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New Year’s Resolutions – 2011

January 11, 2011

It’s a new year and time for new resolutions. In an attempt to be held accountable this year, I’m going public with my resolutions. My 2011 resolutions: Blogging 1. Reach out to more bloggers. 2. Update my blog theme. 3. Investigate moving my blog to WordPress.org. 4. Write posts in advance. Career 1. Attend at […]

The future of news in an online world

November 23, 2010

Are newspapers dead? I think that the delivery of news has changed and that newspapers are no longer the preferred medium for most people. The final FutureM Conference session that I attended was on “The Future of News: Payments, Platforms and Places.” Here are the thoughts of these news experts. The panelists: Bianca Bosker – […]

How to build a better website

November 3, 2010

Another great FutureM Conference session was “A Webiste Makeover Event: The Future Face of Digital Business.” As a person who helps companies build better websites, I was particularly interested in this event. The speakers: Richard Banfield – CEO of Fresh Tilled Soil, which designs web interfaces for entrepreneurs. Chris Merrill – CEO of Super Web-o-Matic, […]

Use new rules of customer engagement to your advantage

October 26, 2010

What does marketing success mean? Getting customers, engaging customers and keeping customers. A FutureM Conference session, “Harnessing New Methods of Customer Engagement,” addressed this. The panelists were some heavy hitters from successful companies, so it was great to hear their perspectives. The panelists: John Meyer – CEO of Axciom. Axciom is a global interactive marketing […]

What is the future of marketing?

October 20, 2010

No one can predict the future, but one can study current trends and extrapolate future trends. At a recent FutureM conference session on “The Future of Digital Strategy,” several marketing experts shared their views on the future of marketing. This panel was especially interesting because the companies were not your typical online marketing companies, they […]

How blogging saved my career

September 20, 2010

Every once in a while you do something that has an unexpected, yet huge impact on your life. As I look to switch my career focus to marketing and writing, blogging has helped me in so many ways. Here’s how blogging has saved my career: 1. Brought back discipline. When you are out of […]

How hiking has improved my online marketing skills

September 15, 2010

It is only fitting that my inspiration for this post came to me as I was nearing the summit of Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire. The weather was classic New England early fall with a brilliant blue sky and sun shining brightly on the yellow birch leaves. Hiking has touched my life in so […]

Writing adventures at Amazon.com

August 31, 2010

I love to read, to write and to expand my online presence. So writing book reviews for Amazon is a natural for me. I’ll admit it, I used to just read mysteries. They’re great escape, but they don’t exactly make you think. I chose to expand my repertoire with biographies, business books and technology books. […]

I just don’t get this Twitter thing

August 25, 2010

Tweet, tweet. Twitter terms are cute, but so what? I’ve read a lot about how to use Twitter effectively, but I still don’t get it. I just don’t care for hourly updates, even from experts. I mean, no one can be THAT interesting all the time. I try to practice good Twitter etiquette. If someone […]

Why everyone needs Social Media

July 28, 2010

You can’t escape it, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are everywhere. Think you can ignore it all? Think again. Here are 5 Reasons why you need Social Media: 1. Define your online presence. The first thing anyone will do before meeting you is to Google you. You want to have some control over what they see. […]