Danny Brown Called Me a Dilhole Or How to Find the Secret Sauce

Secret sauce

This is a guest post by Howie Goldfarb. But he also invited me to guest post for which I am flattered and honored. Not sure which I feel more honored and flattered about. Obviously Danny doesn’t care if you like him because he invited me to write this post! So, this is for you: Do… [Continue Reading]

The Social Media Pedestal

social media pedestals

This is a guest post by Bill Dorman. Okay, I was going to jokingly say Michelangelo must have had me in mind when he sculpted this; but then that might imply I’m old and my FedEx package could have been sent via regular mail instead of shipped. Now we wouldn’t want that as a persona, would… [Continue Reading]

A-Listers Behaving Badly

A-lister bullies

This is a guest post by Neicole Crepeau. Last week I inadvertently stepped into a hornet’s nest on my blog. I publicized some SEO practices that I had been unaware of, including the fact that they may be taking place on a major blogger’s site (unknown to him, I assumed). The response from that blogger… [Continue Reading]

Google+ Is the Social Network That’s All About Search

Google Plus

This is a guest post by Sean McGinnis. Did you hear that Google launched a social network called Google+? Of course you did! In the past, Google took a stab at social by purchasing Orkut. Later, they launched both Google Buzz and Google Wave with little success. Now comes Google+. Kinda seems like Google is… [Continue Reading]

The Ten Songs The Rolling Stones Wrote About Social Media

The Rolling Stones social media

This is a guest post by Marjorie Clayman. It’s been a weird year. Grand in many ways. Here’s an example. So, Mr. Brown here, he asked me to guest post on this site you’re looking at, and I thought, “Wow, what an honor!!” Shortly thereafter, I was playing on Google+ and I got invited to… [Continue Reading]

Social Media Gurus, Real Work and Diversity

Social media guru

This is a guest post by Olivier Blanchard. Earlier this year, Danny wrote a post about social media diversity, that received a fair bit of conversation both on his blog, and away from it. Maybe diversity has nothing to do with it, though. Maybe the answer is far simpler than that. From where I stand,… [Continue Reading]

Why the A-List Conversation Hurts Us

Geoff Livingston

This is a guest post by Geoff Livingston. The ongoing conversation about the ills of the A-List produces the opposite effect than desired. Instead of creating a correction, it builds a stratosphere of influence, and creates a perception of unworthiness for the rest of the social web. This demeans the value of everyone else —… [Continue Reading]

The Weird Thing I Want You To Do On My Blog

Greed

This is a guest post by Michael Schechter. I’m noticing a pattern lately:  the moment that a blogger starts to monetize his or her site can usually be tracked back to moment the content begins to suck. The minute that optimization becomes the priority, creation tends to quickly take a backseat. It’s not a perfect… [Continue Reading]

5 Ways To Stay Productive Amidst Social Media Buzz

Online buzz

This is a guest post by Leo Widrich. At the moment that I am writing this post the App I am working on is featured simultaneously on Social Media Examiner, ProBlogger and LaughingSquid, three massive Social Media sites that made the buzz go crazy. It is fantastic. Yet, as you are growing as a blogger,… [Continue Reading]

Why I’m Hesitant About Triberr

Triberr - The Reach Multiplier

This is a guest post by Neicole Crepeau. Triberr is taking the blogging world by storm. And my hat is off to its creators, Dino Dogan and Daniel Cristo for trying to help smaller bloggers like myself get exposure. I can definitely understand the appeal of Triberr, Twitterfeed, and other RSS auto-post systems. I find… [Continue Reading]