Archive for June, 2006
Friday Non-Blog Design Series II
It’s Friday again - time for more blog designs that don’t look all "bloggy".
The Big NoobA great design for a group blog. The design puts some great focus on both the entries and the blog authors. Most group blogs have a hard time highlighting their authors effectively. Dangergraphics.comIt’s hard to even tell this is a [...]
No content? Add context!
If you’re business blogging and get stuck on what to post, don’t fall into the trap of repurposing your whitepapers or press releases. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you shouldn’t post those things, in fact quite the opposite.
Press releases showcase what you’re doing. Whitepapers showcase how you’re doing it. That’s good stuff!
But [...]
Looking Stupid
Companies often look foolish to their consumers, that’s one of those business constants you can’t get away from. No matter how great your company is, they’re going to look foolish over some issue sooner or later. Most of the time, it seems like the biggest task is to try to stop looking foolish.
So why would [...]
Great Quote #456
A few more of these "great quote" posts and I’m going to have to setup a new category just for them!
Slightly altered from the version I heard from the always intellegent Andy Sernovitz:
"Marketing is easy! Earn the respect and admiration of your customers and they will market for you"
Another bad idea
Yet another money making scheme… Blogsitter.net.
Are you a blogger? Do you face some no-internet-days, holidays or something else that keeps you from updating your precious blog? And you know that a blog without daily updates dies very fast?Don’t worry any longer! blogsitter.net is the plattform for bloggers who need caring people to sit their blogs. [...]
Deleting Blog Comments
Recently I posted a comment on a blog that was politely taking the blogger to task. See, I had read his subject line incorrectly thinking he was overreacting to the topic at hand. This blog was his personal blog, but the content was related to his work. He clearly identified himself as being an employee [...]
World of Warcraft here I come…
Since nearly all of my friends are now playing World of Warcraft, I figured it was time to actually install my copy. I’m very interested to see how it goes, since I’ve heard such great things about the game play. But the social media/social design dork that I am, the thinking I’m most interested in [...]
Perhaps the worst idea yet
This has to be the worst idea I’ve ever heard…
Spot RunnerWe make it easy to get your business on TV
It used to be difficult - and expensive - to advertise on television. Only big companies could afford to do it because it involved hiring an ad agency to make the actual ads, and a [...]
Friday Non-Blog Design Series
I’m finding lately that using a blog for some of all of a client’s web site has been a solid solution for their business need. In those discussions with clients they’re a bit worried that their blog would have to look dull and drab, with a standard three column layout and devoid of a tasty [...]
