November 2009

Recently an interviewer was asking someone, “How do I know, what it is I should be doing?”  The interviewee answered succinctly, “Two things: it’s fulling and it’s fruitful.” This question was posed in the context of “How do I know what I should be doing with my life?”  Some people don’t know the answer to [...]

There are quite a few ways you can use Google Adsense.  Here are a three ways to help you get started with Google Adsense. 1. Don’t Use Google Adsense Google Adsense is great if you’re trying to make money from a website that has tons of traffic.  Don’t forget that people need to click on [...]

Question: How do I create a twitter icon/link that readers can use to promote my blog posts, scrunch up the URL of the blog post so it fits appropriately within the 140 character limitation of twitter, and send it to twitter when someone click on the icon/link? Answer: Use a TweetMeme button plugin by installing [...]

Here’s this weeks Five Faves.  Five favorite sites that offer an incredibly useful tool or two, a stunning design (eye candy) or some thought-provoking thinkery.  Feel free to sprinkle some of your own faves that you’ve discovered recently, in the comments. 1. JoliCloud I saw a tweet on twitter about JoliCloud, an operating system built [...]

Want to make money online with your twitter stream or any other social media stream?  In-Stream advertising is the answer, or is it? What is In-Stream Advertising? Using twitter for this example, In-Stream Advertising is placing ads in your twitter stream to promote someone else’s product or service. Now some folks might say, “NEVER!!  I [...]

Here’s this weeks Five Faves.  Five favorite sites that offer an incredibly useful tool or two, a stunning design (eye candy) or some thought-provoking thinkery.  Feel free to sprinkle some of your own faves that you’ve discovered recently, in the comments. 1. PageLime PageLime is a “remote Conent Management System”.  It reads an existing site’s [...]

In Getting Started with Google Wave,  I mentioned one of the things you can do to get started with Google Wave is type in and enter with:public in the search box above your list of waves.  That command will create a list of public waves that will flood your Google Wave inbox. To narrow the [...]

Twitter lists are here and everyone’s talkin’ about ‘em, and figuring out how to use ‘em.  The folks over at twitter are putting the finishing touches on lists and giving access to a lot more people. You can create two types of lists: Public and Private.  I’ll explain both and offer ways to use them. [...]