Fix the Broken Redundant Feeds

Friday, March 16th, 2007

This isn’t a problem that’s native only to Google Reader, but gosh darn it Google how about fixing something that really is broken …

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Blogging and Preferences

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

When I worked for the man one of the things I learned was that everyone had a preferred method of communication. It could have been email, phone, fax, or even face to face. If you wanted to make the sale, close the deal, or solve the problem you not only had to figure out what that method was, but overcome your own bias and be willing to work in the medium your customer preferred.

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What Time of Day do You Post to Your Blog?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

So I’ve got an idea in my head, that’s entering the “hey I might actually do this one” and of my biggest questions is when do I schedule my posts to go live?

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Email Comments Subscriptions Enabled

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I enabled the comment subscrption plugin against my better judgement. Y’all complained and I gave in but I ain’t happy about it. But if it gives me one bit of trouble, I’m turning this car around right now and we’re going straight home …

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