Rants

Three Reasons I am Leaving Network Solutions

August 5, 2009

1. They Can’t Answer My Questions I tried reaching out for help twice now and have been let down both times. Once on Twitter on July 20th and once to NetSol’s Tech Support phone line (Service Request # 1-410445817). Nobody responded on Twitter and the info I got from the tech support was wrong! Here [...]

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#followfriday You’re Doing It Wrong

March 20, 2009

How are these #followfriday tweets useful to anybody? I’m not trying to pick on anybody in particular, which is why I used examples from multiple users and left out their names. It’s just a good example of how NOT to add value to a communications network. The Failure of #followfriday In the past year I’ve [...]

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My Facebook “25 Things About Me” Post

February 16, 2009

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. (To do [...]

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My Top 5 Twitter Pet Peeves

February 5, 2009

Personally, I like Twitter. I think that in the right contexts it is an amazingly useful tool for building relationships and facilitating communication. But my skin starts to bristle when I hear self-proclaimed social media experts talking about using Twitter for marketing as if it were the Holy Grail or a complete revolution in the [...]

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How NOT to Learn SEO

May 21, 2008

It used to be that forums like WebmasterWorld.com and DigitalPoint.com were the “underground” of the SEO community. Those in the know shared tips, secrets, and hard-earned knowledge with other practitioners of the not-yet-commoditized “dark art”. For a newbie looking to break into the SEO industry, these sites were a gold mine of information and cutting-edge [...]

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