Blogging is not easy.  I actually believe it is one of the hardest jobs one can have.  It gets even harder in my neck of the woods, but I continue pushing.  Why? Because I am passionate about putting information out here that will help others change their lives. Read more »

Have you ever had this happen to you?

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Shhh… don’t read this one out loud, it might start a riot. We don’t want to spark a looting spree, now do we?

On top of that, there are gurus who will want to buy me a new pair of shoes – cement shoes – for revealing this secret to getting the most out of social media. Read more »

Aside from Twitter, Facebook and BlogEnage, there are very few social networking sites you’ll see me getting excited about. Time constraints limit the amount of time I have to spend learning how to navigate every new site that pops up. In addition to that, there’s more to a social networking than simply joining a site, you have to take the time to authentically engage others – simply logging in and dropping a few links around the community won’t do. Read more »

I wanted to clarify my thoughts from my previous post about getting your content into the cloud. I mention some technologies here that people “breathe” every day, such as their subscribed feeds, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Our goal is not only to get people to our site, but to get our content to where they are so that it can act as a magnet to draw them to an intended destination.

Here’s a Youtube.com link to the video Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe.

Thoughts? Would love to hear them. Over the next week or two, I’ll be talking about specific techniques for infiltrating the cloud.

“Social media marketing” is a fad, a trend, and it’s raging with popularity right now. Will it last? Absolutely, but not as we know it today. Some of the buzz words will eventually be dropped and social media marketing will finally be seen for what it is – a very effective single prong of a multi-faceted way of sharing news about a person, product, or organization. But it still won’t reach my grandmother.

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When I first started using Twitter heavily, the #FollowFriday hashtag was just taking off, and I genuinely looked forward to Fridays because of it (which might be a sign of a social media addiction). I’ve always appreciated anybody that has mentioned me. But has #FollowFriday lost its original luster?

I say, if you enjoy #FollowFriday, keep it up, but I wanted to mention some possible alternatives to it that are also quite valuable.

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Think of all the ways there are to promote your blog.

You have Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Digg, and any other social media site.  Then you have blogging networks like Blogged, Blog Engage, and Blog Catalog.  Finally, there are the powers of word-of-mouth and then through any comment made on any other blog.

All of these are sure ways to make your blog known and promoting it even further.  But, do not be annoying when promoting your blog throughout these different methods.

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Who likes spam? Personally, I love it, seared in a pan with mayo on fresh bread with a slice of pepper jack! That’s one reason to be careful with the word spam. It’s pretty good stuff, and if everything washes away or burns up in December of 2012, the few who survive could live off of a stockpile of spam for quite some time.

Obviously, in the world of the internet, the word spam has come to refer to unsolicited commercial emails. There are rules about spam, and rightly so. I’m as opposed to spammy practices as anybody, but I also have another pet peeve and that is when people abuse the word spam, applying it to almost anything they don’t particularly like. For example…

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People who hang out online, whether on those things called “blogs” or those other things called “social networks” (especially Twitter and Facebook) are all really weird, right? They’re socially out-of-touch recluses who are damaging their psyches? Well, apparently NOT.

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