I updated the design on my Web site yesterday. (Yeah, I really know how to kick back on the weekends.) Take a look at it, if you dare. When you…
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Yellow Page industry sets up “Do not deliver” site
I have been pretty harsh on the Yellow Pages in the past. Most of my trouble comes from the fact that the medium just isn’t as effective across all verticals…
Read MoreHow is Google feeling about sentiment analysis?
If you don’t know what sentiment analysis is, it might be time to learn. Even if you don’t care about its more popular uses, search marketers need to get acquainted…
Read MoreDick Axelrod of Terms of Engagement
Not long ago, I reviewed the latest edition of Terms of Engagement, the great book on organizational change by Dick Axelrod that helps you engage the people you need to…
Read MoreGoogle loses adult supervision
Probably the biggest industry story this past month was the announcement that Eric Schmidt is being kicked upstairs at Google, with Larry Page taking the wheel. The triumvirate (along with…
Read MoreAre colleges waking up to social media?
My daughter has reached the end of her college selection process. She’s our first student headed off to college, so it was a learning process for all of us. She…
Read MoreThe internet industry races forward and leaves opportunity in the dust
There was a Simon and Garfunkel song called “Feeling Groovy” whose lyrics run, “Slow down, you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last, just kickin’ down the…
Read MorePaid search expert Andrew Goodman
Andrew Goodman is a writer, paid search expert, and SearchManager Advisor to American Express OPEN, the credit card AMEX markets to small businesses. Andrew is the long-time editor of the…
Read MoreThe Internet killed the “one-day story”
Yesterday, I wrote about how NBC has handled Keith Olbermann’s departure from his show on MSNBC. Writing that story put me in mind of one of the hoary chestnuts of…
Read MoreLearning from Comcast/NBC and Keith Olbermann
After the recent and sudden departure of Keith Olbermann as the host of MSNBC’s daily Countdown, criticism of parent network NBC (as well as Comcast, who recently acquired NBC) has…
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