Monthly Archives: April 2008
Boost Your Online Reputation with LinkedIn
LinkedIn has been around for a while now and recently they passed 20 million users. Unless you live under a rock, you probably have received at least one invitation to connect with someone on LinkedIn. That said, I frequently hear, “Okay, so I have an account and a couple of people have connected to me. [...]
Creating Referral Networks
From October 2006 through September 2007, I was the president president of the Voorhees Regional Referral Group – a local BNI chapter here in South Jersey. It was a roller coaster experience. For those unfamiliar with BNI or other similar referral networks, here is the short story: one business profession per chapter (one realtor, one [...]
Happy Birthday to James Starley and Thank You
Today in history… In 1830, James Starley, British inventor and father of the bicycle industry was born. One specific contribution was the tangentially spoked wheel, a huge improvement over the radially spoked version. That said, try to get out on your bike this week. The weather in South Jersey is finally looking like Spring!
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We Never Close
A sign on a door is a promise. This one promised service 24/7/365. Yet the store was only open 8 hours a day during the week and only 4 hours over the weekend. Sure, the owner was willing to put a phone number on the door and encourage a visitor to call if the store [...]
Yikes! WordPress.com Banned
Lorelle has posted the following article: WordPress.com Banned Again: Why Aren’t You Concerned? Lots of blogs are hosted for free through WordPress.com and I’m not specifically sure of the EULA for services like WordPress.com, Blogger, YouTube, Flickr and such. But it would seem to me that using one of these services includes some limits to [...]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare
In an effort to compete with Wikipedia, the de facto standard for bloggers, Encyclopaedia Britannica has launched Webshare… Here’s a quote from the site: A special program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy [...]
Workplace Experiments at 37signals
Jason Fried of 37signals offers the following post: Workplace Experiments What I especially like are the 4-day work weeks. It is a similar concept to Google giving you one day per week to work on your own projects, except the project is actually about making sure that you are fully rested and refreshed. It is [...]
Eye on the Prize
Check out my post on the World Wide Web Communications Blog: Eye on the Prize In summary, it is all about the purpose of your website, which is really to convert a stranger into a customer.
Switcher Alert: Big Blue enters Infinite Loop in Research
Something is rotten in the town of Redmond, Washington. IBM is using Macs. IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs And through the course of this pilot program, 86% of the users wanted to keep their Macs. A quote from the article… “When presenting at customer or external meetings, I have been greeted with [...]
From @denthewise – Network is Power