Today is Memorial Day. Is there a veteran in your family – who served from 1607 to 1975? From now until June 6, 2007 – the anniversary of D-Day, ancestry.com is putting 90 million war records online with free access. After that, you’ll have to pay about $155/year to get into the database. […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Cicada Watch is brought to you by CoryWest Media, a marketing/PR consultancy in the western suburbs of Chicago. Entries and images by Barbara Rozgonyi, founder of CoryWest Media and animal/insect lover. Enjoy! 05.28.08 Because traffic is picking up for this post, that tells me that the cicadas are on their […]
According to a new report, a family of five spends almost 60 hours, per week, collectively online. The Center for Media Research points to a Media-Screen report that tells marketers what browsers are looking for in their free time online: communications and entertainment tie for the top two time slots. […]
This article just went out to my Marketing Transformations Network News subscribers . . . When you explain the way things work in simple, basic and easy to understand language, you keep prospects engaged and on track to buy. Starting with the basics is an approach that works for all […]
Here’s a video of Mike Stewart’s presentation at Armand Morin’s Big Seminar in April 2007. In less than 90 minutes, Mike covers why you need a blog, how to upload audio and video and even what new media marketing can do for you as a niche celebrity. [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8368566220616494381&hl] Thanks to […]
If you’re not a corporate communicator, you may not know about Ragan Communications. I first heard about Ragan when one of my corporate consulting clients added me to their Ragan Report reading list. Because being mentioned by Ragan was a coveted honor, in planning meetings we mused about how Ragan would review our internal communications […]
Over the weekend, I got an invitation for a free subscription to Online Marketing Monthly, “the first professional magazine for the Internet marketing industry.” The confirmation email sent me to the Online Marketing Monthly blog where I found the results of the magazine’s readership response to this question: “What is your level of experience in Internet […]
Every week, Marketing Transformations Network News [MTN News], get articles like this one . . . Now that I’m in the new rules of marketing and PR book, I’m transitioning out of the traditional approach that’s built on air time and ink. Sure, it’s great to have TV, radio and […]
Over the weekend, Scott Allen announced the LinkedIntelligence Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn prize winners. When Scott called for entries in the Ask Liz Ryan Yahoo! group, I wrote up “The Top 10 Ways to Quickly Become a Subject Matter Expert Using LinkedIn.” Here’s my prize . . . Barbara […]
David Meerman Scott’s upcoming book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly[pre-order on Amazon], goes on the market in a few weeks. From the early editorial reviews [see later in post], this will be […]