Posts Tagged as ‘blogging’

October 1, 2009

Mad Men according to Sesame Street

AMC’s Mad Men is officially cultural phenomenon.
Not because it won a ton of awards. Not because every blogger and Twitterer writes about them. Not even because Banana Republic launched a line of clothes inspired by the show.
Mad Men has rocketed in the uber phenomenon status because cute little muppets are now teaching kids about emotions [...]

May 11, 2009

Why Tweets aren’t enough

I’ll admit I’ve been sucked into the Twitter world. So much so, that I have to limit my time on it to once every few hours. Hey, some people get coffee breaks or cigarette breaks… I get Twitter breaks.
I started using TweetDeck, which is an application that allows you to organize, search and mark tweets [...]

April 7, 2009

Advertising and blogging – finally there are rules!

When I was in college I was offered a job blogging. Cool. Right?
I thought so too until I found out that the company wanted me to blog about their clients products and how fabulous they are. And while I’m all for evangelizing the stuff I like, I think it’s crooked when people get paid to [...]

March 25, 2009

Happy first birthday, blog!

I can hardly belive that it’s been a year since I started my experiment in blogging.
My boyfriend was the kind of kid who would take a part things just to see how they worked. I never understood those people… until it came time for me to understand the Internet. It started when I was about [...]

December 22, 2008

All the cool kids are doing it

When I first started blogging… it was mostly for giggles. I wasn’t really sure that it was useful or even that much fun. Then I started to see the hits to my site. People from all over the world started commenting on my posts. And I realized that some people are interested in seeing things from my point of view (crazy, I know!).

As the end of the 4th quarter approaches – a year after “official recession-dom” – everyone is talking about blogs. How they’re free… search-engine friendly… and extremely effective for creating two-way communication.

And a lot of companies are now scrambling to start something up. People that are effective bloggers are in high demand. Don’t believe me? Read Douglas Karr’s latest post on Talent Zoo: Your Company is Going Under, and You Could Have Stopped It.