You’ll want to watch this one full-screen — click the arrows at the upper right of the video.
I’ve had some interesting conversations with clients and others who are having a difficult time really understanding how to use Twitter–even some basic things like what is all the stuff on the screen.
I realized there’s some assumed [...]
March 14, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer posted an interview with Liz Strauss of Successful Blog. Liz is the main organizer behind SOBcon, happening this May in Chicago. I’ll be going, and if you can swing it, I think it would be a tremendous benefit to anyone.
Here are some of the highlights:
It’s small: only 250 [...]
February 29, 2008 – 12:08 pm
Pop17’s Sarah Meyers got the scoop by asking Steve Chen (founder of YouTube) when they were gonna do live video. The answer is: 2008, this year. Check it out below:
The question and answer is shortly after the 3:00 mark.
What do you think? Any takers? Will YOU ever do live video? I definitely will experiment with [...]
February 28, 2008 – 7:28 am
Watch If You Can’t Blog It, Don’t Do It on YouTube.
If you were going to start a new business, what kind of business would it be?
Here’s the new litmus test: if you can’t blog it, don’t do it. Some businesses don’t have blogs and shouldn’t have blogs: oil companies, Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, whatever. Evil = [...]
February 27, 2008 – 6:38 am
The practice of accepting money for links is longstanding and has always been controversial. Services exist to broker and facilitate paid links between buyers and sellers, taking their cut off the top. The most famous of these is Text Link Ads. Some new ones have appeared, recently, but I’ll get into that later.
Paid links [...]
February 25, 2008 – 5:50 am
I call this post the Accidental Disclosure Manifesto because that’s what it became in the course of writing and recording it. Sometimes, these things happen. So kick back, grab a beer, and enjoy the ride…
Disclosure
If you’re catching this in a reader, you can watch the video on my blog, or here’s the Veoh link: Blogging [...]
February 20, 2008 – 9:49 am
Ethical
Commenting is a great way to drive traffic back to your blog and network with other bloggers. In fact, that is ALL it does. Links in comments do not affect your search engine rankings, as 99.99% of them will not be seen by Google (it’s called “no-follow” and it’s code your blog automatically adds [...]
January 8, 2008 – 10:15 am
I’ve said that mobile blogging will be big in 2008. That means that more folks will be both creating and consuming blog content via mobile devices. So the question has come up: Do you need a .mobi domain for your blog?
There is a lot of .mobi FUD and madness out there, and the combination is [...]
December 24, 2007 – 2:34 am
My Blog Booster project is a great success, but it brought me face to face with a lot of new blogs. Although I hate to say it, I saw some common beginner’s mistakes. Of course, I want to help everyone do the best they can, so as my little holiday gift to everyone, I made [...]
December 7, 2007 – 8:18 am
Tim Ferriss speaks at a viral marketing conference, but not about blogging. Except that it is about blogging, if you look at it that way. By telling how he marketed to bloggers, you can learn a lot about how to market yourself and your blog.
November 28, 2007 – 7:56 am
Blogging, commenting, tagging, and social media are all chief drivers in what’s happening with how people create, think about, and work with information. This brilliant video gave me goosebumps, and I just wanted to share it with you.
October 27, 2007 – 7:33 pm
What is your blog about?
Who are you?
Why should we trust you?
These are 3 questions your blog should answer within the first 5 seconds of a visitor’s arrival by its design and content.
October 18, 2007 – 5:49 am
Gateway blogging is a term I created that helps to frame business blogging activities so that the blog supports the business, and not the other way around.
October 16, 2007 – 1:00 pm
What are the differences between a so-called “normal” website and a business blog? Are there real advantages to a business blog that a normal website can’t give you? The video covers the following:
- Characteristics of static websites and blogs
- Blogs, search engine optimization, and people finding you
- Blogging is about the conversation, normal websites are about one-way marketing
October 6, 2007 – 8:48 pm
I don’t often post the work of anyone here but myself, but this is such great productivity advice that I can’t help but share it with you. Bloggers tend to be total information junkies and Tim’s radical advice for dealing with it is something I think we could all benefit from.
September 30, 2007 – 7:16 am
You can start video blogging for less than $40 and in under 2 hours. I explain how, with tips, and with a video, of course!
September 21, 2007 – 3:53 pm
Watch a video from Tubetorial on how to set up the Google Sitemap generator plugin for better WordPress SEO.
August 27, 2006 – 4:36 pm
I like to have something going on the side in addition to my regular job. In the past, I’ve run my own websites and designed websites for others. I’ve had a go at a couple of different ways doing things, some of which have worked out to greater or lesser degrees of success. For all [...]
Tom Peters writes about how business used to be “ready, aim, fire!” and later it became “ready, fire! aim,” but that nowadays it’s just “Fire! Fire! Fire!” When I first conceived the idea for Video Bubble, I didn’t think about it very much before acquiring a domain, hosting, and slapping up a sign-up homepage. I [...]
Today I received an email from someone who said they were impressed with my choices and the effort I put into it. This person offered to keep GVOD alive. He said he was from a video site start up and had the time. I had said in my farewell post at GVOD that I wouldn’t [...]
UPDATE: GVOD is alive and well! After a hiatus, I couldn’t bear to let it die. So please head on over there and gimme some love!
GoogleTube Video of the Day wasn’t fun, anymore, so today I killed it. I killed my blog! I had always said that when it wasn’t fun anymore I’d quit while [...]
February 19, 2006 – 2:23 pm
That’s right. At least the ones from Google Video do, and at a site called Google Video of the Day, those were the only ones I had on there. Archive pages actually crashed both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Before Google Video made it possible to copy the player code, I would download a thumbnail from the [...]
January 14, 2006 – 9:28 am
At first, it seems no better than some child’s toy, but keep watching: it gets better, and then it gets amazing. Like any real instrument, the basics are immediately grasped, but when you see how the settings can be changed and how they’re applied and how the instrument is played, you realize you could spend [...]
