Mom taught us to mind our manners, so that other people would enjoy being around us. Business blogging, I’ve come to realize, has its own set of "manners". I don’t mean just what management mavens like to call "best practices", but simple courtesies you wish every blogger would make part of his or her routine. […]
Discovery Channel knows "it’s a tough job separating truth from urban legend", but that’s exactly the job they took on in Mythbusters , their science TV program. The show is popular in large part because of its unusual special effects, which it uses to disprove certain popular beliefs, Internet rumors, and other myths. Mythbusting is […]
In these Say It For You blog posts, I’ve often remarked on the disproportionately large impact blogs can have as part of a business’ marketing strategy. Blog Business World reviews a new book, The Age of the Unthinkable. In that book, author Joshua Cooper Ramo addresses that same idea in a much broader sense, showing […]
Search engine optimization guru Aaron Wall says that the goal of the search engine is to mimic humans. "So," he concludes, "if you write information that humans like, the search engines will eventually like it, too." To Wall this means that "regardless of what type of blog you write and whether it’s in a competitive […]
Remember the story of "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp"? I can’t think of a better example for demonstrating how web searches work. SEO expert William Flaiz says in Search Engine Watch, "People don’t go to websites any more; websites come to them." Chris Baggott of Compendium Blogware interprets that statement: "People aren’t concerned about remembering […]
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