How to Get Started in Social Media (and Not Screw It Up)

May 4, 2010

If I hear one more story about how a business owner thinks that they aren’t sure of whether or not social media is important, I think I might quit, move back to my hometown, and get a job at the Purple Turtle. If I hear one more story about a social media ‘expert’ who tries [...]

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Content Strategists

April 14, 2010

Fast Company has this new article on Content Strategists. The basic gist is that companies who aren’t aware of the link economy or how content marketing works, then they are going to be hurting themselves, big time.
While working this morning I was talking to a chap at the local coffee shop who mentioned that his [...]

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Crazy Fast Indexing

March 24, 2010

Last night I was writing a blog post on TheAbundantArtist.com. When I was done writing the post I accidentally hit publish instead of pushing the time out for the next morning. When I noticed it, about five minutes had gone by. I unpublished, moved the time, and moved on to another project.
Later I was checking [...]

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Advertising to the Modern Man

February 23, 2010

I don’t know exactly what happened in the last few months, but I’ve been reading a lot of chatter from various male bloggers that I admire. We’re getting tired of the ridiculous advertising pushed on the American man. Perhaps it was the Superbowl ads and their pandering to neanderthal men.
How many men are there that [...]

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Hilarious Screenshots from the Interwebz

February 3, 2010

I keep a folder on my desktop full of hilarious screenshots. I’m posting some of the best, sometimes inadvertant, advertisements, announcements, and incongruous images from that folder.
To the left here is a Geico ad on Facebook, aimed at the fact that I am Mormon. Pretty much left me speechless.
This next one is a screenshot from [...]

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