(Editor’s Note: The pictures above are from the Japanese Garden in Van Nuys, Ca.) “Every one of us is dying, some of us are doing so faster than others, but it doesn’t matter because we are all dying.” I can’t tell you the name of this philosopher but I can tell you he was a… Continue reading Who Is Going To Write Your Obituary?
Month: April 2014
The Hidden Problems In Your Marketing Materials
It is generally considered bad form to suggest you want to stick a rusty screwdriver in the eyeballs of whatever marketing hack wrote the easy to understand instructions for using product/service XYZ, so I’ll pretend I didn’t say it. Scratch that, I am not pretending. I wrote it and I’ll own it but I’ll cover… Continue reading The Hidden Problems In Your Marketing Materials
How Bloggers Defeat Death
Take a quick tour of the blogosphere and you’ll be bombarded with the fruits of the echo chamber, a million posts about content shock, another million on how to monetize your blog and 19,837,983 on how to become a better content marketer. And then you’ll find the people like me who wonder if any of… Continue reading How Bloggers Defeat Death
Will Livefyre Sidenotes Save Blog Commenting?
There is an ongoing discussion within and around the blogosphere about whether blog comments are dying and or dead. I haven’t touched upon it much but those of you who hang out ’round these parts know I believe comments are a critical part of blogging. Comments build community and help create blog fodder for future… Continue reading Will Livefyre Sidenotes Save Blog Commenting?