I spent some time the other day training a client on how to create blog posts on their shiny new blog / web site that we recently launched for them. Training clients on this part of the process is something I really enjoy because they get so excited to see how the back end of…

Times are tough for many economically. People and companies are trying to stretch their budgets and do more with less – less people, less time, less money. Here are 5 tactics to to build your online brand if you have no blog site and no budget. Comment on other people’s blog posts. Who are the…

Why recreate the wheel? Gabrielle Conde of Copyblogger Media wrote an AMAZING post about marketing on Twitter. It includes everything from how to get started using Twitter, how to write noticeable tweets, a Twitter lexicon and much, much more. It’s an ideal article for the Twitter newbie or for one who has some experience. It…

One of the most famous “citizen journalists” in the world right now is, Sohaib Athar who inadvertently Tweeted Osama Bin Laden’s death as it was happening. Athar, who can be found @ReallyVirtual, realized at some point on Monday that there was a connection between the helicopter sounds he was Tweeting about and United States President…

I’m starting a new series featuring entrepreneurs who use the web to conduct business. These entrepreneurs are unique because they are not typical online entrepreneurs, they’re not bloggers, or online marketers and they’re not social media specialists. What makes them un usual is that they own offline businesses but they use the web to build…

We are living in a world where social media is all the rage, a world where we spend more and more time online, where we are using the web to connect with friends that we haven’t spoken to in years, a world where we are revealing more and more about ourselves, our family and our…