Using Twitter over the past week or so has been a very frustrating experience. The site takes a long time to load, its features either intermittently or permanently don't work, updates get lost and, due to the site's miserable uptime, its third party applications don't work either. For a time, every second person's update complained about Twitter's uptime (or lack thereof), and some suggested a mu...
Recently I attended the eCommerce Summit, and while I was there I attended the "Using Press Releases to Drive Sales" session. The sole speaker was Joe Beaulaurier, marketing manager of PRWeb. Sure, his session was a bit salesy (then again, so were a lot of the session at the eCommerce Summit, but it is ecommerce, after all), but he did make so...
When the Internet began to usurp more traditional forms of communication, I remember hearing quite a number of discussions about how dangerous letter-writing had suddenly become....
One year in Rome, the festival of the Bona Dea ("good goddess") was held at Caesar's house. No men were permitted, but one did manage to enter disguised as a woman, intent in seducing the Caesar's wife Pompeia. He was caught but was later released with no charges. Nonetheless Caesar divorced Pompeia saying that "my wife ought not even to be under suspicion."
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The web/tech community tends to be a helpful, compassionate bunch, who have great zeal for sharing knowledge and promoting various social and political ideals.Last week, my employer sent me to a grant-writing conference in Washington, D.C.(the other Washington, for those of you residing in the Pacific NW.). It was by far the most intense week of my life, and along the way, I met...
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand advocates responding to the online criticism that comes your way, usually via forums and blogs. He talks about politely taking responsibility for the things you've done wrong and equally politely trying to explain your position.
Ok SEO professionals we’ve all sat in front of an opportunity and had someone ask us the 1 Million Dollar question.The client asks "Can you give me an idea on what your SEO services are going to do for our bottom line?" ...
Online reputation management is something that (unless we are very stupid) we've all done. We've all crafted something on our blogs or social networking profiles to project a specific image to the public. Unless a blog or profile is private, we have no idea who that "public" might include.
Google News can be a powerful tool for finding super targeted websites to get amazing traffic from. I know I am not alone when looking for places with great authority to send me traffic so, I think this tip could be beneficial for those frustrated with figuring out great places to get started with press.I am not taking anything away from the typical PR sites like ...
I got to meet with the PR firm Ruder Finn today in downtown San Francisco and our talk focused on how similiar the PR and online link building industries are. Let's examine the two side by side: Public Relations: Build a contact list of reporters, writers, press folks, etc. Target a piece of ...