Today, Compuserve celebrates the 30th anniversary of their debut as an online consumer service.

1979: CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers. CompuServe added a wealth of other features: near–real-time stock quotes, weather reports (with downloadable weather maps), lively forums, even airplane-ticket booking through the Eaasy Saabre system. And, of course, there was e-mail, which Compuserve apparently trademarked as “Email”.

Source: Wired Magazine

Now that we know where the term “email” originated, I have a question for …

Do you know what RSS stands for? Do you care? You do, if you want to get news delivered somewhere to you automatically online. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s like ordering online subscriptions to blogs, news sites, twitter updates or any content that has an RSS feed. Sounds kind of fancy to have your own syndication system when you think about it, but every blogger and person on twitter does.

If you’re on our email news update list [powered …

It’s Friday. I just crossed the 2,100 mark update on twitter and decided to share this ecourse I wrote to go out to my MTN newsletter subscribers. Now, my newsletter wears the Wired PR Works brand. Sending out a sequenced system like this works with email providers like Aweber – affiliate link.

Hope you find it useful. Because the report is seven pages long, I’m only posting the outline and the day one sequence here. To read the entire course, …

If you publish an email newsletter, you know that writing a compelling subject line is often the hardest part.

So, what does it take to get people to open your email? Is there a formula you can use to up your open rates? What can you learn from your email marketing about how your community and the media will respond to your message?

MarketingSherpa analyzed a year’s worth of their email open rates and came up with four takeaways. Open access …

Don’t email Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine.

In his post. “Sorry PR People You’re Blocked” at The Long Tail, Chris Anderson claims that PR spam is to blame for his inbox overload. Then he goes on to list the offending email addresses. If you don’t want to wind up on this list, don’t email him. But do read Wired magazine.

Recommendations: one for bloggers and one for PR people

Bloggers or …

Here’s a scary, slimy story that happened on Halloween.

They came from Poland, Paris, Russia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Estonia and Buffalo . . .

When I checked my Aweber stats today, I noticed that every one of the new email addresses on one of my more dormant lists hadn’t yet confirmed their subscription.

Usually I write this off to lack of interest, a language barrier or inbox overload. But since 100% hadn’t confirmed, I decided to dig deeper.

A string of questions about email systems recently caught my attention. Because I find myself wanting to answer every one, I’m consolidating my thoughts into this reference post.

For awhile now, I’ve been wanting to share the benefits of using AWeber. As a customer for over a year and an affiliate [yes, this post contains affiliate links], I decided the time was right after a comment came up in my marketing execution class this week.

When one of my students told me her programmer …

I admit it. I love to give stuff away. Today’s MTN free ezine subscribers got treated to a video marketing report – as my gift. Now, in our house Easter is not a gift holiday [well, no gifts over $25], but what’s nice about having a list of loyal readers is that I can give away free information whenever I want. Like today’s guide, which is packed with links, ideas and resources. Want to join my herd? Sign up for a …

 Just got the approval email from New-List.com  that our ezine, Markeing Transformations Network News is now included in their ezine database directory.