BusinessWeek asks if Twitter is the Next Monster.com, which is an interesting question because at PubCon South, Top Rank Marketing’s Lee Odden referenced a company that bought ads with Monster (and other places like it) but got better results from Twitter.
Thoughts On A YouTube Generation
A little over ten years ago, my father retired from 30 years of teaching middle school world history and geography, and my mother kicked herself upstairs to the countywide administrative level after 25 years of teaching law and justice and geography. (Yeah, I know my social studies, right?) Before their departures from the classroom, though they have agreed on little else since I’ve known them, they agreed on this: Kids are different these days.
Healthy Thoughts From Google
Health care information should be readily available from the health care system, with an emphasis on relevance and personalization. Preferably without too much government involvement.
Vendor Thoughts On Cisco & Web Conferencing
When Cisco made its announcement about purchasing WebEx on March 15, competing web conferencing software vendor iLinc rushed out a press release the following day, talking about the news from their perspective. This got me wondering what other vendors might have to say about theshakeup in the market. I decided to contact several of them in different niches of the industry and see what they felt like sharing.
Thoughts on WordPress Official Plugins Directory
When I first read last week that Wordpress had launched an official plugins directory I was excited. There are lots of good plugins out there that are not in any sort of searchable database other than a search engine. However, the Wordpress plugin directory isn’t living up to my excitations yet.
Thoughts From An Introverted Entrepreneur
For those of you that have not heard yet, yesterday (February 24th) was the big kick-off for Entrepreneurship Week USA.
I had not really heard about this event before, but it has been brought up on a number of blogs that I read, so I thought I’d go check it out. As a passionate, but introverted advocate of entrepreneurship, I thought I’d look into the event and what it means.
Thoughts on ITIL
Interesting, skeptical take on ITIL, by a person (Noel Bruton) with some apparent long term presence in the industry.
Blogging: Random Thoughts & Predictions
Citizen journalism, word of mouth marketing, not to mention good old-fashioned seditious libel, mark some of the more prominent aspects of this generative beast we call the blogosphere.
Thoughts on Bid Management Tools
J. wrote me to ask what I think of bid management software, as the large agency he now works for in a search marketing capacity has asked him for his views on it.
My First Thoughts On Firefox 2.0
Firefox 2.0 is here.