Entries tagged with “rss”

Lee Lefever and the good people over at Common Craft recently (like, yesterday) launched their latest video, Podcasting In Plain English. These videos are great on so many levels. If someone bolts into your office and asks, "what's RSS?", "what's...

There was some very positive feedback from the two-hour session I ran today at the Shop.org Online Marketing Workshop in Scottsdale, Arizona. The session was called, Web 2.0 University (which I quickly renamed Web 2.0 YOUniversity). Here's the session description:...

Say goodbye to browsers. Say goodbye to your "my favourites" folder. Say goodbye to online destinations. How is it that Yahoo! Pipes did not take off the way we would have thought? Are millions of people really downloading widgets and...

If we're all trying to get more people to read Blogs and listen to Podcasts, but our core audience is fellow Bloggers and Podcasters, how do we ever get this content out to the mainstream and bust the echo chamber...

As part of my commitment to IAB Canada - Interactive Advertising Bureau (full disclosure: I sit on the Board of Directors), I will be teaching my full-day seminar on Social Media Marketing on the following dates across Canada again this...

As Valentine's Day comes to a close, it felt like the right time to focus on passion. With all of these channels to be connected to - from Blogs to twitter - I'm constantly amazed by what people are passionate...

By the looks of this news item from eMarketer: Heard The Latest About Podcasting? it seems like Consumer adoption to audio Podcasts is definitely on the rise. The news is based on the recently issued eMarketer report, Podcast Audience: Seeking...

According to Wikipedia, "A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of the shill is,...

Marketers can learn a lot from those who do not consider themselves Marketers. In a RSS world where you can choose what sits in your Google Reader or Bloglines feed, it's important to "get out there" and check out different...

The Fluid Web is becoming a reality and we simply don't have the Digital Marketing metrics in place to measure it and define success. I first heard about the Fluid Web from Avinash Kaushik - Analytics Evangelist at Google -...

I've been watching the traffic to this Six Pixels of Separation Blog and Podcast. It's not that things have slowed down. Quite the contrary. There seems to be more action in the comments section then ever before and, by the...

I know the title of this Blog posting is enough to make Hugh McGuire from LibriVox throw up. In fact, I'm not sure how we got on the topic, but we did discuss how to monetize a Podcast over lunch...

I read with fascination an article from BusinessWeek called, Who Wants To Be A Facebook Millionaire? It's not the first time I've heard about a couple of people getting together, creating an widget for Facebook and reeling in the big...

Warning: self-promotional Blog posting ahead... Along with IAB Canada - Interactive Advertising Bureau, I created a full-day seminar on Social Media Marketing. I already started the second leg of this cross-Canada seminar, and there are a few more dates coming...