Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

There’s been a bit of an spammy trend lately in the blogosphere, the rise of user hostile plugins. What I mean by user hostile: plugins that offer little benefit for visitors and break anticipated user experience to (try and) selfishly benefit a site.

Serious online publishers use Wordpress. It’s the easiest to use, most flexible, customizable and scalable self-publishing platform.

Mark Schaefer recently shared a list of his opinion of the 10 best corporate blogs in the world. I Tweeted to Mark that they’re not bad, but still lightyears behind the best independent and personal blogs. Mark responded to me and asked me to flesh out that comment a bit more. So here we go.

In 2009 I wrote about why video blogging hasn’t taken off (at least, not at the scale of text-based blogging). The essence of the thread wasn’t to bash video. Just the opposite, video is an exciting and dynamic medium:  if a picture says 1,000 words a video says 10,000. The thread simply shared some of the inherent limitations of video, such as:

As it’s nearly the end of the year, I thought I’d share a round-up of what you, the readers here, found most interesting. To give a little context: all posts on this blog were viewed in total more than 1,000,000 times this year. Following are the 10 most popular that were actually published in 2010.

Seven months ago I decided to start a country music blog. For most of my life I’ve enjoyed country music. It’s not that I set out to be a country fan, I actually like all kinds of music. I basically follow the line of thinking from Willie Nelson when he says there are only two kinds of music – good and bad.  Today I wanted to share my story with you about ramping up the blog from scratch.