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Discover Your Personal Brand
Here is this week’s most oft-asked question:
“In social media, how do you separate your personal life from your professional life?”
photo credit: Kelly Hau Photography
The questioners explain that they thought LinkedIn was professional and FaceBook was personal — but now that people are using FaceBook for professional reasons — what is one to do? (And [...]
Two Easy Wordle Website Branding Exercises
I’ve been noodling with the delightful Wordle.net application for a few months now. Initially, I used Wordle to create word clouds that I use as art in PowerPoint presentations.
For example, I entered my opening remarks on a presentation about Social Media for Business, and Wordle generated a unique and relevant welcome slide image. The main [...]
Social Media Fun With Wordle
Entering your speech notes into Wordle can create a relevant Welcome slide for your next PowerPoint presentation.
I’m working on a presentation about Social Media, so I enter in my introductory notes. Here’s what Wordle delivered –
Fun Stuff! If you were greeted with this slide upon entering a meeting, would you have clue about what the [...]
No Dates For Your New Blog URLs
Glance up at the address bar. You’ll see a date in this blog’s lengthy URL.
If I had it to do all over again — I would not put dates in my blog URL. It’s too late for me now — too much work to go back and 301 re-direct 100’s of pages. But when I start [...]
Worst Album Covers Ever
The saddest part of our digital world has got to be the demise of the beloved album cover. Many album covers served as art — a joy to look at.
By contrast, CD covers are mostly small and sad. And now, with MP3 downloads, the art of the package seems to be gone forever. No more [...]
Manufacturers: Don’t Be Sneaky
This year, I talked to two successful business owners who manufacture terrific products.
For decades, each manufacturer has been successfully selling their products in bulk to wholesalers. The wholesalers, of course, sell the product to retailers. The retailers sell the product to the end customer. This traditional approach has been working well for each manufacturer for years.
Enter [...]
3 “Dudes” and I’m Out…
The fall TV season will soon be upon us. I have a rule. I call it:
“Three Dudes and I’m Out.”
Here’s how it works:
If I hear the word “dude” uttered by any of the main characters in the new show — and I hear it 3 times — I’m out. I turn off the program, never [...]
Reaching the coveted upper-income woman demographic…
If you are on the web marketing team for a large corporation…
…and your company makes a product that appeals to upper income, highly educated, 40+ women…
…how much sense does it make to have a web copy review committee comprised solely of 20-30 something middle income males? (And how much sense does it make to review the copy [...]
Meet the West Michigan 8…
Next Friday, I’m going to meet some of the greatest artists in the world. You can, too.
They’re going to be right here, in downtown Grand Rapids, at the Eyekons Gallery.
You can meet (most of) them personally and see their latest works.
So who are these dudes?
Almost every extension in the world…
What’s that file with the .ppa extension?
Why, it’s a Microsoft PowerPoint Add-In file, of course!
But how would you know that…along with any hundreds of other strange or mysterious file extensions that you might find on your computer?
Visit Almost every file format in the world to discover what the heck that vexing extension you found on [...]
