The other day I ran across a neat tool that generates a word cloud for a blog. This is different than a tag cloud. A tag cloud is a cloud of words based on how you’ve tagged your blog posts. As such, you obviously influence the cloud based on how you tag your posts. The word cloud, however, looks at…
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10 Ways to Use a Blog
Did you know that over 57 million Americans read blogs? U.S. blog readers average 23 hours online each week! An average of 64% of Canadians visited blogs in 2007. And 10% of online consumers in the U.K. read blogs at least once a month.
I converted a valuable list designed for nonprofits (Net2 blo…
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It’s Awfully Crowded Out There
Is too much of a good thing a bad thing? The answer to that lies somewhere between black and white, in the very depths of gray.
The easier question to answer is this: When many of us are doing the same thing, do customers and clients benefit? The obvious answer is yes, because choice allows indivi…
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Dear Flaks: Please Tape This to the Side of Your Computer
Back in the 80s, when I ran my own PR firm, hapless junior account people who worked for powerful Howard Rubenstein PR shared an office that had a baseball diamond on the wall.
If you placed a story in, say, The New York Post, you got a base hit. Get ink in the Times and you got a home run. Traini…
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In 2004, the Kryptonite Lock Company handled a blog storm so badly it was actually awarded Business 2.0 Magazine’s Dumbest Business Moment of the Year Award. Recently, the company again ran into a thorny problem. But this time, Kryptonite handled it in a way that could win them a Smart Way to Handle…
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