Actually, as you can see from the time stamp, it’s not quite Thursday when this blog was posted. Yet according to quite a few blog posts themselves, this is the prime time to post your blog when it comes to catching the attention of visitors. Is this really the case, though? I’m not too sure. Although I can see the logic behind this reasoning (and the charts highlighting traffic spikes for the time of day and actual weekday make a…

Like any of the best innovations in life, social media doesn’t stand still. Constantly evolving, always re-inventing itself to meet new challenges and overcome new detractors. If you’re not careful, you can miss a lot of what’s going on. Like making new friends and acknowledging the fact, for example. I’m guilty of that, I’m sorry to say – although in my defense, it’s not because I’m deliberately being a selfish jerk! Anyone that knows me would say I’m a reasonably…

This is a cross-posting from the 12for12k blog. Throughout December, the 12for12k focus is on the homeless and how you can help in your own towns and cities. There’s no donation widget this month – we’re offering a more hands-on challenge. By all means, if you wish to donate cash as well as the time and items we’ll be suggesting, that’d be great as well. So, with that said, let’s get into our streets this month and really help those…

A couple of weeks back I ran a “mini contest”, if you like, to celebrate this blog’s first full year. The gist was as follows – up for grabs was the Headway premium WordPress theme (used on this very blog) as well as a copy of Trust Agents and Six Pixels of Separation. All you needed to do to “win” was tell me why you wanted Headway. Well, the votes are in – as in, I’ve made my mind up…

So there are a few new changes/tweaks/additions (delete where applicable) coming to this blog soon, and I’d love your help to decide on how it pans out. After all, you guys are the real stars around here – I just offer somewhere to hang. The first change I’m thinking about is the design. I’m tempted to go for either a fairly minimalistic look – think something akin to Posterous – or a more magazine feel like this one. I’ll still…

So as I mentioned in my previous post, it’s been pretty quiet around here this week as I’ve eased in to a new project. So quiet, in fact, that I never realized that this blog’s one-year anniversary had come and gone on September 30. To be honest, it doesn’t feel like a year. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but it seems only yesterday I decided to go full-on self-hosted blogging as opposed to the Blogger and…

If you’ve been hanging around me the last couple of days (and thanks for the company!), you’ll know that there’s been a little back and forth activity about a blog post regarding 12for12k. The details and response can be found here. An apology has since been issued, so I’m not going to dwell on the subject too long. Instead, I wanted to share this with everyone who’s been around – you know who you are. You’re the living proof that…

If you’re a blogger, you’ll know how comments make a blog. They can take the original post into a whole new level altogether, with opposing views and discussions opening up some great viewpoints. Personally, I’ve used the comments on some of my posts (and those on other blogs) as inspiration for new posts here. I’ll add my comment on the original post, and then expand on it with a new or slightly different take. That then opens the discussion up…

Across the U.S., there’s a little mini-revolution happening that might just help change the way you look at business – cow-pooling. Based around the same idea of car-pooling (where you share travel and commute duties to save money and help the environment), cow-pooling sees you partnering with other families and buying your beef products direct from the farmer. But instead of a normal purchase – burgers, steak, etc – you can buy a whole cow. And that’s where the magic…

Community is a big thing for me. I talk about it a lot. I show my clients the value of community and social equity. My 12for12k project is all about bringing the global community together for one overreaching goal. Heck, my blog tagline is “Community; Connection; Conversation”. So, yes, community is a big thing for me. Why? Why do I concentrate on community, as opposed to other “magical” words like ROI, returns, end percentages, profit margins and endless other affiliations…