Search Engine Friendly Isn’t Search Engine Optimized

When we are quoting development work for prospective clients we are often asked to develop a website that is search engine optimized. This usually brings me into a long-winded explanation on how developing a website to be search engine friendly is not the same thing as optimizing that website for search performance. Kind of like how building a car is not the same as making…

Why Microsoft Pays Waggener Edstrom the Big Money

The Long Tail: The Microsoft Memo: Some choose radical transparency, some have it thrust upon them Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief over at Wired, has a post out today that contains a massive email briefing by Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom to a Microsoft executive about an interview with Wired Magazine.

Why Microsoft Pays Waggener Edstrom the Big Money

The Long Tail: The Microsoft Memo: Some choose radical transparency, some have it thrust upon them Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief over at Wired, has a post out today that contains a massive email briefing by Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom to a Microsoft executive about an interview with Wired Magazine.

Focusing on What is Important

Recently I was asked to be interviewed for a new blog that is being created. So what, right? I am not tooting my own horn, but many of the questions were very thought out. I would like to share one of them: