creative Twitter bios (Part 2)

Micro-content includes email subject lines, forum topic thread titles, blog taglines, company slogans, microblog/status update messages (Tw...

creative Twitter bios (Part 1)

A few years ago, in 2005, I did a post called Blog Taglines Experiment , which got the attention of BusinessWeek. It was a study of the slog...

determining website content

Strange as it may seem, one of the most frustrating aspects of website design is content. Why? Because many clients are a bit unclear about ...

Battle at Kruger example of good video content

Here's a video showing water buffalo banding together to kick the some lion butt, to rescue a baby. It won a YouTube award for Best Eyew...

web usability testing is mandatory

Is your website easy for your audience to use? Can your customers quickly find the information they seek? Do your fans enjoy using your webs...

8 secret truths about blogs

Every once in a while, an MSM journalist troll will claim that blogs are no good. My guess is their boss told them to wake up and smell the ...

using social media to bash social media

You've probably seen them. The anti- Cluetrain trolls. The web-enabled enemies of the web revolution. I mean: people who use blogs, Twi...

3 tips for video commercials

If you use video commercials to promote products, be sure to keep in mind these tips: (1) Show the product or client in use, solving a probl...

9 values of CEO blogging

CEO blogs are a great way to show customers that you're personally interested in them. One of the biggest complaints about CEOs is that ...

Vuk Cosic and ASCII Art VIDEO

Vuk Cosic makes the internet fun. He's a pioneer in net art. http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ If you're a blogger, web designer, digit...

auto-morphing ecommerce sites

MIT Technology Review has an article on how websites might be more "alive", i.e., interactive, by morphing according to in-the-mo...

Twitter on CBS News VIDEO

The mainstream media tries to understand and report on microblogging tool Twitter. Along with Jaiku, Pownce, and Plurk, Twitter is used for ...

cyber bullies and blogocombat

Parents and teachers need to prepare children for blogocombat. I recently watched a news program on television, about a young boy who killed...

Sources Quoting Steven E. Streight

Some samples of quotes, citations, and published articles by or about Steven E. Streight, web content developer and social media strategist....

social media tactics

New to social media? Not sure how to interact with social networks? Wondering what to do, and what to avoid doing? Thinking about how to mar...

7 characteristics of blog comment spam

Some companies will pay bloggers and comment posters to say nice things about their products, and bad things about competitors. Don't fa...

Blip is the Twitter of music

Just a brief note to announce a discovery: Blip. It's like a blend of Twitter and Last.fm While Twitter asks "What are you doing?&q...

end of face to face communications?

Due to soaring gas prices, the airline, trucking, and many other businesses are suffering huge losses and insecurity. Some city governments ...

World of Wifecraft

What if marriage could be transformed into a World of Warcraft type video game in the real world? Confused? Watch this, it's pretty funn...

12 horrible sales presentation mistakes

I've been to a lot of sales presentations lately, and nearly all of them bore, repulse, or annoy. I mean, I like the people who present ...