I have started doing a lot of traveling and I think that shipping stuff around via UPS or FedEx is a much better idea than checking luggage, especially if it is domestic and since carriers are beginning to charge for the privilege of losing or misplacing your luggage. This is via AARP:
Now that airlines are […]
I just received a love not from Matt Mullenweg and Wordpress.org — here’s a full-text copy of you to enjoy if you’re not on the Wordpress.org mailing list:
Subject: WordPress hasn’t forgotten you, we just don’t write
From: Matt Mullenweg
Howdy.
Long time no talk. I take that back — criminally long. I think this is the first message […]
According to an online quiz on Details, “Are Your That Guy,” I am totally that guy: a total douchebag, apparently.
1 You initiate fist bumps.
Yes
No
Someone told me that high-fives are passe so I have replaced them with bumps and regular, manly, handshakes.
2 You order foreign dishes in an accent.
Yes
No
I ask for foreign dishes, yes, properly. If […]
Krishna De just wrote an article called How Not To Pitch A Blogger and it is brilliant and useful — “here are three of the many mistakes they made in the pitch:”
there was no personal connection in the email to me about why the story may be of interest to me and my readers
they did […]
Our client, Jerry White, co-founder of Survivor Corps, just guest-blogged over at the Anderson Cooper 360 blog, How to stop the violence: Feel the pain, check it out:
The morning papers and nightly news are filled with reminders the world can be an unpredictably dangerous place. Earthquakes in China, cyclones in Myanmar, tornados in the heartland, war […]
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 […]
From Drew B’s Take on Tech PR via Nixon McInnes:
“Only 18% of TV ad campaigns generate positive ROI”
“The average person is exposed to 3000 advertising messages a day”
“36% of people think more positively of companies who have blogs”
Good night and sleep well!
While very many media outlets support del.icio.us in their bookmarking and social media strategies, there has been very little innovation in the del.icio.us social bookmarking platform — this has been a major problem with properties that have been acquired by big firms such as AOL, Google, and Yahoo!, in the case of del.icio.us. Allen Stern […]
Jennifer Mattern just wrote a great post answering some of your questions regarding the important question, Should You Jump Into Social Networks to Promote Your Business? over at RedFly Marketing:
There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional social networks like MySpace and Facebook or social networking […]
This is an op-ed written by Jerry White, founder of Survivor Corps and author of I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, on the Fourth of July, 2008:
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” These are not the words of a […]