Category Archives: Social Media

Search Engine Strartup Tips from Bing’s Scott Prevost

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I’ve got to admit that I’m not yet a big fan of Bing, but I really did enjoy these solid tips on video from Bing’s Scott Pre­vost.
The video topic is focused on search engine star­tups, but these basic prin­ci­ples can be applied in any soft­ware or web­site devel­op­ment project, (i.e. user expe­ri­ence test­ing, iden­tify prob­lems

How Mobile Location-​​Based Apps Will Change Your Business in 2010

A new report pub­lished by Jupiter Juniper Research fore­casts a rapid growth trend for mobile location-​​​​based ser­vices, dri­ving rev­enues to more than $12.7 bil­lion by 2014.

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What does this mean for your busi­ness?
If you have an offline busi­ness, you stand to imme­di­ately ben­e­fit from location-​​​​based ser­vices. Here’s a few of the most pop­u­lar mobile location-​​​​based

H@x0R3D!

Sorry folks, about the crazy site redi­rec­tion some of you got here recently. Looks like this site was hacked. I was able to take care of it pretty quickly, but this attack had some weird characteristics:

It hijacked my pages and redi­rected my US vis­i­tors to a China sex site (NSFW but not really porn)
Some of the ads

Abandoned Business Social Network Profiles? The Real Cost To Your Company

Do you have social net­work pro­files that you just can’t seem to keep up with? If so, I’ve got a lit­tle story to tell you. A recent client of mine, a small cor­po­ra­tion, once had an employee who cre­ated social net­work pro­files all over the inter­net. This employee finally moved on to other things after 2 years, but left

Blogalicious09 Radio Series — Join Me There Tonight

Just want to let you all know that I’ll be inter­viewed on Talk­shoe tonight on the Blo­ga­li­cious series.
If you’re not famil­iar with Blo­ga­li­cious, it’s the first con­fer­ence of it’s kind for women of color. It was last month (Octo­ber ’09) and gave women of color who are blog­gers an oppor­tu­nity to be rec­og­nized for their

Google Wave’s Viral Campaign

Search Engine giant Google, has shown the world how it is reshap­ing the way com­mu­ni­ca­tion hap­pens over the inter­net with the soft launch of Google Wave. And it has done so in a way it knows best – through invite based viral marketing.

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The inter­net wit­nessed tremors of excite­ment when 100,000 exclu­sive invites

Mommy Blogging, Mompreneurs, and Multi-​​Cultural Women: The New Social Media Darlings

For the past year, I’ve been asked to speak at a num­ber of inter­net mar­ket­ing conferences.

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That, in itself, is not odd since I’ve been speak­ing at web con­fer­ences since 2002. What has been dif­fer­ent this time is the types of con­fer­ences I’ve been asked to speak at lately. They’ve all been con­fer­ences directed at