Category: Blogging

More on Facebook Privacy Violations

With over 400 million users and growing, facebook is cashing in big by changing the way your personal information is shared, and users are starting to revolt. In a recent post entitled “Facebook Privacy Controls, Marketing Opportunities or Internet Danger?”, I wrote about some of the opportunities and dangers presented by this mammoth social networking… Continue reading More on Facebook Privacy Violations

Time Traveler Tours

Just a quick post to tell you about Time Traveler Tours, a new blog written by my friend and expatriate Sarah Towle. The idea started when she happened upon an American father and his two boys on the right bank of the Seine. Evidently the kids weren’t quite as enthusiastic as Dad was about French… Continue reading Time Traveler Tours

How To Destroy Community

Great post on smallbiztrends today about what to do if you want to destroy community on your blog, written by social media expert Lisa Barone. Lisa points out the numerous ways bloggers can undermine themselves by: Trying to control everything Silencing criticism Ignoring comments and questions Making newcomers feel unwelcome Not listening Hiding your contact… Continue reading How To Destroy Community

Of ideaviruses, social viruses and stickiness

Last week’s post by Hugh McLeod on the "gaping void blog" entitled "the social virus" is a visual version of how to make things "sticky" and "memorable."  For those who don’t know about Hugh, he’s a marketer / cartoonist who uses "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" to put forth his ideas. In… Continue reading Of ideaviruses, social viruses and stickiness

Blogging: a great cheap way for very small businesses to market online

There’s been a lot of talk about blog marketing, the importance of blogs now, and how important they will be in the future of marketing.  It’s easier, faster and less expensive to get traffic to a blog than to a website between tags, pinging, trackbacking and commenting; and hopefully it will stay that way.  You… Continue reading Blogging: a great cheap way for very small businesses to market online

The No Impact Man, Viral Marketing At It’s Best

As a marketing professional and "green" concerned citizen, I’m intrigued with both the environmental aspects and the marketing buzz that’s been created by the "no impact man".  From the NY Times to Seth Godin everyone is talking about Colin Beavan and his family who have imbarked on a year long experiment to see what little… Continue reading The No Impact Man, Viral Marketing At It’s Best

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