WordPress Wednesday News: 4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts
Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2...

Want to improve your blog?
If you want to improve the focus of your blog and make sure that it s doing its job, then the best place to start (as well as asking your readers directly) is to check on your stats or analytics package. It contains a mine of useful information whi...

Ted Mininni: It s about conceptualizing ideas...
Have you ever heard of an advertising agency whose principals don t think their future is in advertising? Then, you haven t heard of Gary Koepke and Lance Jensen, Boston-based Modernista s founders. In a recent USA Today article, Ad agency M...

What is PR s Elevator Pitch?
I participated in a more-fascinating-than-usual Blogtalkradio interview today, hosted by Al Kreuger and featuring Keith O Brien of PRWeek, Jennifer Leggio (@mediaphyter) and Nicole Jordan of The Rubicon Project (a client, though that was merely a ...

Retailers employee tracking: primitive Taylorism
The Wall Street Journal runs a story today on how retailers (behind firewall, I fear) are running the data on sales staffs and optimizing them. They use human capital management systems sold by companies like Oracle and SAP. And like the scientific...

Chris Garrett Pre-Launches Authority Blogger - How to Use Blogs to Build Your Authority
Today I m excited to announce that my co-author of ProBlogger the Book, Chris Garrett, has just pre-launched a new training course for bloggers Authority Blogger.This is not a how to blog course - instead it is a course for people wanting to ...

Ann Handley: Who s Going to Scottsdale? Amber Naslund
The upcoming MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer takes place next month in Scottsdale, Arizona. You ve probably already seen the stellar speaker lineup, keynotes, and sponsor list. But as the name Mixer suggests, the attendees are an equally imp...

Ann Handley: Who s Going to Scottsdale? Frank C. Martin, III
The upcoming MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer takes place next month in Scottsdale, Arizona. You ve probably already seen the stellar speaker lineup, keynotes, and sponsor list. But as the name Mixer suggests, the attendees are an equally imp...

Speaking at Blog World Expo 2008
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I m one of many featured speakers at Blog World Expo 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. I ll actually be on two panels this year, one as a speaker and the other as a moderator. Both panels are focused on (...