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A Test For Monetizing Your Blog With Qumana

April 16th, 2009 at 1:10 pm » Comments (1)

As a social media consultant, I don’t actually rely on ad revenue from my blog, i.e. Google Adsense or the like to pay my bills.  If I did, I would have gone back to working in the law as I was before.  I am helping out the folks at Qumana, the blog editor I am [...]



Social Media and the Child of Television

April 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am » Comments (0)

I have always been a child of television.  I was born at the height of when television broke on to the scene as the next big thing, and I was doused with it’s essence from day one.  To that end I have some things that are a part of my DNA I believe that makes [...]



New Media Marketing? Is it taking a backseat?

April 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am » Comments (1)

Just reading over at Profy and Svetlana Gladkova asking the question, "Twitter is a Popular Marketing Tool?".  The analysis is interesting on Svetlana’s piece and I think you should read it.  The thing that caught my eye was less about the written words and more about the graphic she had in the post.
 
The thing [...]



Social Mediasphere TV Launched

April 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 am » Comments (0)

I have recently launched Social Mediasphere TV and added it to my list of blogs including this one and including Bloggers For Hire in the long list of blogs I contribute to and provide.  Social Mediasphere TV is an extension of the radio I was doing on Blog Talk Radio.  You can still go over [...]



One By One Media Heading South For The Winter

February 20th, 2009 at 10:54 am » Comments (0)

Perhaps that is not as much of a migration as it is a business trip for me.  I am headed to Miami tomorrow to speak at Wordcamp Miami and attend BarCamp Miami and Future of Web Apps ‘09.
I will be speaking at Wordcamp Miami as I did in Las Vegas on "Blogging for A Living", [...]



Hosted Blogging Applications; Another Example Why They Are Not For Me

February 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm » Comments (1)

I am constantly finding reasons why I am not a proponent of hosting blogging plans. I am a Wordpress supporter yet I don’t recommend hosting your blog on Wordpress.com, and in spite of the Google mantra of doing no evil, I tell many to run away from Google’s application Blogger. In a recent article by [...]



Twitter Fearing To Make Money But Not Afraid to Borrow Money

January 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm » Comments (2)

I am not in charge over at Twitter and perhaps after this post we will know why. I was catching up on reading about news on Techmeme this evening and saw that Twitter was raising more capital. I had the same reaction to this as did Ashkan Karbasfrooshan with his take on the similarities to [...]



Social Media Tools Like Twitter Can Be Tough To Implement

December 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am » Comments (1)

I struggle to help some companies not in the cool kids group get the traction they deserve and help with with the use of tools just like Twitter, which brings us full circle to my point (we had to get there sooner or later). … I get many people that follow me on Twitter and when I go to their twitter page they have perhaps 10 updates in the last 6 months or even not at all and they have 3000 people they are following and have about 100



Twitter Keeps Flying But Magpie Makes The Money

November 25th, 2008 at 12:06 am » Comments (9)

As I was growing up in rural Colorado, we had plenty of opportunities to see magpies in their environment. They were usually standing over the latest roadkill. Basically they are scavengers. They get fed from nothing they have done on their own but finding the opportunity. I draw that picture to my own mind and [...]



Twitter Is The Epitome of Social Media

November 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm » Comments (0)

I have been busily working out my Twitter thoughts here in the last few days as it has become apparent that I have a slight addiction that needs to be fed now and then as it relates to how I use the service.  I have, at this writing, just under 3000 people or organizations [...]