10 Simple Rules to Effective Personal Branding
June 24, 2009 :: Steve FisherLast month, Jay Berkowitz came by the Network Solutions office for a visit to speak about the Web in 2010. It was a great presentation and we did a great write up on it too. However, there was one point in the presentation which deserves its own post and that is Area #9 – Personal [...]
Barcamp Baltimore Recap
June 23, 2009 :: Steve FisherThis past Saturday at University of Baltimore, Dave Troy and the Barcamp Organizers put together Barcamp Baltimore 2009. For a warm and rainy Saturday it was well-attended and I wore my Barcamp Austin 2009 badge which generated alot of conversation.
For those of you not familiar with this type of event, BarCamp is an international network [...]
Exploring It All With The Conversation Prism
June 23, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungBack in August 2008, public relations professional, author of the book Putting Public Back In Public Relations and creator of the term “PR 2.0″, Brian Solis released what is called the Conversation Prism. But what exactly is this Conversation Prism? According to Solis, it’s to help “provide a visual representation of the true expansiveness of [...]
Social Media and Major (and Minor) Movements
June 23, 2009 :: Joe LoongOriginally, this was going to be an entry about some examples of people using social media to mobilize people into action around causes. The examples I was going to go with were two DC-specific things of admittedly minor importance. The first was the cancellation (due to lack of sponsorship) of a popular free outdoor summer [...]
Transparency vs. Overdisclosure at 30,000 Feet
June 22, 2009 :: Joe LoongSo of course you’ve heard the story from Thursday about the Continental Airlines pilot who had a heart attack and died in the middle of a transatlantic flight.
Fortunately for the rest of the folks on the plane, the co-pilot and a fully-qualified relief pilot were on hand to land the plane without incident. In fact, [...]
Upcoming SEO Event on 6/24 – SEO for Realtors in Atlanta, Georgia
June 22, 2009 :: Scott LawrenceSure, you can learn my secrets to SEO in three minutes (man that sounded like an infomercial) but you can get it straight from the source and from the experts in the business. Coming up on Wed, June 24 in Atlanta, GA, Network Solutions is hosting an event where you will get an in-depth look [...]
What’s In A Business Name? You Would Be Surprised
June 22, 2009 :: Steve FisherThe following is a guest post by Toby Bray, Principal of Clarity Markets, a full service Sales and Marketing Consultancy with over twenty years experience in operating and growing companies. This topic is something that Toby and I spoke of often especially when I was going through a renaming of my business. He has some [...]
Spam and the Tyranny of Twitter Trending Topics
June 19, 2009 :: Joe LoongIn my earlier entry recapping the BlogPotomac conference, I mentioned that the #blogpotomac hashtag made the list of Twitter trending topics — it’s featured in the sidebar on the Twitter home page, and is consequently viewed by a boatload of people.
Naturally, because of all the eyeballs, it’s seen as valuable real estate, and it’s an [...]
Twitter-cabulary
June 19, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungAre you aware of the growing popularity of Twitter? It’s usage by people in all types of businesses find themselves using the microblogging application for all sorts of uses. But what I’ve come to find out is that there’s a whole new vocabulary that needs to be learned in order to fully take advantage of [...]
Year with GTD – Six Months with GTD and Going Strong
June 19, 2009 :: Steve FisherIt is nearly the end of June and about six months after I started implementing the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. Things are starting to smooth out and it has become natural to use this system once you find your mix of tools and how you can most effectively leverage the system based on your [...]
