MY SON IS A BLOGGER
Is it bragging when you mention your children’s blogs? I dunno. But it can’t be that common… yet. My son just moved to Japan for a year to teach English. He has a blog. I think it’s great. Read his 23-year-old musings on Japanese culture at tokyotim.blogspot.com.
read moreASK YOUR SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT BLOGGING QUESTION
I’m working on a report about blogging as a business tool. And I don’t want to leave anything out! Please click through on the link below to ask your single most important question about blogging effectively. It’s quick and easy. You just type your question in to the form provided…
read moreBLOGGING CORRECTLY FOR POLITICS
I’m wondering… do political consultants and candidates need advice on how to launch and maintain a blog as part of a campaign strategy? Please use the comments link below to add your input on blogging for politics.
read moreMENTAL SPACE
When our power went out last Friday after Hurricane Isabel swept through Washington DC I was pleasantly surprised by the peace and quiet in my office… No electricity, no computer, no electronic files, no online access, no email, no spam. I could think and work without the constant clutter and…
read moreEAT MORE TO DROP POUNDS
That’s the headline on a recent issue of Living Fit. Does it make you want to find out more? (Sorry, I couldn’t find a Web site for this publication. You’re not missing much… ) I had coffee this morning with neighbor and business colleague Tom Graham. Tom maintains that…
read moreFORGET SPELL CHECK
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read moreRESOURCES FOR ONLINE COPYWRITING
If you’re looking for a one-stop guide with a ton of useful resources for online copywriters, visit Nick Usborne’s updated Resources page. It includes software for writing, project planning and Web page design, a list of books, research sites, useful e-newsletters to subscribe to and more.
read moreRIVETING FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT
I just ran across this 1st person account by Michael Wilson of descending the stairs in one of the Towers and surviving 9/11. Riveting. Real. Read it. Thanks to Halley Suitt for pointing it out.
read moreWHAT MY MOTHER SAYS ABOUT BLOGGING
My mother is one of the smartest people I know. She is not, however, a fan of the Web or the Internet. To my knowledge, she’s never read a single issue of my newsletter, WordBiz Report, for fear that her computer might get a virus should she open…
read moreDIGITAL CAPITAL
Kinda nice to get a mention in your hometown newspaper, particularly when it’s the Washington Post. WordBiz and this blog are on the front page of today’s Business section in the Digital Capital column by Ellen McCarthy. Ellen wrote up the “blogging for business” panel I participated in earlier this…
read moreAcutely American – Remembering 9/11
I live in Washington DC but happened to be in NYC two years ago today visiting my sister.
“Are you sure that building can withstand such an impact?” I queried the carpenter standing next to me. We were standing on the rooftop terrace of an apartment in Greenwich Village.
He…
read morePANEL: THE CASE FOR BUSINESS BLOGGING
I’m on a blogging panel tonight for Washington DC’s New Media Society. Moderating is Scott Knowles. My buddy Jeanne Jennings, a fellow ClickZ contributor and email marketing guru, is also a panelist. What’s the new new thing about Weblogs? Blogging for politics, of course. Food for…
read moreMY WEB SITE TALKS – DOES YOURS?
I just added the first audio testimonial to my site to promote a new e-book report I’m selling. Cool, huh?! If you can record your voicemail message, you can make your site or emails talk. Click here to sign up. $29.95 a month and you can cancel anytime.…
read moreI MET A REAL SPAMMER
We shared a six-seater helicopter tour of San Francisco. It was awesome. Anyway, my heli seatmate was a fellow attendee at The Big Seminar – a three-day event in San Francisco (Aug. 22 – 24) that’s the best direct response marketing conference I’ve ever attended. 
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THE COST OF EMAIL
A recent study by Osterman Research concluded that “a typical email user will spend about 1.7 weeks just managing their mailbox, or about 3% of their time at work.” Based on an annual salary of $60,000, that’s a productivity cost of $2,000 a year. Thanks to Sue Duris of…
read moreRSS EXPLAINED CLEARLY
Barbara Feldman has penned the best explanation of RSS I’ve run across. She’s an Internet entrepreneur who clearly never sleeps. She runs SurfNetKids and publishes a weekly newsletter as well as several blogs. She’s now offering her e-newsletter as an RSS feed. What does this mean? You…
read moreNO MORE ABOUT MY DOG…
I have no idea what possessed me to write about my dog last week. I guess I liked the headline, “My dog barfed.” A colleague just emailed to ask whether I had lost my mind. Particularly after permission marketing guru Seth Godin noted that I don’t blog about…
read moreMy Dog Barfed
Think this kind of thing is purely the stuff of a Woody Allen comedy? Nope. When I got up this morning at 5:55 AM (early for me), my aging Labrador came upstairs to greet me… and to barf at my feet. It…
Seth Won’t Blog Me
Seth changed his mind. He mentioned me (briefly) in his blog.
On the evolving topic of “Can you pitch a blog?” with an article or clever idea… I was emailing back and forth today with Seth Godin (he’s a WordBiz Report subscriber). He wrote to say,…
read moreEVERYMAN AS REPORTER & MICROPUBLISHER
Per usual, I’m getting snippets of news I can use from up2speed. A recent post talks about RedPaper, a new marketplace for citizen reporters to sell their words for as little as two cents. I dunno. I can’t shake my background as a real reporter & editor.…
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