I’m always fascinated with Twitter tools. Some have been just blah and some could prove to be genuinely useful. I found Twendz last week and been watching a few topics through it. It’s fast becoming one of my favorite social network conversation mining tools.
Twitter trends are nothing new. Twitter itself has introduced trending topics in [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to the panel at South by Southwest about selling brands and companies on the idea of engaging via social media. To me, it’s difficult to believe that companies still need to be convinced that this is a viable medium, yet there is a true language barrier between advertisers [...]

File sharing has never been a problem for me. Whip out the FTP program and upload to one of my sites, send the people I want to share the file with a URL. But then Drop.io happened. I tried it and oh my now FTP seems like such an archaic way to share large files. [...]

Shama Hyder invited Mari Smith to chime in on her wonderful FaceBook presentation at Blog World. In this video, Mari talks about making friends with key, influential people on FaceBook. An info-packed 5 minutes from BlogWorld 08.Thanks Mari!
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As freelance writers, we have devoted a whole lot of our time to writing SEO articles. It was fun to meet an actual SEO organization in the flesh while at BlogWorld. The thing that we liked about this SEO Champion was their focus on “organic” optimization. We are big fans of writing [...]

Unfortunately, Tamara and I are not so tech-savvy when it comes to things like…um…tech. So, we’re really grateful for the help of people who are able to set up and design blogs and web sites. If it wasn’t for them, the two of us would probably be painting on cave walls or something.
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I recently took Susan’s press release writing class at SparkplugU, and she had some great things to say about PR Web. As you can imagine, I was pretty excited to see them at BlogWorld. Basically, their service helps you get your press releases into the hands of the right media outlets. I [...]

After facilitating an enlightening panel on podcasting with audio and video, I got to pick the brain of Jim Kukral a bit more and get some great tips on how to get started with video blogging.
Jim points out that online video is really not that difficult. He uses a $150 Flip Video Camcorder and a [...]

I caught up with Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, after the SEO session at Blog World Expo and asked him what the key motivating factor was that catalyzed his pursuit of the 4-hour work week.
Tim also points out that excessive action is a form [...]

I asked Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, at the end of our interview on how to use social media to promote your eCommerce business the following question – “If you had it to do all over again, what would you do different?”
His answer might surprise you!
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