It’s a real problem. Having a website all about animals is bound to have some effects on your attitudes towards animals. It’s not that I haven’t always loved animals – I grew up with animals and they have always been part of the family. I knew that I had a lot to learn before I […]
I love working on The Pet Wiki. It’s really amazing how much incredible and useful information keeps being added. It’s a lot of fun watching the traffic grow and more users register with the site. It’s far from done, not that a website can ever truly be done, but there are some very major features […]
A lot of passionate & negative reaction to Penelope Trunk’s Women Don’t Want To Run Startups Because They’d Rather Have Children in TechCrunch this past weekend. And yet I wonder to what degree people agree on some of the core issues. Let me attempt a restatement of her core argument: More Men Than Women Sacrifice Family, […]
Also see: Best of SMX East 2011 SMX East was great. Here was the best of the best: Best lines: Tom Petryshen: One of the best ways to motivate people is fear. But if you can’t do that you can try things like focus and discipline. Geoff Donaker (Yelp CEO): With whom do we compete? Everybody […]
I was surprised how long I was able to hold off on getting my own server. I was able to use shared hosting for quite some time with only some mild headaches. Programming and modifying extensions for MediaWiki has been a lot of fun, but now the time has come to take it to the […]
Here’s the essence of my SMX East presentation on Community-Generated Content & Search Traffic: Search Traffic What kind of content gets search traffic? “Quality” content? Content where an SEO expert optimized the titles and meta-tags and sprinkled the right keywords? Content that gets links? Sure, that helps, but it’s not where it starts. Consider the […]
For this blog post, I thought that I’d go back to basics. After speaking with a few friends, I thought it was about time that I came out and wrote down what I have to share about creating web content: Don’t undervalue content. There are a lot of people out there that think anyone can […]
I’ve spoken a lot more about twitter than facebook, because that’s where my pawpawty anipals are. When I was starting out in Social Media, that’s where I put most of my effort. I have a huge disadvantage with twitter because most of the people that I talk to that follow The Pet Wiki are many […]
WordCamp Jerusalem had a very strong finish. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines: Matt Mullenweg: People have better things 2 do. The tool should be invisible. Take 1 sec from 15 mil users. That’s a lot of time. (Discussing WordPress history): Some of the conversations were a bit combative. But you guys should […]
I’m excited that I’m going to hear Liz Cohen discuss corporate blogging at Word Camp Jerusalem this Sunday. Liz runs Answers.com’s blog, no.stupid.answers. A corporate blog lets you connect people with your vision of your company. Through no.stupid.answers Liz and her colleagues connect with the Answers.com community around a vision of building the world’s greatest […]