One of our clients have a great communication tool in their hands with a contact page on their blog.  Many people that have purchased their product can come and get information about the products they sell and the industry news and information about the company.  In this particular case, a consumer had a problem […]

Transparency always comes at a price.  Normally the price is honesty and integrity, but sometimes it can come in the form of justice and wrath.  While following along with Twitter today, Anil Dash of Six Apart provided a link to a post by Adam Kuban at the Serious Eats blog that comments on an article […]

When you first start a blog the first two weeks are amazing. You’re reading feeds, you’re posting daily–maybe several times a day–, and it’s very cool! Then reality sets in, commonly called “real life” or “work” or “eating”, and your posting starts to drop off. Hey it’s normal. Look at this […]

Back in the day when I started building sites, we wanted to keep those visitors on the site as long as possible.  We tried to keep links away from the site on secondary pages.  Now the question has been asked, and challenged to some extent, about blogs.  Should you have links to other places on […]

Via Yvonne’s Lip-Sticking (and guest blogger Lena West) comes more advice and insight on why just writing on your blog isn’t enough, it has to go beyond that:
The most common complaint we hear from new clients is “I’m writing blog posts three times a week and no one visits or comments. What’s the deal?” […]

There was a kerfuffle recently over on the main Google blog last week.  While what was said and how it was handled is long over and done, I’m not going to pummel that deceased equine, Matt Cutts published a set of must read tips for the beginning blogger, especially the new business or corporate blogger:
The […]

I’ve been hearing of many people getting to the point of overload on the number of social networks they belong to and the number of networks they are following.  I have a handle on the feeling and have experienced the same headaches that many suffer from as a result.
I spent Sunday actually building my […]

Brian over at Copyblogger has another great post on grammar errors to avoid:
It?s time once again to review those nasty errors that damage our credibility when we write. Not normally a fun task, but absolutely necessary. I promise to keep you amused to diminish the pain (or at least I?ll give it a shot). […]

Thought the very familiar three-column layout that typifies was only for blogs or bloggy things?  Think again, the “blog style layout” is excellent for any information-rich website, just ask AOL News:
The new design lays out news in an blog-like fashion, with excerpts of all the day’s main stories laid out chronologically from top to bottom. Source: […]

Did ya miss us?  I was camping last week so … you didn’t get to hear Jim and I wax poetic, or is that pathetic, about the goings on in social media.
All kidding aside, Jim and I have been doing a lot of thinking about blogging vs writing.  What makes blogging something more than content?
We’re […]