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Business Blogging
Business Blogging: Be a Local Vocal Yokel. »
Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | 2 Comments
You’d think that without cable TV and an over-the-air antenna that only manages to pick up a desperately fuzzy local Fox station but a decent HD ABC, our household had an ideological position against lowest common denominator television.
Far from it – we just get the lowest common denominator TV that we want, when we want it.
With PlayOn we have streaming Hulu to our TV via Xbox and with a UK VPN service we can get live UK TV plus as much catch-up as you’d want via any computer and streamed through our Xbox extender.
The only live American TV that ever gets an airing is that there American Idol.
It’s the wife, honest. 
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TAGS: Business Blogging, business blogs, Local Search
SES New York: Speaking at Blogging for Business Session (Take 2) »
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | 3 Comments
I never got round to filling you in as to what went down at SES Chicago, did I?
Not that you remember nor care I suppose.
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TAGS: blogging, internet marketing speakers, jennifer evans laycock, lee odden, michael gray, search marketing speakers, ses chicago 2008, ses new york 2009, ses ny
I’m Off to Speak at SES Chicago - Extra Bluster in Windy City »
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | 1 Comment
By hook or by crook I’ve always managed to avoid public speaking engagements. Whether it’s a case of getting lost in London during rush hour, or just being on the wrong side of the pond at any particular invite, my air of international blogger of mystery has remained fairly intact.
You see, I never thought that writing a business blog about a small sheet metal shop in the backend of nowhere would cause such a fuss. I neither expected nor particularly wanted to appear in newspapers or have to explain The Tinbasher as a business blogging case study to an all-knowing throng at SES Chicago on December 10th. But, such is the indirect effect of blogging.
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TAGS: blogging, ses chicago, tinbasher
Blogs become more main stream, but not Mainstream »
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | 1 Comment
One of the great things about blogs is that there appears to be as many different interpretations and definitions as to what they are as there are bloggers producing them. We could all sit down and throw out a few ideas as to what a blog contains or standards it must adhere to in order for it to be perceived as a fully-fledged blog. Once you’ve laid out that set of boxes that need to be ticked, you then develop a sliding scale of ‘blogginess’. If you have comments enabled, recent posts, a blogroll of links and an RSS feed you might be 58% bloggy by some people’s reckoning.
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TAGS: blogs, msm, technorati
Blogs are Crap - More Fallout from the WVU eMBA Scandal »
Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Justin Seibert in Business Blogging, DOM News, Government Marketing, Internet, Local News, Local Search, Search Engine Reputation Management, Web Credibility | 5 Comments
Rarely do I literally stop everything I’m doing to read an article. Or post a comment. Or write a blog. I hit the trifecta today.
Just when I thought I had said all I could say about the WVU eMBA scandal from an online reputation management perspective, I was sent a link to this article:
Interim WVU president has big goals — but don’t count on him blogging
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TAGS: banging head on desk, blogs vs. main stream media, charleston daily mail, Heather Bresch, Mike Garrison, naked supermodels, next generation marketing, online reputation management, peter magrath, sabremetrics, twitter, unicorns, WVU emba degree, wvu president, wvu scandal
I Wandered Lonely as a (Tag) Cloud »
Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | Leave A Comment
[Tag: Cloud]
If you go and take a look at the new archives page I’ve thrown up, you’ll notice (in descending order) a search form, monthly archives, archives by category with their own RSS feed, a latest posts section, and a TAG CLOUD. This just allows you to scavenge through our past piffle in a manner you may find suitable.
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TAGS: blogging, tag cloud, tagging
If I Sold Cell Phones…On Dropping your Blackberry in the Toilet »
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Justin Seibert in Business Blogging, SEO, Social Media | 5 Comments
I often make analogies to flushing things down the toilet. Often times those analogies are about money, so that’s how I know I’ve gotten old. That and when younger employees like Derrick call me old. 
Well, I went and darn near did flush something down the toilet this week. You see, I read in my Blackberry manual this week that it’s best to wash regularly for optimal performance, so I threw it in the toilet while giving my kids a bath. Then I went back and re-read the manual. Turns out it actually said, “never submerge me, you goofball”. You can see why I got confused though.
My cell phone is now dead and I am going through withdrawals worse than when they stopped showing Charles in Charge reruns.
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TAGS: blackberry addiction, forums, Lincoln memorial, long-tail keywords, made for adsense, ut fans, Washington DC
You Don’t Get This at Starbucks »
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | Leave A Comment
A man walks into a coffee shop and asks for a cappa-frappa-lappa-dappa-ding-dong over ice and is told in no uncertain terms that he’s not welcome with his anathema to coffee taste.
He gets something approaching an iced coffee, leaves a swear word on a dollar bill as a tip then goes home to rant on his blog about his nondescript event claiming he’d only return to the place with a can of kerosene and some matches to torch the place.
Perhaps he didn’t account for the fact that the owner of the coffee shop also had a blog, but Mr. Owner decided to reply to the customer’s complaints in full on his blog culminating in a threat to punch the fella in his crown jewels.
The next thing you know it’s all over the Web and a WaPO reporter is interviewing everybody concerned.
You can get the overall picture/primer here, then read the two offenders’ take on proceedings here and here.
I just suggest you read it if you have the time, but be warned there are some naughty words floating around - after all, coffee can be a very emotive subject.
If you must know, I’m on the side of the coffee shop owner. I believe businesses should be able to set out their vision for a better world in whatever it is they may do.
Although there was no need for everybody concerned to be so ridiculous about it.
TAGS: coffee blogs, murky coffee
Which Twittering Twit… »
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging, Social Media | 3 Comments
…after being explained the intricacies of Twitter said, of a tweet’s 140 character posting limit, “Is that per month?”
a) My lovely wife, Stephanie.
b) Ms. Riley, the world’s oldest blogger, who died this weekend at the age of 108.
c) An old chum I met on facebook recently who asked what Google was when replying to what I said I did for a living.
d) Me.
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TAGS: oldest blogger, olive riley, twitter
Federal Government Blogs & the Myth of Control »
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Justin Seibert in Business Blogging, Government Marketing, Political Marketing, Search Engine Reputation Management | 5 Comments
Blog discussions with marketing friends of mine like Skip Lineberg often end up with us trading war stories about potential clients. They’re intrigued with blogging, but don’t want to allow comments and “lose control.” There are many reasons not to start a blog (having a time constraint comes immediately to mind), but that fear is not one of them.
Friends, you’ve already lost control.
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TAGS: commenting policies, government blogs, join the conversation, myth of control, negative comments, online reputation management, TSA, two chances to make a first impression
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