My Radio Debut
I made my radio debut yesterday. My daughter is a DJ on a new radio station in Erie called Happi 92.7 HD (you can listen online) and I was telling her about the new stuff in iOS7, so she asked me to...
View ArticleYour Community Can Impact the Larger Web Space
I'm currently working on a new book project on digital strategies. This book is going to encompass my two decades of experience working with the web, and digital technologies. It will cover every...
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Do You “Really” Get What Hashtags Are?
So you’re looking to build up your social networking traffic and you discovered the use of hashtags on your posts? This article isn't about teaching you the benefit of tagging your posts, it's about...
View ArticleThe Web - How I Got Into This?
The purpose of this is to cover some of the history of the Web, and how it impacted me personally. Hopefully you’ll find this story entertaining, if you lived the experience then you know it, but if...
View ArticleDon't Damage Your Site's Ranking
Making sure your site comes at the top of listings of search engines are probably one of the main issues many Webmasters concern themselves with. One thing that can impact search engine rankings and...
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Who's #1 In Your Industry? Use Analytics To Find Out What's Hot
I hear it all the time from Chief Marketing Officers, and those in the executive level, they want data. You can’t make decisions on a gut feeling, or what you perceive your competitors are doing, or...
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What You Should Know About Customer, Digital, and Contextual Experience
Are your customers having a disjointed and disconnected experience when they access your digital assets? Are they clicking endlessly in order to find something relevant? What does having a disjointed...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About Blog and Social Management
It may seem overwhelming to have a website, and make blog posts, and trying to build up your online and social presence. Especially for the small company where you may be an employee of one or a few,...
View ArticleSocial Media's Dirty Little Secret
I blogged previously about tagging of posts, and how the technology is great since the tags are applied by humans and not some algorithm like the Googlebot. But there is a dark side, since there is a...
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Are You a LinkedIn Floater?
I find articles and discussions I read on LinkedIn usually provide me with fodder for blogging on my site. This week I noticed a lot of articles that are reduced in quality, which makes me think...
View ArticleBuilding a Community Site - It's all about people
Sometimes in the online world when approaching a project people seem to classify the issues facing a website as a technology issue. It's as if building a web site is this mysterious thing wrapped in so...
View ArticleThe Case for Social Networks in the Business
Having worked in the entertainment industry, they tend to be one step ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to using web technologies to promote their business, artist, talent, whatever. How can...
View ArticleDon't Let Social Media Kill You
Ok, maybe not death, but impact to your business. In a previous article I wrote about the fake likes, followers, and building a false perception in social media, and now for some more of the dark...
View ArticleWhat?! You Don't Have a Content Management System Yet?!
Are you still creating static HTML pages, or have some custom in-house application that someone wrote years ago and you don't remember who? Maybe it's time for you to implement a content management...
View ArticleWith Passion Comes a Stellar Career
How do you build yourself as a consultant to become recognized above and beyond the fold? In this article, I'll use myself as an example (now my ego is not this monstrosity that I believe I'm a super...
View ArticleContent Management vs Content Marketing
So many new words have come into existence since I started web development back in the early 90s. From SEO, to social media, another new term is content marketing. Coming from the content management...
View ArticleB2B e-Commerce, Who's Your End User?
Having participated on several B2B e-Commerce projects, I have sat in meetings where people refer to companies like Amazon.com when building specifications for their websites. Not much time is devoted...
View ArticleSite Performance Issues? Research First.
So CPU is spiked and it's time to upgrade your web server to a new one. Or is it really a problem with CPU?In many cases finding what the particular performance issue is with a website can be...
View ArticleDo You Really Need Your Phone To Survive?
Post by Patrick Santry.Of course this all in jest, but it really stuck with me on how people view their personal technology. It has become so prevelant that it's the first thing that comes to mind?Has...
View ArticleDon't Sacrifice Content for Content Marketing.
So in a previous post I explained the differences between content management, and content marketing. One is the mechanism used for posting and organizing content, and the other is for getting...
View ArticleNew Podcast: Why Go Mobile?
In this podcast, I'm talking about mobile and does your company really need a mobile enabled site? Maybe it's not that folks aren't using their phones to access your site; maybe you're just creating...
View ArticleThey're Posting What Pictures On the Cloud?!
Today's podcast is all about the cloud. Just turning on the TV this week has news all over about celebrities posting nude pictures of themselves on the cloud. But really, what are the advantages and...
View ArticleNew Podcast: Apple, Disqus, and More!
I'm talking about what Apple is doing to respond to the iCloud breach, the upcoming iPhone 6 launch. Disqus has a new look to their website widget. And a little more to vent about.
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Building Your Digital Strategy Framework
Have you started building out your digital strategy plan? Do you even know where to start? There are so many technologies, and acronyms thrown out there, what are they and where do they fit into your...
View ArticleAre You Missing Out on Conversions?
First of all what is a conversion? For an eCommerce site it could be a macro-conversion like ordering product. That's clean and clear cut, it's generating revenue, and has value. Another conversion, a...
View ArticleCan DNN Ever Make the Magic Quadrant?
I had the enjoyment to go on several job interviews recently in the Pittsburgh area. Most of the companies I targeted were large above $1 billion companies. And since my background is in content...
View ArticleAmazon Echo - Alexa Help Me Shop
So my Amazon Echo came in this week. It still has a ways to go, but it's changing the face of digital channels. In this review, I talk about Alexa, some of the things it can do, what it can't and where...
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