Digg Diggety Dug!
Written by Erika L Rich on March 5, 2010
Digg! Digg.com that is. I love this bookmarking site. They have a great community and this is the first site I choose to use now when I see an item on the internet that begs "digging". I decided to wax eloquent on Digg.com because Larry Brauner wanted to know what all his Facebook friends' favorite service was. Digg is mine. What is Digg? Digg is a social media news website that gives users ...
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Simply Danny Brown
Written by Erika L Rich on February 23, 2010
I don't have a lot to say today, because I'm going to let Danny Brown say it all. He posted a great ebook on his blog today about "simple" and some examples of where thinking, being, living, leading, being "simple" is better. I loved it. I hope you do too. Danny Brown: "Sometimes, as marketers and/or business owners, we over-complicate matters and offer so many facts on ideas and products that...
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The Buzz on Google Buzz is Growing!
Written by Erika L Rich on February 16, 2010
Ok. Ok. Sorry about that headline. The one thing that grabbed me real quick about Google Buzz was it's name. I think it's "cute" and easily remembered, but also easily made fun of or fit into different tongue twisters, variations, jokes, etc, etc. So when I have the opportunity I simply cannot resist see how many ways I can buzz around with the name Buzz. For the record: I am scared of bees. That ...
Continue Reading30+ Great WordPress Plugins
Written by Erika L Rich on January 22, 2010
A WordPress blog without a great assortment of installed plugins is like putting up the frame and drywall for a house, and never finishing the electrical or the plumbing. Plugins can make or break the popularity of your blog and they can also make it easier to manage. Of course there's plugins to help make you some money and plugins to help display all your awesome social content and photos. Th...
Continue ReadingSocial Media: Get on the bandwagon already!
Written by Erika L Rich on September 19, 2009
Excellent slide presentation with great statistical numbers you can use to show customers/clients/bosses/aunts/exes/whomever that social media is here and it's here to stay. Get involved and grow your business/online worth/popularity. Ignore it at peril. (WARNING: This is the R-rated version. If you are afraid of having to get your eyeballs washed out with soap, try this G-rated link: F-word Fr...
Continue ReadingInternet Spending Continues to Climb
Written by Erika L Rich on July 27, 2009
This is a very handle little article to have at your fingertips if you have to convince someone how important it is to have a web presence these days. Albeit a couplle of years old, the data is nonetheless relevant. A new study projects that internet advertising and access spending in the United States will total $78.4 billion in 2011, up from $47.2 billion in 2006, an average annual growth rate o...
Continue ReadingNew online classified service coming to town …
Written by Erika L Rich on December 9, 2008
I came across a great question the other day, "What is the number one rule in Marketing?". Sent to me by another marketer, of course. Well I have to confess, I really don't have a clue. I'm usually pretty snappy off the line on questions like this, especially since I've been in marketing for so long... but I never thought about what was the number one reason. Of course I was embarrassed when I f...
Continue ReadingGoogle SMS!
Written by Erika L Rich on November 1, 2008
Stop the presses! Another fabulous Google rollout. SMS text messages for free! At least for now. Read more here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/10/31/gmail_labs_adds_text_messaging_to_gchat-2.html Excerpt: Gmail's latest Labs experiment adds an option to send SMS textmessages to contacts from the Google Chat sidebar, at no cost and with replies arriving as new chat lines. Like other Labs...
Continue ReadingGmail Tools, Tricks and Hacks
Written by Erika L Rich on May 7, 2008
Was reading my Friendfeed email update today in between FTP'ing masses of files up to my servers, and came across this great blog post from Chris Nixon. It's only because he was following Robert Scoble, whom I was following that I found it in the first place. I no longer primarily use my Google Mail interface anymore, having moved back to Outlook, but I thought all you Gmail and Google Hosted peop...
Continue ReadingFavorite Artists on iGoogle
Written by Erika L Rich on April 30, 2008
Web News: For those of you that use Google's iGoogle as their home page of choice, know that you can customize the themes and put your own splash of personality on it. Today, Google launched the beginning of letting users decorate their space with the works fromm over 70 reknowned artists from around the world. What I thought was really great, was that the artists were not paid, however, Google d...
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