Over the past couple of weeks I’ve performed some social media consulting for SmartDraw, namely helping them use their blog. SmartDraw produces versatile diagramming software, which I have used for years; you can see some of the diagrams I produced with SmartDraw in my popular post How to Use Diagramming to Easily Organize and Plan Projects.

My last theme was simply painful to look at. The readability was poor and the navigation was too noisy. I took some time off from posting in order to line up somebody to design a custom theme for me, and I found JTK, who was able to rocket out the theme in a remarkably short [...]

Digg’s social networking features, and I’m not talking about the shouts, but the very core of Digg - the emphasis on recruiting your friends to sign up and subsequently vote on articles is what has moved Digg away from the diverse and different media to narrow, mainstream content.

I’m taking a marketing class this semester at Vanderbilt University and in the run of this course we have to consult a real client based here in Nashville, Tennessee on his or her marketing strategy. My group and I are consulting for a company named CountryHound, which runs a fan site oriented towards providing independent [...]

Over the weekend there were rumors that Yahoo! would reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion dollar offer, claiming that Microsoft’s offer “substantially undervalues the company.” Well, Yahoo’s shareholder relations office confirmed that rumor this morning, and it didn’t take Microsoft very long to respond with it’s own press release decrying how “unfortunate” this move is for Yahoo!.
And [...]

I’m going to be trying something revolutionary over the next couple of weeks, and that is posting my schedule of blog entries in advance. Maybe this will be something so good that Darren Rowse covers it on ProBlogger, or maybe it will be something so horribly stupid that I end up retro-actively deleting all of [...]

I was contacted by a very polite employee from Packt Publishing who asked me if I’d be willing to review one of their brand new ASP.NET books, ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials. I’m not going to add any referral links for this product as it would be a conflict of interest; the only compensation [...]

A couple of months ago when Google purchased Jaiku for $30m I confided the following to one of my schoolmates who interned for a high-profile I-Bank in New York:
To be honest, this acquisition seems outright stupid to me; Google could develop its own service for less than that, plus the service doesn’t seem particularly [...]

Well now that I have that damn DNS problem under control I can go ahead and write up my smug, self-congratulatory post on how well my 8  Bold Predictions for 2008 are turning out. Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo! doesn’t sound so insane now, does it?
One kind reader was kind enough to Digg my 8 Bold [...]

Apparently the lag-time with AjaxNinja.com’s domain forwarding has not only disabled AjaxNinja.com but it’s also screwed up all of the images on Marketing-Ninja.com. I know the images are broken, just got off of the phone with GoDaddy tech support.
Something got screwed up with my domain name forwarding and as a result all of the domain [...]