Reputation Management: Onesheet and Rick Santorum

July 7, 2011

Onesheet went into beta today. It looks awesome and even better, doesn’t require the band to maintain it. Here’s how Onesheet describes their service: Onesheet allows musicians to set up a web presence in minutes using content from other websites they’re already updating. They simply connect their existing social networks and services immediately have a [...]

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ICANN Opens Up Top-Level Domains: Reaction

June 20, 2011

ICANN, the non-profit organization that controls Internet naming protocols (including top-level domains (TLD’s) such as .com, .net, .org and newcomers like .biz and .jobs) has voted to open up the system so that groups can apply to create virtually any TLD such as .music or .food.

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Future of Business in Ventura County

June 13, 2011

Bill Buratto, CEO of the Ventura County Economic Development Association, has a great article in the Ventura County Star on the future of business in Ventura County. For instance, Buratto cites the movie industry as a possible driver of revenue and industry in Ventura County: We need to take local control of our own future [...]

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Square Review: Simple, Stunning and Disruptive

June 10, 2011

After reading about Square in the trades, with their mountains of venture capital and Times Square billboards, I decided to finally check out their service (I’m not the earliest of adopters, mostly because life is busy enough as it is!). A couple weeks ago, I filled out a quick form – no credit check – [...]

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Groupon’s IPO Filing and Google Offers

June 4, 2011

On Wednesday, I wrote about the new Google Offers beta test in Portland. Today on TechCrunch, Rocky Agrawal writes “Why Daily Deals Are Becoming A Raw Deal,” expertly analyzing the cost of a deal to a merchant and why it isn’t all that for a consumer either. Good stuff. An excerpt:

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Google Offers Takes on Groupon – Why It Will Work for Google

June 1, 2011

Google today announced a beta test of Google Offers, which is taking on Groupon and other coupon/offering startups head-on. Now, not every Google roll-out is a wild success (see Buzz and Wave), but Google has a few things going for it that give Offers a leg up.

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On Testing Plugins

April 7, 2011

WordPress has a fantastic developer community that creates all sorts of amazing add-on’s and functionality for websites. One plugin I’ve used very successfully is Redirection, which is particularly helpful when you relaunch a new site where the page and post URLs change. For instance we used it to redirect over 2,000 posts on The Ojai [...]

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Google Broadband Project Lands In… Kansas City

March 30, 2011

Last year, Google announced an initiative to bring an ultra high-speed broadband network to a chosen city in the United States, and the response was off the hook. Over 1,100 cities applied and many went the extra, ahem, last mile, bringing together politicians, celebrities, business leaders and more. Take for instance this Google rally in [...]

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Volunteer Ventura Summit – Social Media Presentation

January 29, 2011

I was invited to give a presentation called “Engage New Audiences and Recruit Volunteers with Social Media” for the 2011 Volunteer Ventura Summit put on by the City of Ventura. I re-recorded the presentation for internet distribution, following. It’s 17 minutes long and is a nice overview of the basics, along with some easy-to-implement action [...]

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Advanced Web Ranking Review

December 28, 2010

I’ve done a couple posts on WebPosition recently, and one of the comments discussed a site ranking software package called Advanced Web Ranking. I’m giving the 30-day trial a spin, and in full disclosure, the company offers an Enterprise license for a review, which does not include the maintenance contract, for which I’d have to [...]

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