Category: General

I love Google Desktop. Use it at least 8 times a day. It is a local search engine for your hard drive that indexes everything: documents, appointments, email, Gmail, images, etc. I have a ton of old files in WordPerfect format from my pre-MS Office days. Luckily Larry put together a plugin to index those […]

I had a nightmare scenario this past weekend. I found a typo in my book – not in the galleys since those are 2 ‘verions of revisions’ old but I was comparing some stuff. Now, I am psychologically prepared to handle pretty much any mistake in the published text. Except this one. I rifled through […]

My cross-post from Biz Blog Consulting: VistaPrint Syndrome aka Stop Using Blogger

Executive savant John Thorne from Verizon: The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers,” Thorne told a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. “It is enjoying a free lunch that should, by any rational account, […]

We leave comments on other people’s blogs – but why can’t these be easily tracked? I’d tried a hackneyed approach of adding them to a Links list in WordPress and that seems like one way to do it. And so I wasn’t hugely impressed with CoComment -but the added bonus is that it tracks the […]

A few months ago, PDA maniac Rick Cooper emailed all of his clients, colleagues and mentors and asked them their top networking advice. You can download the first edition of Million Dollar Contacts for free (380KB, PDF). Here was my advice: What is your most effective follow up strategy? An autoresponder that kicks off 1 […]

Frappr is a service that lets your readers add their location to a Yahoo! Map, showing where they are. Click here to add yourself and location to my map and then sign-up to get your own map. Curiously their service is marked as BETA which I guess means 1) they hope Google outright buys them […]

I had teased my newsletter that today there would be a BIG-ASS MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT. Here it is: Here’s that BIG-ASS MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT I was talking about: (am I a marketing skank for using all-caps? At least this is plain-text, right?) Suzanne Falter-Barnes is an expert on book publicity and how authors and speakers can build […]

Everybody I know has writing they need to be doing. For me it is a massive amount of course content to write, another book proposal and maybe some freewriting around the coming year. And so it is time for another writing integrity day. Here’s how it works: We all get on the phone at 10am […]

I’m pleased as punch to announce that I’m joining Robert, Toby, Tris, Jim, Dave, Steve, B.L., Jeremy, John and Scott. And DARREN! We’re going to be presenting Six Figure Blogging as part of the program. The Blogonomics cruise sets sail from Miami to Cozumel on a Royal Carribean cruise ship packed with the top bloggin […]