In the Weeds
I’ve been utterly in the weeds for the past two weeks. I should break free tomorrow and will get back to more regular posts.
How NOT to Research a Story – USA Today
(Disclaimer: I work for Namemedia, Inc. who is one of the largest owners and resellers of domains in the world. I don’t work in that end of the business, and I don’t speak for them.)…
Social Media Community Building 101 – The Right Domain Name
<This is part 3 in my series on Social Media Community Building. You will find all of my pieces on this subject by checking out this tag: Social Media 101. Disclosure: this post is about…
Does Twitter Dilute Media Brands?
For the past couple weeks I’ve been tweeting for the Reel-Time.com site under the Twitter handle “Reel_Time” and I’ve found some very interesting trends. Most disturbing is that Twitter doesn’t really appear to be an…
The Rules for Twitter
Rules to be obeyed: Twitter Rule #1 No Hawaiian Shirt avatars until after Memorial Day. Twitter Rule #2 – Only religion, social media marketing, politics or other mundane topics allowed. Twitter Rule #3 – Mandatory lunch tweets…
Twitter, Hashtags, Baseball and a Dose of Spam
For about a year, I’ve been using twitter and hashtags to tweet with fellow Red Sox fans about our favorite topic, the Red Sox. Over that time, I’ve seen a big change how it works.…
Personal Branding Reviled…Oops…Revisited
The rumination du jour on the Twitterverse is Personal Branding. Endless links to blog posts about how to pimp your personal brand, monetize it or sell it to the highest bidder seem to appear by…
Reel-Time.com Updated
Over the past couple months, I’ve been working nights and weekends to get Reel-time.com updated and running on WordPress. The project, while far from complete, reached critical mass this week and I was able to…
Something Wonderful is About to Happen…
Okay, maybe not wonderful. But did want to post and explain that I’ve been too busy to post for the past week, and later today, you’ll probably see why. If I can get the stuff…
A Sustainable Botnet?
Gizmodo has published an interesting article entitled “How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse” and I’ve got to say that I’m generally concerned. …and here’s why that is deeply, deeply scary. As we explained, Conficker…