How To Make Conferences Great

Following is also my latest MediaPost Spin column

How To Make Conferences Great

Industry conferences are a cornerstone of our interactive industry. They serve many purposes: idea exchange, education, soapbox, vendor bazaar, sponsorship, promotions, networking, market intelligence and revenues for the producer.… Read the rest

I Was Hacked By Internet Scum

I suspected it a few weeks ago when my Google news reader included some garbled code along with my blog’s usual RSS news feed content. Everything then seemed ok, so I let it go. Then Matt Hurst emailed me over the weekend to let me know the homepage of this blog was publishing links to dozens of MP3 download sites in the footer.… Read the rest

Marketers: Beware Of Blogging Simply For SEO

The following is also my latest MediaPost Spin column

Marketers: Beware Of Blogging Simply For SEO

The search-engine optimization (SEO) community has gone gaga over social media. The evidence is everywhere.

Consider Sphinn, the news-voting site for search and interactive marketers — affiliated with Danny Sullivan’s esteemed Search Engine Land.… Read the rest

Noah Brier On Likemind and Brand Tags

I caught up this morning with my intellectually curious friend, Noah Brier??????. By morning, Noah’s the founder of likemind.us, an international network of like-minded people that meet for coffee. By day, he’s a strategist at Naked Communications, the communications planning agency.… Read the rest