And I’m not talking about Larry Craig here. Twitter is already starting to pay off. Don Campbell followed me and I in turn followed him. Don tweeted about this summary of an interview with Brad Bird of Pixar about innovation which turned out to be excellent. One of my favorite take-aways about how Steve Jobs […]
Twitter’s value just went up ever so slighty – I just installed their widget on the right-hand column. After much encouragement by Brian Wallace I have decided to try and make Twitter a regular part of my routine. I have been trying to think about how Twitter could be of use to local businesses and […]
Just got off the phone with Robert Silverman of Statepoint Media, a service that distributes advertorial to local newspapers, who claims that while the big dailies are busy falling off a cliff, local newspapers are thriving. He’s talking about the kind of local papers you pick up in the hotel lobby or in a box […]
Tim Nash has a great post on social media image optimization. He has figured out the image sizes that produce the best results on social media sites. This makes a huge amount of sense. If you are trying to maximize your posts’ power you could do worse than follow Tim’s lead.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Best Passover Book Title Ever. I thought the book cover was such a classic that it deserved a submission to This Is Broken, a site I found several years ago that I loved. It features bone-headed product design choices such as this classic playground location. […]
I just discovered a new social media blog, Social Media Influence. You would think I would have known about it because it was started by my friend, Matthew Yeomans of Custom Communication. Maybe Matthew needs to work on his social media marketing skills. 🙂 The blog is full of interesting stuff. This post about the […]
I was having a conversation today about the importance of social media marketing with a guy who has a very big social network. He’s all over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. And it occurred to me that the size of your online/wireless social network and the influence you hold over it is and will continue […]
While at the Kelsey Local Search Conference last week I was talking to some folks from the local search group of one of the major search engines and they asked me if I knew any good sources of local content to add to their service. They were already familiar with a lot of the sites […]
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I have received a bunch of requests for the presentation I gave at Friday’s morning session at the Kelsey Group’s Drilling Down on Local Conference so I thought I would post it here. Thanks again to Peter, Mike, Matt, Neal, John, Pam, Bobbi and the rest of the Kelsey gang for putting on a great […]