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Twitter as RSS: Reciprocally Stupid Syndication

I keep thinking about the idea that “Twitter is killing RSS,” and it makes me uncomfortable.
I’ll leave it to the technologists to debate the merits of using Twitter vs. RSS from a network standpoint — my own misgivings are cultural. It goes back to my nightmare scenario of a wasteland of marketers blasting tweets at [...]

Reacting to Social Media-Inflamed Crises: Amazon vs. Domino’s

I think enough time — gosh, like a whole week — has gone by so we can be sufficiently clear-headed to draw wildly self-serving and far-reaching conclusions from the latest Twitter-enabled, blog-powered, marketing and PR dustup/corporate nightmare scenario. In fact, we’ve got two of them, so we can do an episode of compare and contrast: [...]

Event Review: eDemocracy Camp 2

This past Sunday was the 2009 edition of the eDemocracy Camp unconference, at the particularly-apt location of the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at George Washington University in DC.
I rolled in little after the introductory remarks but just before the sessions started (so I guess I missed the round-robin “three words” participant [...]

Network Solutions DNS Update

Update: 10.36 A.M: April 23rd 2009
Please accept our apologies for the slowness of our DNS services on April 21st 2009. We work very hard to deliver on the promise of providing the best services at all times and we realize we did not meet our service assurance to some of the internet users in this [...]

Escape from Cubicle Nation’s Pamela Slim Sheds Light on the Small Business Success Index

Below is a snippet of her thoughts about the Small Business Success Index. For the full interview, visit the Grow Smart Business Blog.

Pamela Slim is a business coach, writer and the founder of Ganas Consuling LLC. She started her company in 1996 with the intention of management consulting, leadership development and most importantly – being [...]

Five Do’s For Consulting Newbies

With over 533,000 people laid off since November 2008 as reported by Forbes.com, it’s no surprise that many people choose to start their own business and become consultants. If you’re just jumping into the field as an independent consultant or starting a new consulting business, here are five do’s to follow.
1. Do focus on your [...]

Turning to the Internet for success during a recession – Email Marketing

With any online program, in order to extend your reach to the masses, one crucial part to have to your strategy would be to have a mass distribution channel. You could resort to sending out your marketing messages through traditional snail mail, but there are a few things that could affect its performance: not-targeted enough, [...]

LinkTogether: FREE Two Month PRO Account So You Can Add Cash Money to the Attention Economy

I got a ping from Product Marketing Manager Bonnie Williams, asking me to check out Network Solutions’ new service, LinkTogether. It’s a cool concept — a service, built around a community, where Web designers and developers can show off their wares — including graphic assets, stock photos, code snippets, and Web templates — and maybe [...]

Rock Star Entrepreneurs and Your Business: a Webinar Event 4/30th

Some talented business thinkers, leaders, movers-and-shakers are headed to a browser near you!
Ideas will soar at this event (and you’re invited).
(image by Jody Art, Creative Commons)
Small business success, brainstorms, and you
At the end of this month, Grow Smart Business – a new Network Solutions blog, resource hub, and home to the Small Business Success Index [...]

Rules for Entrepreneurs #4 – 5 Ways to Avoid Small Business Death by $100 Expenses

When I started my first business as an adult and left the warm blanket of a steady paycheck I also left the fuzzy fun of expense reports. Those detailed reports on excel spreadsheets full of stapled pages of photocopied receipts that we got paid back on eventually (usually in 2-4 weeks) and were part of [...]