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Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

Consumers are more empowered than ever to research and review nearly any product they plan to purchase. As traditional advertisers lose control over the masses by dropping attention towards television, radio and print media; they ramp up their efforts to commercially drive the conversation on the Web. There’s a good way to do it as much as there is a bad way. I’ll share best practices for companies and bloggers for sponsored conversations, and how to do it right. Read the rest of this entry »

With the recent Twitter growth, I’ve noticed a trend between the frequency, quality and purpose of blogging versus Tweeting. Guilty as charged, I’ve been blogging much less than I have before, but not because I haven’t had opinions and commitment for community, but because of my infatuation with Twitter. I’ll compare and contrast some observations between Twitter and Blogging. Read the rest of this entry »

What is a brand versus a reputation? Many people might think they’re the same, but they’re not. I had a lot of thoughts on this, especially as I work on branding my personal and professional personalities, and building reputations. Read the rest of this entry »

In a post on the AOL’s official Mail product blog, AOL insults Google’s GMail product in typical insincere tirade regarding product parity. If there was anything friendly about the entry, it wasn’t made clear to readers. Either this is a PR stunt, or the author had one too many spiked drinks at the office on Halloween. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, folks. It’s been a while since I blogged on here about my personal events. Well, I’m going to be hitting up a local/regional venue known as PodCampAZ. I’m going for a few reasons, but mainly because I’ve discovered a whole subculture out here of social media mavens and producers right here, in Phoenix! Read the rest of this entry »

Probably the best news yet for AOL Journals users — you can now migrate your AOL Journal to Google’s Blogger easily.  AOL did make good on their promise to provide an easy way for users to export their blog contents to a third-party. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, I posted one method to crawl and backup your entire AOL Journals destination. In theory, that can also work with Hometown. One limitation is that it is pretty advanced for people to do, and there is room for error. Today, Marah from Anti-AOL has another method that makes it much easier for AOL Users. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a couple days since AOL users were notified about the fact AOL Journals is shutting down. In an effort to help those who need it, I’ve put together a guide on how to backup all your AOL journals content (blog entries, images, etc.) locally to your computer for later access. Read the rest of this entry »

Another day of product sunsets in the world of AOL — AOL will be shutting down AOL Journals (personal blogs) and AOL Hometown (personal web pages) effective October 31, 2008. In an announcement via Official AOL Mail, AOL gave users about 30 days to back up their personal life before they flush it all down the Internet tubes. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, there has a been an interesting (yet unsurprising) conflict between the Associated Press and the blogosphere regarding copyright, fair use, and editorial use of AP content. I summarize my view as simply: AP = Fail. Read the rest of this entry »