Category: General

If you’re a self-help/productivity junkie like me you bat around differnet methodologies for organizing that big pile on your desk every few days. I remember when I was first exposed to Covey’s 7 Habits approach by a forward-thinking acting teacher in college. I was hooked! I even got my dad started reading it. Then later […]

Yvonne sends this in: WaterPartners International is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping fight unsafe and inadequate water supplies. World Water Day is quickly approaching and will be celebrated on March 22, 2006! The Global water crisis is the leading cause of death and disease in the world, taking the lives of more than 14,000 […]

Yvonne’s close encounter gives insight in why physicians and hospitals might add blogs to their marketing mix: I don’t want to give them that information. There’s too much on the internet already, the doc declared. Great opportunity to make sure they have correct information, I replied. But they don’t need to know all that, he […]

The Performancing guys talk about their approach to promoting their site: Pinpoint the audience and start writing for them. Do all the normal things you do to promote a blog, including a little strategic advertising to kick start if you can. Develop the community, put them above all else. Invite key members of the community […]

(via Steve via Digg) The study found that half of internet-using Britons (51 per cent) visit just six or less sites on a regular basis. The research suggests that using just one banking, shopping, travel information and holiday website is enough for a person to keep their life well-managed. Could it be most real people […]

John Jantsch on creating community with contests and promotions: Staged correctly, marketing contests have several very powerful things going for them: They can become viral very quickly The media is a sucker for a contest A contest presents multiple buzz opportunities Contests are great referral vehicles Contests build community

A post from Scoble got Darren thinking: I wouldn’t quite put it in the words that Robert does. I’m not so sure that we should aspire to ‘ugly’ blogs – but rather would call many of the blogs that I’m talking about that work well ’simple’ or ‘humble’. Back when I used to help with […]

Seth puts together some clues: RSS fatigue is already setting in. While multiple posts get you more traffic, they also make it easy to lose loyal readers. Blogs with restraint, selectivity, cogency and brevity will use attention more efficiently and ought to win. I think about this stuff a lot. Now that we can know […]

Pioneering (and snarktastic) blogger and RSS-guy Dave Winer says he’s throwing in the towel: There’s no turning back on any of it. The 20th Century is fading and the new century is going strong. There really was a big shift as the calendar rolled over, and I’m totally glad to be a part of it. […]

I was talking with one of my colleagues on the phone – another work-from-homer – and she’d mentioned that she’d just got done dancing? Dancing? Yeah, to wake myself up in the afternoon lull I do some dancing in my home office. I forgot that I could dance. I know that if I were to […]