Last month I presented to a group of entrepreneurs at the Virginia Department of Business Assistance. My talk was on social media marketing. For those interested, the April 2011 VDBA Bulletin includes a brief video that discusses my presentation on social networking and marketing; it is now on YouTube here as well. The event was...
I became self-employed by choice. But, before I quit my day job I spent a considerable amount of time talking to successful entrepreneurs. Why recreate the wheel I thought? I met with SCORE counselors, business owners, and successful entrepreneurs. And,
Business Marketing and Facebook Pages Earlier this month, Facebook significantly enhanced the “Pages” functionality for business marketing. If your business doesn’t yet have a Facebook business page, I highly recommend creating one. Social networking is by far one of the web’s top activities as predicted. And, according to comscore.com, Social networking continued to gain momentum...
I enjoy great works of art. And, thanks to Google’s new Art Project I can visit museums around the world right from my office computer. This is definitely an excellent use of technology as well as somewhat amazing. Watch behind the scenes footage of the Street View and high resolution captures from the Art Project....
WordPress has evolved into an extremely powerful and flexible content management system (CMS) in addition to the world’s most used and respected blogging software. An enormous community supports and continues to build functionality as well as detect vulnerabilities. And, this week a critical core vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress core. CRITICAL WORDPRESS UPDATE ANNOUNCED...
While scanning one of my social networks, I noticed that a business friend recently published a few articles on EzineArticles.com. It caught my eye because when I started blogging back in 2005 I used EzineArticles as an article marketing tool as well. For those un-familiar with EzineArticles, it is one of the early adapters of...