First I want to touch on why social networking sucks for growing a business, well actually SOME businesses. Let’s think about it, what do we call it? Social networking. Not business networking, but social.  Social networking can work for your business if you are selling something that people need once a year, or even every [...]

Ok, I have been spending some time, late into the evenings and on the weekends mucking around with my blog. There are so many things I want to do with it, and one of the things is to improve the look and feel. I have changed up the graphics a bit, cleaned up some of [...]

It’s speaks for itself, really…

I believe strongly in good solid networking.  Whether it be face to face, over the Internet, or some other method.  Networking is vital not only for the portion of your professional life, but for your personal life as well.  Fostering those connections is work.  I get highly disappointed when someone who has asked to be [...]

Recently I have noticed that if I leave my computer on, or my wife leaves her computer on and we have a browser up with a social networking site running (read: facebook), after a wile, likely overnight, our browsers and sometimes the computer itself will windup doing a faceplant…  needing to be rebooted. It seems [...]

The Internet is amazing, computers have gotten so cheap, and have so many different features, one of which is that you can publish your own news cast, rant or what not on YouTube or any similar service. And people are doing it more and more.  I bet you’re sitting there thinking “Hey, I want to be [...]

Well it seems that some businesses, at least one that I recently heard of, are putting in place very stringent rules about what people who work for or with them can/should share with others on social web sites. Even who you should or should not make connections with!  It was bound to happen.  But is it right?  [...]

I was writing an email to a friend earlier who asked me where they could find services that provide free personal web sites. He’s researching for a book he’s writing. Well if you’ve been on the internet long enough you would remember one of the best services out there was GeoCities. It’s still around, it’s just [...]