Monthly Archives: January 2008
Differentiating Your Social Networking Website (Part 1)
In what’s becoming a crowded space (though don’t get me wrong, there is still much seating and standing room), social networking websites in mass have “officially” arrived. Sure, the industry powerhouses have been around for some time now, but over the last couple of years it’s feeling like “Star Wars — Attack of the Clones” with all of the social networking websites cropping up around this niche and that specialty and those demographics. It’s similar to the domain name explosion or the rise of e-commerce; more often than not if …
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Don’t just vote for a handsome (or pretty) face…
Excellent tools (this may change the way we vote forever!): www.glassbooth.org www.votehelp.org
[EssentiaList] The Meme Edition
“A meme constitutes a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of culture or cultural evolution which spreads through diffusion propagating from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution.” Evolution of Technology “Like genes, memes are in competition with each other. While genes compete for representation in the genepool, memes compete for representation in the memepool — the huge collection of ideas that are currently circulating the world. …
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Martin Luther King, Jr. – The Dream Lives On…
“…And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring – when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children – black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics – will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” Those were the closing words …
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Get Real
It’s the easiest yet hardest way to have success in business. It’s called “authenticity.” In an age of spam, advertising inundation, and fast food, our senses are being vied for seemingly every minute of everyday. In order to get through the junk, businesses oftentimes resort to the quick and easy way of dealing with the problem by simply making it bigger with more clutter and more junk! Instead of the hard approach of doing something remarkable, most do something adequate and simply make it appear to be remarkable. The bad …
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Here’s to the Underdog
If you’re a small business, the odds are stacked high against you. Your competition is bigger, better funded and has an established brand image. They also don’t have to worry about raising funds or attracting new talent. You on the other hand, have no brand image, are constantly plagued with cash flow problems, and might even have faced the possibility of not receiving a salary next month. Other times, sheer luck is the only way you’re able to open shop on Monday. More icing on the cake: you’re never really …
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Planning to Plan Your Website?
Then check out this great read on planning and documenting your web design/web development project the right way (and here you go all you Kindle readers)! “Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of …
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B-L-O-G in 2008: 6 Blogging Must-Reads & 2 Blogging Must-Views
It’s 2008 and by now the majority of people know what a blog is and many people have even adopted “really simple syndication” or “RSS” as a valuable tool whereas just a few years ago, these terms were relatively unknown by most (now, a Google search for “blogging” returns 55.6+ million results). With the rise in popularity and the spread of blogging, more people and businesses are using blogs to communicate and accomplish Internet objectives than ever before. As a result, the clutter is building and the number of “junk …
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