January 21, 2010

Reader error - it doesn't exist

Uneducated clod, or missed opportunity?

Sitting in the hot muggy class room I was getting over last night’s wild dorm party,  and wondering when I was going to see that girl again. Where did she say she lived?

Then the words, that have haunted me ever since, came out of an old and rumpled instructor’s mouth.

“In [...]

January 6, 2010

Our own little worlds

The mass of instant information that is the Internet and Mass Media could free each and everyone of us to become more informed and knowledgeable.  Then we could all come together as a new smarter, kinder society and deal with all of our problems in wise and wonderful ways.

But that’s not exactly what’s happening is [...]

December 15, 2009

QUICK REVIEW: LOGIC EXPRESS

QUICK REVIEW: LOGIC EXPRESS

 

by Jorge Paez

 

Logic Express is the most advanced suite of software out there for music production and at the lowest cost.  Another Apple product, the only downside is that it only works on Macintosh.  It comprises at the basic, or express version, of just one piece, called Logic Express.

 

This is a more [...]

November 13, 2009

New plugin installed - mp3 player

From a suggestion from Prentiss, I have installed a plugin for the wordpress that will automatically change a link to a uploaded mp3 file into a player…..Say what now?

If you have a audio file and it is in the format of mp3 (the suffix is .mp3 instead of .wav or .doc or .xls or .pdf, [...]

November 10, 2009

Writing on

Lately,  just trying to keep up with the giant in-rush of new writers, and styles they bring to the Internet, has been quite a chore.  Thousands of journalists are out of a job and are facing a dim future where the kind of hard hitting and communicative writing they excelled at is, no longer enough [...]

November 4, 2009

How Not To Make Online Marketing Blunders

Have you been wondering how not to make marketing blunders when it comes to your website and [...]

October 14, 2009

Can Customer Feedback Increase Your Sales?

What are your customers saying about your products or services? Are you sharing your customer testimonials with your future customers and [...]

October 10, 2009

TWEEDY: THE WORST SOLUTION FOR THE BLIND

TWEEDY: THE WORST SOLUTION FOR THE BLIND

 

October 10, 2009

Rapid Weaver: A Site Without Stress

Rapid Weaver: A Site Without Stress

 

September 24, 2009

Meh: Comments.

In the last couple of weeks I have been learning about the various contributors on SWI (Speak Without Interruption), particularly about their reaction to comments.

We have a good amount of contributors who are not interested in comments at all.  They post monolithic essays espousing their fixed opinion, conspiracy theory or ad campaign and they’re [...]

September 9, 2009

The latest social media site – collision or synergy?

When I was studying for an MBA not so long ago, the theory was that the market preferred technology to diverge rather than to converge – people wanted to have individual products to achieve specific ends rather than to have one gizmo that tried to do everything. So nobody voted for a piece of software [...]

September 5, 2009

Happiness on Facebook

Happiness on Facebook

by David Leonhardt 

Have you seen this Facebook app to support the positive psychology  exercise “Three Good Things”?  Participants in this exercise record  Three Good Things, and the reasons why they happen, every day. There  are some other versions of this exercise out there (including an  iPhone app and one on happier.com), but this is [...]

September 4, 2009

Look who follows NoFollow links!

Look who follows NoFollow links!

by David Leonhardt

Earlier this year, I speculated on how the search engines treat NoFollow links.  For those who might be a little green, NoFollow links are not totally ignored by the search engines.  For those who really, really green, NoFollow links are believed to be totally ignored by the search engines [...]

August 30, 2009

Snowleopard: The Truth Revealed

Snowleopard: The Truth Revealed

 

by Jorge Paez

 

August 28, 2009

Question: Is Marriage Dead?

Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"

I’m half way through my two month blog tour on relationships.  The stops have generally been both interactive and productive.  I’ve particularly like the stops where the topics were questions related to relationships.

I wanted to share one in particular, at the Long Relationships blog. [...]

August 24, 2009

Where are the Parents?

Where are the Parents?

by Lloyd Lofthouse

There is nothing to envy about many American families. They are in worse shape than the economy.

