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Last week, Scott Monty, the head of social marketing at Ford, conducted an impromtu Q&A with Ford CEO Alan Mulally on Twitter: Twitter Q&A with Ford's Mulally The point is: Twitter can be a marketing channel to your online friends. Ever use your status message on Linked In or Facebook to convey m...
12/23/2008
Poor AOL. They've been a step slow and a day late for almost a decade. The one bright spot was AIM. They were the big name in instant messaging and everybody else was playing catch-up. Along comes Twitter. It's not exactly new, but of late has been growing by leaps in acceptance and usage. Twitte...
12/23/2008
More evidence that FB is the topic du jour.  My tutorial about advertsiing on Facebook was reblogged here - http://activerain.com/blogsview/803716/Advertising-on-Facebook Thanks to Mike Jaquish for the heads up. --------------------------- Off-topic: I'm not so sure about the AR policy of penaliz...
11/24/2008
Our roads and bridges may be crumbling, but our information infrastructure is growing like kudzu. One of the most interesting new developments is the expansion of advertising opportunities on Facebook. THE FIRST STEP The first thing to do if you want to advertise on Facebook is get yourself a pr...
10/14/2008
Both MySpace and Facebook have beefed up their offerings for advertisers. Today, we'll talk a little about M/S because it has the more robust interface. First of all, you don't need a myspace account or a myspace profile to advertise. Even if you have a profile, you need to create a separate acc...
10/07/2008
We just completed this YouTube video for Pittsboro Realtor® Julie Roland. Production: Consumer miniDV camera Hand held microphone Tripod Edited on Final Cut Express Shooting time: about an hour Editing time: 2 hours The presence of Julie in the video (both on-camera and voice-over) is designed to...
10/06/2008
There are thousands of social portals on the internet, from massively mainstream to fantastically fringe. But lately, three social networks have emerged as must-haves for business people in a Web 2.0 world. From start-ups to superstars in five years, social networking on the internet has swept a...
09/09/2008
No true blogger is satisfied with a generic theme design. Here's how you can re-theme your blog in 4 easy steps. WHAT'S A THEME? A theme is the design of your blog - colors, fonts, layout, etc. All blogs have a "default" theme. For WordPress, it looks like this:   FIND A NEW THEME Whatever blog e...
07/29/2008
Super-Realtor® Mike Jaquish brought up an interesting question in his blog recently: Is it a good practice to require visitors to your blog to register before posting comments? Mike (and most commenters) said No, it's not a good idea. They're right. In a nutshell, requiring sign-up minimizes the ...
06/20/2008
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Now and then, it’s good to check if all the links on your site are functioning. Here’s a handy online tool to do just that. Add-me.com, a site devoted to search and web tools, has a free online link checker. Just enter the url of your home page and Broken Link Checker delivers a report of active ...
05/19/2008
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