Shopping News Without Leaving Home
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
And to show my thanks, I want to help you navigate this weekend, which has long been known as the biggest shopping weekend of the year.
I just ran across a fun project to help. If you are like me and would rather be anywhere except a crowded shopping mall, this site is for you. BlackFridayWatch.com is covering the mall shop-a-thon with reporters dispatched throughout the country.
If you like to shop, look to this site bf2005.com for news about all of read more...
Blogging in a Crowded Marketplace The PRSA Survey [PDF], conducted with Harris Interactive, about attitudes toward media, marketing and public relations holds some interesting lessons for communicators who use blogs to communicate with their customers and the general public. I summarized some of the findings in my blog a few days ago that focus on the image of public relations. But in this entry I want to hone in on one of the results that showed blogs rising to the forefront read more...
Now Analytics Is Tracking
Google Analytics seems to be working today.
After I read a glowing article by Steve over at Micro Pursuasion It seems I became one of the lucky ones who got a Google Analytics account last week. This very cool tool helps to track site statistics.
Later Steve wrote another not so flattering post about the service being DOA. Like Steve, I had NO DATA after I set it up and verified my read more...
Learning Blogging Lessons
Okay, a few things I learned today. First, never write an important, detailed blog in the blogger interface. Second, write it in WordPad or a blogging hack, not in Word.
Today, I found that my RSS feed got all messed up because I had cut and paste something in from Word into a post. BAM! The whole thing fell apart. I went and removed the offending code and everything was back to normal.
While I was at Feedburner, I checked my stats and found out that I have five new subscribers. read more...
Fantastic Tool for Websites
I just ran across a fantastic tool to let you update your Website online called Edit.com.
We had similar modual created for us when I worked at MHI, but this seems to be a much easier solution and makes your Website as easy to update as your blog.
Neat! read more...