My wife is Chinese. She lived in China the first twenty-eight years of her life. She is now an American citizen. In China and other Asian countries, family is important.

If you study Confucian [...]

August 18, 2009

Seamus—Irish Musings—Fun Part of Writing

Book signings. Absolutely love them. Not the tepid white wine of some vintage in the plastic glass with the runny cheese on a paper plate. Nope. It’s when I get to meet the real reason I [...]

July 16, 2009

5 Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

Have you screamed, “I need traffic to my website!”? With over 500 million Google searches taking place daily: How do you get traffic to your [...]

July 13, 2009

The Kindle DX, Part 2

The Kindle DX, Part 2

By Jack Rochester

The last post concerned the introduction of the Kindle DX, intended for the college textbook market. We’ve had a number of responses, including one from a publisher’s sales manager who informed us that Pearson Education has jumped on the bandwagon with the Kindle. More on this next week.

Today, we [...]

July 12, 2009

Evolution of an E-book Author to Publisher by Rob Walker

Evolution of an E-book Author to Publisher by Rob Walker

Sure every author wishes to be discovered by Random House or another of the biggies of NYC but since my first publication in 1979 the pinnacle of publication has gotten thinner, higher, spikier, snarkier, and harder and harder to manage. In fact, since the early eighties, [...]

July 10, 2009

Start a Business? Are You Ready?

 

    Do you plan to give up your job and start a new business of your [...]

July 9, 2009

Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki endorse networking as a business. Do you have what it takes for this industry?

So you want to start a home based business now what?

You have made the decision to become an entreprenuer and start a home based business but with so many different comensation plans, products, established companies and start up businesses the choice can become a daunting task.

If you have been searching you will hear over and [...]

July 5, 2009

Am I Ready to Start a Business? 10 personal questions to ask yourself before you commit

 

     No, we won’t begin with “Do you have a master’s degree?” Although education does matter, higher education is not a requirement for starting or succeeding in a new business. In fact, according to a 1992 United States Census Bureau report, [...]

July 1, 2009

5 Ways To Improve Sales Through Your Website

Almost everyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of book marketing and internet marketing is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more [...]

June 26, 2009

LA RELEVANCIA DEL ZAPATO

En estos días muy próximos a las elecciones intermedias en México, los temas de discusión central han sido el voto nulo y el voto blanco. Al buscar en Google la combinación exacta “voto nulo” obtenemos 495 mil referencias. Con la combinación “voto blanco”, 363 mil [...]

June 24, 2009

Want a link to a throw-away domain?

Want a link to a throw-away domain?

by David Leonhardt

 

A while back, I wrote about why to ignore three-way link requests.  Many of the reasons I listed had to do with the quality of the site linking back to you.  But what if it’s a PR3 home page.  Sounds like a juicy link to score, doesn’t [...]

May 28, 2009

Who owns your Twitter account?

Who owns your Twitter account?

by David Leonhardt

So here is a legal conundrum.  You’ve been active on a number of social media websites, such as Twitter, FaceBook or Digg.  You have amassed a number of friends and followers and built a certain amount of credibility.  You leave your job – take a better position elsewhere, move [...]

May 20, 2009

4 Reasons Why Writing Articles Is An Affordable Book Marketing Method

Content is king. You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Internet marketing medium today. Internet surfers just can’t get enough of information on various topics and subjects. Providing information through these articles is a surefire way to drive traffic to almost any [...]

May 14, 2009

SEO Strategies for Financial Websites

SEO Strategies for Financial Websites

by David Leonhardt

Here are a few SEO tips specific to financial websites. 

First, understand that people are very sensitive and possessive about their money.  Your website has to ooze credibility if you want to convert traffic to customers.  You probably know this already, but keep it in mind when you hire an [...]

May 13, 2009

The Bugs Bunny Guide to Linkbuilding

The Bugs Bunny Guide to Linkbuilding

by David Leonhardt

Have you ever been hard at work, doing what you do, and suddenly got struck by the immortal question – “What would Bugs Bunny do?” Me too. All the time. Well, if you are doing link-building, you are in luck, because here is what Bugs Bunny would do:

“What’s [...]