I quickly realized that StumbleUpon is the coolest and hottest social bookmarking service nobody has heard of. I love it but I don’t nearly use it enough: either as a stumbler or as a marketer. I found this on Blog Marketing Journal and thought I would open it up to you:
In case you are not […]
I just discovered another very interesting article written by Jennifer Mattern over at RedFly Marketing, Online PR vs. Internet Marketing — here’s an excerpt:
Internet Marketing Tactics:
Paid advertising (banner ads, text link ads, etc.)
Link exchanges, free Web directory submissions, blog comments (link-building activities)
Affiliates
Sales letters (and other sales copy)
Article marketing (to drive affiliate sales, traffic, or backlinks)
Search […]
Zach Goldfarb wrote a great post over at the Washington Post and popped me an email to see if I had any comment on it. I did! The article was posted on Friday last and is called TechPost: Washington’s Twin Tech Towns. My comment starts right below the following video:
I attended the Spank party for […]
I met the lovely Andrea Hill at PodCampOhio. Andrea is a runner, a Canadian, a new media maven, and a senior developer at Resource Interactive. She also hung out with me part of the day and over lunch and I was charmed — Andrea is lovely. I would like to share her experience at PodCampOhio, […]
My friend Phillip loves to surf Google Trends as a way of seducing Google Search love. I would love to use Google Trends as a tool for analytics; however, I think that Google Trends doesn’t focus enough on the long tail to be useful for me. I need more granular information. That said, it seems […]
I have finally gotten around to catching up on all the Atlantics that have piled up in my absence in Berlin. One very compelling article is an anonymous essay written by “Professor X,” In the Basement of the Ivory Tower.
I am still trying to sort out my thoughts on this — please excuse the disjointed […]
I just posted an article onto Marketing Conversation called Gifting Bloggers Doesn’t Mean Pushing Swag and within minutes Stevie Wilson of LA-Story wrote the most amazing comment on the culture of swag that is commonplace in Los Angeles, California… (via Marketing Conversation)
Swag is the name of the game in Los Angeles– in a city that […]
One great thing about owning a Social Media PR firm is that I get to do cool stuff. Another great thing is that I can bogart some of the stuff. Well, I am number-one box of the Life Changing Box, which you can see over on my Facebook Profile! (Please feel free to add […]
My friend Momotaro, the fellow who created the banner for Memes.org, was so amused by the first comment that someone posted onto my blog post, Don’t Save the Whales and Don’t Save the Rainforest Either, that he created the following anthology of really intelligent put-downs, I Hope a Whale Beaches Itself On You — it […]
CNN Radio Called Me to Comment from Berlin
I just got a call from CNN Radio to comment on Microsoft’s withdrawal of the offer for Yahoo! I love being on the Radio. I am lucky enough to be on CNN’s list as a technologist and total geek so CNN Radio sometimes calls me if they need a geek with a good voice. […]