Blog Security: Use Your Blog to Achieve Success

Job security is an oxymoron. Feeling secure in a job is old fashioned. "Get a good job and hang onto it" is no longer the way to s...

25 Reasons Why People Don't Post Comments

Here are my speculations as to why people don't reply to your online content (blog posts, Twitter tweets, G+ articles, etc.), based on m...

12 Common Blog Mistakes

(1) No editorial linking strategy. Not linking to online sources when quoting them, or as references under a Further Reading type category a...

Typo and Spam Destruction of English Language

Two things are destroying the English language. They're happening online, and you may be guilty of generating or tolerating them both. I...

12 tips for creating business blog content

One of the major problems for business blogs is "What kind of content should I put on it?" Business owners often stop right there....

Naturally Yours example of a business blog

I sold a blog design to the manager of Naturally Yours Grocery about 3 years ago. When their employee blogger decided it was time for him to...

18 aspects of high quality blog content

18 Aspects of High Quality Blog Content (1) Radiant : Immediate visual impression of credibility, authority, and propriety via color, desig...

5 Ways to Promote a Blog

You've started a blog. It's exciting to post an article and publish it to the web. You learn a little HTML. You tweak some colors an...

Tell Peoria blogger meeting 1

Billy Dennis aka Peoria Pundit held a meeting a Copper River Coffee & Tea on War Memorial today. We discussed blog networks, blog ads, c...

domination systems vs social media

Social media is being mocked again. With all the social unrest and uprisings that we see in the world today, the protests and attempted topp...

TechCrunch hacked twice now

The above screen capture shows that TechCrunch has been hacked again. I heard that they explained the first hack as being NOT a hack, but a ...

TechCrunch hacked by porn jerk

For the first time that I can recall, TechCrunch, one of the world's top 5 most popular blogs, has been hacked. There has been some fluc...

The Jobless, Darwinian Economic Recovery

You've heard about the Jobless Recovery. Experts predict that only Wall Street, banks, and a few large corporations will thrive, while t...

Wolf Blitzer vs. Robert Gibbs on Transparency

One of the core values of blogging is transparency. We early bloggers used to chant "Authenticity. Transparency. Integrity." as a ...

I'm guest blogging at Naturally Yours

I'm currently guest (not ghost) blogging at my client's blog, Naturally Yours . Guest blogging means you, in your own name, contrib...

corporate websites vs social media

Many companies, despite the advice of so-called social media gurus and blog conferences, still fail to prominently display their Twitter, Yo...

interview with Vaspers on blogs and blogging

Here's an audio interview I did over the phone about 5 years ago. Interviewer is Chris Ritke of 49 Media. It's the only interview I...

what is wrong with social media marketing

Most social media marketing is simply gaming and exploiting the online communities. The core values of blogging, and social network etiquett...

social media marketing is (mostly) evil

Social media. Sounds nice. There's a media, a place of connection between various parties, and it's social. Like an ice cream social...