Why Pittsburgh Is Not Silicon Valley
Paul Graham published this essay back in May. It’s called “How to Be Silicon Valley”. In it he talks about how smart people tend to go where other smart people are. It turns out he is also from here in Pittsburgh and he thinks we have the smart people to do the job, but because […]
Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
I recently found SEMPO. They seem to be a very good organization with the main goal of helping people with search engine marketing. SEMPO Mission: SEMPO is a global non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry and marketing professionals engaged in it. Their purpose is to provide a foundation for industry growth through building […]
The Art of Using E-mail
Using e-mail to communicate with long distance customers can be a challenge to say the least. I wrote a small article on the subject. The trick is to convey your message as well as to understand what your customer is trying to get across without clues from body language or voice inflections. I found it’s […]
JPG Magazine: A New Kind of Magazine
“We consider ourselves an open source magazine — participants have access to everything the editors have access to…. In traditional magazines, it’s all about hoarding until that last moment and then going ta-da – buy the magazine!” Issue 7 of JPG Magazine had 2,400 submissions come together to make this great looking photog mag. The […]
E-mail Virus Warnings
I still get an occasional e-mail from well meaning friends that tell me that the newest virus is on the loose. It is undetectable, not repairable, and if I open a certain attachment a hammer will pop out of my screen and smash my hard drive to bits. Unfortunately it’s just not that simple anymore. […]
E-mail Marketing Tips
Are you marketing with e-mail? Many people say that e-mail marketing id dead, killed off by SP*M. I still know many people who don’t know what a blog is. I still think that direct e-mail can be a valuable tool to help you promote yourself or your business as long as you do it right. […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Mapping the universe
Here?s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Astronomers at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space think space exploration should be easily accessible to anyone. To make that possible, they offer an interactive atlas of the universe that anyone can […]
Writing A Mini-Course
When I first started designing my site I wrote a section called “Start Your Own Website“. I thought it would be a good place to provide tips to people who wanted to learn how to design their website themselves. It could also be a section that would help people who had some knowledge, but wanted […]
Free E-Book For Writers
Scott Ginsberg, aka “The Nametag Guy,” has been wearing a nametag 24-7 to make people friendlier. (Has been since November 2, 2000.) Although this idea started out as sort of an experiment, he has somehow managed to leverage it into a full-blown career, consisting primarily of: 1) Writing books (5 real ones, 5 electronic ones) […]
