Truer words have never been spoken. Wanna know how “The gizzle has changed”? Well, then, read all about it! haha, what a crack-up! Now if only I could talk like that without the help of a tranzliatin’ machine! 😉 Even better is my blog tranzliat’d. I actually think it’s an improvement. 😉 I challenge you […]

The DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, provides you as a website owner with a useful hammer you can use to beat on copyright infringers. As a content producer, you have the right to enforce your copyright. When your content gets “re-purposed” on other’s websites without your permission, you can file a DMCA Infringement Notification […]

Hitwise is a competitive intelligence service that gives you insight into where your competitors get their traffic from and which keywords drive the bulk of their traffic from search engines, among other things. It comes at a price of course — to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. I noticed that in a […]

I had the privilege of interviewing web content guru Gerry McGovern this week. Gerry shared some real gems. Here are a few highlights… Gerry says the biggest mistake that companies make in regards to their website content is thinking that customers care one little bit about the company. “Customers care about themselves, their loved ones and […]

Debbie Weil’s excellent The Corporate Blogging Book is now out. I’ve got my copy in hand and I have to say I’m impressed. It’s a rich source of practical info for those thinking about blogging for business and for those already blogging and wanting to do it better. I was pleased to see the blog […]

Seems like just about every toolbar out there includes a popup blocker (e.g. Google Toolbar, Yahoo Companion Toolbar). Plus, many web browsers are offering this capability built in. In addition, there’s antivirus / personal firewall security software like Norton Internet Security that blocks pop-ups (heck, Norton is so overly zealous, it strips out referrers so […]

For the past couple months I’ve been jotting down random ideas on how to make this world a better place. But they don’t do any good sitting in a Word document on my Mac. I could blog them on my own blog here, but frankly I don’t think they’ll get much attention that way. One […]

Yahoo! now has a corporate blog, Yahoo! Search Blog. I’ve been a fan of an unofficial Yahoo blog, namely that of Yahoo employee Jeremy Zawodny, for a while now. But it’s good to see the company embracing blogging in an official capacity.

Today I had the pleasure to hear web content guru Gerry McGovern speak at a full-day workshop in Wellington, New Zealand. He’s got to be one of the very best speakers I’ve ever heard! His course material, his sense of humor, his thought-provoking insights, and especially his Irish accent — had everyone in the audience […]

Guess where the idea came from for President Jimmy Carter, nobel laureate, to start a blog? Yep, it was from yours truly. 🙂 The goal was to generate media attention and garner links to the Carter Center’s website. And it worked like a charm. His recent trip to West Africa, chronicled in a blog format, […]