USEFUL INFO: From Michael Hyatt, 10 Mistakes When You Blog

December 1, 2009

I’ve had many friends and acquaintances who have been disappointed with the results of their blogging.  They generally stop posting after they see the number of readers who don’t come to their blog. This post from Michael Hyatt, the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, outlines 10 mistakes that are real easy to make when you [...]

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READ THIS: Twitter changes customer service to real time, like right now

July 7, 2009

You may have heard one too many stories about Twitter and how it’s changing the world. This is another and it’s about how Virgin America Airlines reacted to a mom anxious about her young traveling kids waiting on the tarmac, according to MSNBC. They were stranded for a lengthy period of time with no takeoff [...]

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SMALL BUSINESS BLOG–Paramount Coffee, roaster and sales in Lansing (MI)

June 3, 2009
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Mid-Michigan businesses have been slow to adopt blogging as part of their communication strategy. The latest to make the move that I’ve seen is Paramount Coffee, a local roaster which sells their own brand and others around the country.  We’ve bought Paramount ground coffee from the local Sam’s Club for several years. By-the-way, my wife [...]

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This is for everybody from my pastor to my state senator, mayor, city council members, etc.

May 16, 2009

This is the best free advice I’ve seen in a long time for anybody trying to persuade or sell a product or a set of ideas. There are so many individuals and groups with so many important things to say and they’re failing at it.  Chaos rules in the whole communication arena. Pastors struggle with [...]

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Lansing (MI) Mayor Virg Bernero uses Twitter about controversial City Council vote

May 11, 2009

Just got word via Twitter from Lansing (MI) Mayor Virg Bernero that our City Council voted down a controversial proposal to sell a city parking ramp. What’s neat is that Bernero used micro-blogging to get the word out before the 11 p.m. news and before any bulletin from the Lansing State Journal.  Of course, there’s [...]

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Why are businesses and corporations having a tough time getting into blogging?

April 25, 2009

I’ve talked to all kinds of business people, with small and medium sized operations, about business blogging. Real estate types seem to get it, but others are real slow to think seriously about it. This set of slides from Debbie Weil, an early and major proponent of business blogging, helps explain this hesitancy from businesses [...]

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Is Steve Kayser right about number of URLs in Google index?

February 17, 2009

I should probably feel good about getting a blog post high on a search engine results page.  Steve Kayser at his Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs says that Google indexes more than one trillion unique URLs and that it has more than two billion searches each day. Wow.  Try to wrap your head around that [...]

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For my friends looking for 45 good blog post ideas

February 17, 2009

Just got this tip from a tweet by Problogger’s Darren Rowse about 45 ideas for blog posts by Adam Singer of Future Buzz. I like his third idea:  List the 101 essential people, sites, or posts in your niche.  I’m going to look more closely at the others. The ideas might be helpful particularly for [...]

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Here’s how newspapers are changing and for the better

February 17, 2009

For those who miss the days when newspapers actually had news, Steve Rubel sees some positive signs of their return, but not in their historical dead tree variety. Rubel is a veteran tracker of new media trends and he says in this post there are plenty of examples of newspapers reinventing themselves. He points to [...]

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Check out how Pastor Noel Heikkinen of mid-Michigan uses blog for sermon prep

February 6, 2009

How can a blog be useful to a preaching pastor? Pastor Noel Heikkinnen of Riverview Church in the Lansing (MI) area is using his blog to start a sermon series this weekend on prayer.  He posted a series of questions for his flock on their prayer lives and their attitude about prayer. Check out the [...]

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