Awakened Voice

I recently had the privilege of attending the 2006 Critical Issues Forum which was organized by the Council of Public Relations Firms. This was a very high profile event that included discussion among some of the thought leaders in the public relations, marketing and advertising industries. The topic for discussion was Achieving Engagement in a [...]

As with any new industry there are many entrants who rush to be on the cutting edge of new markets and technology. I one heard that there were thousands of car companies in the U.S. in the early days of the automobile. Now we’re down to a handful of American car companies. Will this be [...]

I recently made the decision to unsubscribe from a number of RSS feeds that only included summaries of the content contained in the blog posts that were being distributed via the feeds.
The act of unsubscribing from these feeds was based on two factors. First, it is highly frustrating to browse my RSS reader of choice [...]

I don’t think I’ve written anything about pinging on this blog yet. So now that Google has added the ability for you to ping their blog search engine this is as good a time as any to write about it.
For those of you not in the know on pinging I’ll provide a basic explanation. Certain [...]

Moderating comments is a simple but powerful way to protect your social site from the evil ways of spammers.
When you moderate comments they are pushed into a queue for review prior to being made viewable on the website. This feature adds an extra step to your process as the proprietor of a social site because you [...]

Just read this article on the Wall Street Journal Online about companies paying for profiles on MySpace. The story goes like this.
Companies want to create a higher profile for a particular product or service, like a movie, but they can’t promote their goods via a MySpace profile without permission. If you’re willing to pay you [...]

I’ve been jumping headlong lately into the idea to develop a new community podcast directory. Dave Winer has graciously offered up a domain and there’s a Yahoo! Group where people are discussing the OPML driven effort effort.
A number of people in the podcasting community have come forward to endorse the effort which I believe is [...]

Earlier this evening I listened to an excellent conversation between Jon Udell of InfoWorld and Mike Hudack of the Blip.tv video blog service.
Blip.tv is one of the many services that allows people to host and distribute their videos for the very nice price of free. I tried them out in late 2005 only a few [...]

I’ve been a subscriber to Mark Cuban’s weblog, titled Blog Maverick, for a few months now. Mark writes about a wide variety of topics that mean something to him including NBA officiating, technology and culture.
Today he’s written a very insightful post on blogging vs. traditional media. It’s a very opinionated piece in Mark’s signature style [...]

WordPress.com has added a new feature that allows users to have unlimited blogs under a single login. This feature was not included in my recent comparison of WordPress.com vs. Blogger.
This feature certainly makes WordPress a bit more attractive to businesses who want to get more than one blog going and don’t want to deal with [...]