The other day I had a short, but very interesting conversation on Twitter with Tim Walker and Julie Hunt, two Austin-area web marketing pros. It all started with this tweet from Tim ...
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Last week I took #3 son and two of his friends to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Like the other times we've gone, we had a good time riding the rides and watching the shows. Of course, being the web marketing geek I did notice they are doing some interesting things in social media. It...
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TweetThe PubCon folks offered up some great training in Austin, Texas on July 21st. Some excellent speakers were lined up who presented some excellent search marketing information. There were two tracks offered: “SEO: Organic Search Optimization” and “Social Media Marketing.” Jen and I hung out in the Social Media track and weren’t disappointed. I...
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Godin starts out Linchpin: Are You Indispensible? (Amazon Affiliate link) insisting everyone is a genius, though, perhaps, not in the “genius” way we think of Einstein, Hawking or other Nobel Prize winners. He stresses, though, that everyone is a genius in their own way. Each of us has something in us which makes us...
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Facebook, despite its privacy shortcomings, is a tool many of us use to keep in touch with friends and family. I find it extremely useful to maintain relationships with many I know who live, literally, around the world. For the vast majority of people, using Facebook will not cause any real issues; but, there...
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This past weekend during our church 4th of July picnic, I had an opportunity to talk social media marketing with someone who has a different objective than most of us. Rich is not a business person, though he does work in business. Right now he's just "passing through" while he and his wife work...
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Yesterday evening Jen and I headed down to Dave & Buster's in Austin for the Austin Internet Marketing Meetup featuring Brett Tabke of Webmaster World and PubCon. Brett spoke for about an hour around social media SEO and protecting your web efforts from rogue SEO tactics.
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Last week I was called upon by Megan Fleetwood, a reporter with KWTX in Waco, to offer up some comments about social media security and safety. In this case it was specifically regarding the safety of kids on social sites.
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Andy Beal is an expert in reputation management on the web. His knowledge on the subject is vast, thoughtful and expert. For that reason it is quite appropriate he should co-author a book (as the subtitle reads) "Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online." He and Dr. Judy Strauss succeeded quite well with their book, Radically...
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I've been helping a colleague set up a blog which replaces a monthly print newsletter. One of the concerns my colleague had was that some customers who subscribed to the print version of this newsletter are new to blogs and might not know how to get automatic updates. After thinking about how to tackle...
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