Live in the Chicago area? Love celebrating? Interested in social media? Here’s an event for you. June 30 is Mashable Social Media Day. To celebrate, Digital Innovation Forum [DIF] is hosting a Blog Birthday Bash / Summer Social in Glen Ellyn, at the heart of DuPage County. RSVP for Mashable Social Media Day on June…
From time to time, I share a client’s press release, this time about a live broadcast from our client’s studio. Here’s one that’s full of all kinds of fun angles. My great friends, MJ Tam, Doung Sheahan, Nancy Look and Beth Rosen will be broadcasting live from Drury Design Kitchen and Bath Studio in downtown…
Question: What is the most difficult AND most effective social marketing tactic? a.) paying celebrities to tweet for you b.) designing a kick [insert word choice here] Facebook landing page c.) throwing an open bar event for 10,000 people with [insert talent choice] d.) engaging bloggers in a long-term relationship
First, let me be completely up front about the fact that this my daughter, Phoebe. And, yes we’re both wearing wedding dresses. Well, dresses we would wear to weddings. After all, we are in the Gold Coast Room at the Drake and this is the eve of the Royal Wedding. Now that you have this…
Wondering what went on at SOBCon? Let me tell you . . . this post is one of several in a series. Deciding who to sit with can affect your SOBCon outcome. Your table is your group. This year, I got really lucky. Two people left our table because it was too busy for them,…
Get ’em while they’re almost 50% off – only through March 15!BlogWorld New Media Expo 2011 in New York City tickets just went on sale. You’ll pay only $695 instead of $1295 for an all access pass. There’s a reason I’ve attended every single BlogWorld ever: this is the very best all-around event for anyone…
TODAY (Thursday, January 20th) is the last day to save 50% on tickets to Blogging Success Summit 2011–the online conference for business bloggers brought to you by BlogWorld. Disclosure: all links in this post are affiliate links, which means that marketers receive a commission in exchange for promoting a product. What can 23 experienced marketers…
Looking for content marketing blogs to follow? Junta42 just announced their latest list. Congrats to Lee Odden, Brian Solis and David Meerman Scott for earning the top three spots. Here’s how Junts42 ranked 431 content marketing blogs
Group product review of the Samsung ST 600 from Sears Electronics.
It’s back, and bigger, with 7,200 bloggers responding. This post cover 12 plus comments on Technorati’s seventh annual report, The 2010 bloggers mix breaks down into 65% hobbyists, 21% self-employed, 13% part-timers and 1% corporate. A global survey, 2010 geographic demographics divide into: 33% US, 38% North American, 19% EU, 8% AAPC and 2% South…
Register now for BlogWorld and save 15% on Thursday, Weekend or Full Access Passes. I’m going to BlogWorld Expo – for the fourth time – and wow, it would be really cool if you were, too. Even better? You can save 15% . And then the price goes up, up, up. If you’re thinking of…
Flash back to 2000. . .. that’s the year I bought http://wiredwriting.com. With plans to use the site as a space to teach people about how to communicate more effectively online, I knew that writers would need to upgrade their skills – even if they were A+ students offline. Today, I teach wired writing workshops…
Done. In a click of a link, this blog is now running on WordPress 3.0 Named in honor of Thelonius Monk and released today, WordPress 3.0 follows WordPress 2.9 named after Carmen McCrae. What comes packed in the new version? Here’s a quick roundup of highlights and a video. Please share links and insights so…
My bio has a new line: The mother of three, Barbara is a contributor to Chicago Moms Blog. I. Am. Not. A. Mommy. Blogger. I am a mom who blogs. So, call me a mom blogger; a women who blogs who also happens to be a mom; or the mother of two teens and a…
A simple code keys into a new social media infographic. Yellow is for content. Red is for channels. D means data rich. Four points cover the spectrum: awareness, consideration, centralized and decentralized. How best to interpret this? In New Content Marketing Infographic: “The Content Grid” Joe Chernov, the new director of content marketing at Eloqua,…
Even though I don’t have an iPhone, I want iPhone apps. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve said, “If I had an iPhone, I could _______________.” That’s the personal side. From the business side, I looked into making iPhone apps for clients a few months ago. We found a developer who said…
It’s almost the end of the year, so I decided to take a look back, review and wrap up my top 12 posts. This tidy bundle fits into a 34 page social media marketing, PR, twitter collage ebook, which you can download here. How I chose my top marketing, social media and PR posts ….
Named in honor of jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, WordPress 2.9 Carmen is the popular blogging platform’s latest upgrade. Guide to upgrading to WordPress 2.9 from freshworkshops.com. Installing the latest version took one click. It was so easy I didn’t think to check into what came along with the updates until I opened an email from…
For my friends in the Chicago area . . . Search Engine Strategies is offering these free clinics and workshops [FTC Disclosure: Thanks to Search Engine Strategies Chicago for granting me a platinum pass, valued at $1995, in exchange for coverage. Watch @wiredprworks and Wired PR Works for session coverage and commentary.] Free Search Engine…
Confession: I love jewelry that sparkles – preferably a lot. To make stones sparkle, they have to be cut to catch light. To be attractive, they need to be shaped. To be displayed, they have to be set. Stones come in many colors, sizes, cuts and shapes. But, they all start out as a rough…
I’m working on a writing project. This one needs to be more mainstream. So, I tested it out for grade level and readability. While it’s cool to know that I wrote it at the same level that New York Times readers read: 11.5, it’s not so cool that I’m writing for high brow audiences. Because…
“That was a great post. I can tell you spent lots of time on it.” – recent comment Well, not as much time as you think and I have Yubby to thank for that. Back at BlogWorld in Las Vegas, I met Vincent from Yubby [and Amsterdam!] as he and Daniel Honigman were exchanging contact…
At BlogWorld Expo, Steve Rubel talked about how to use technology to stream your business and your life from email to a site based on a platform called Posterous, pronounced päs-t(?-)r?s. Hope your find these note from Steve’s session to be helpful and informative. Image: Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer introduces Steve Rubel. What,…
Attention bloggers . . . as of December 1, you are accountable for reporting any freebies you get in exchange for arranged exposure – at least I think that’s right. At a long 81 pages long, the FTC guide concerning the endorsements and testimonials in advertising is a challenge to interpret. Unless, of course, you’re…
Approximately 100 posts ago, I wrote about how I wanted to redesign and rebrand this blog. Before: All that’s left of my former blog is this screenshot I grabbed from Technorati. Qualities Before: Messy, unorganized, text-heavy, out dated and totally not reader [or author] friendly. After: What do you think? Qualities After: What do you…
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