Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Toby’s review is up! Andy Wibbels’s new BLOGWILD! packs a big punch in a small package. Great for throwing into your briefcase and reading when you travel. BLOGWILD! is an easy, almost bullet point read, that hits the basics of blogging 101. The book is actually two books for the price of one. In the […]

OH YEAH! My publisher just called to tell me that they just sold the rights to Blogwild! in Poland! Yeehaw! I think I forgot to tell you that Nicholas Brealey is handling the book in the UK market.

One of the benefits of having an email newsletter is adoring remarks like STOP SENDING ME YOUR DAMN EMAILS NOW. TRASH, FRAUD I really think ‘Sincerely, Fraud’ would have been much more elegant. It never ceases to amaze me that they don’t see the big fat throbbing Unsubscribe link that accompanies every ezine. An ezine […]

Noel reflects on the Wal-Mart blog brouhaha fallout: The way I see it, the trouble with hiring a PR firm to make use of blogs is that when people find out you’re using PR, they never know what is truth and what is spin, and therefore won’t trust anything they read. Perhaps Walmart should drop […]

Fantastic: Titlez allows you to enter in book titles and track their sales trends on Amazon.com from hour to hour. I am tracking my book and my top competitors to see how the trends lay from day to day. Check it out: http://www.titlez.com/

Literary history is littered with countless tales of authors and addictions. But they don’t tell you about bookfat. No, not backhair. Bookfat. Though backhair can become a secondary characteristic of bookfat as an author’s hygiene suffers from lack of sleep and/or exfoliating and/or regular grooming. No, not backfat. Bookfat. Though bookfat can end up as […]

Summary: WordPress.com offers free, instant blogging but lacks the full features of the WordPress platform. A lot of clients are asking me about WordPress and how it stacks up to other blogging platforms like Blogger or Typepad. Only problem is: There are two types of WordPress: WordPress.org and WordPress.com. If you go to WordPress.org you’ll […]

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 […]