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Digital Marketing Specialist, Social Media Consultant, and Tech Geek at Heart

Should You Stop Sending Newsletters and Focus on Blogging?

My ever-so-brilliant BFF wrote an interesting piece about whether blogs should be a primary marketing initiative or if email newsletters should still be in play. Lisa’s question was prompted by a blog post by Dawud Miracle which poses the same question. And Yaro Starak believes he has the answer: no. I’m with ya, pal. ...

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How is this Possible?

89%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Am I really that addicted? Are you that addicted? I can’t wait to see what Barry’s score is. Oh, and if you want to know how safe my blog is for younger audiences, here’s the rating: [via Mingle2 - Online Dating] Permanent link to this post (48 words, 1 image, estimated 12 ...

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Why Do I Blog? Let Me Count the Ways

Another meme has come to town, and this time I’m answering this one here (my last meme was posted over at 10e20.com — 5 things you don’t know about me). Nathan Weinberg (still no relation) tagged me and Barry, among a few others, and while I’m totally under the weather with an awful cold, I decided that I...

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Facebook Fanatics Add Fuel to the Fire

Awhile ago, I wrote why I am an obsessive compulsive Facebook user. Truthfully, Facebook’s “obsessive compulsive” reach didn’t grab me until recent events that I blogged about earlier this week. As I mentioned in that post, I started a blog to address a problem that seems to be plaguing my high school, an...

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Blogs as Conversations and Calls for Action

On Thursday night, an interesting dilemma fell into my lap. I discovered from my youngest sister, who just graduated high school last year, that my high school was literally falling into shambles. After my high school principal passed away in 2001, the leadership of the high school fell into numerous incapable hands. Turnover was...

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A Good Headline Alone Can Drive Serious Traffic, Even if the Content Sucks

Brian Clark said it so many times. The headline can do everything. Today, as I checked out what’s hot in Digg, I found a disturbing entry on the top 10 in Technology: 10 Most Misspelled Words in Blogs. The writer says that there are ten misused words “in blogs” that cannot be picked up by spellchecking. These...

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