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Jeromy Stallings

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Promote Your Blog! or: Success Notes to a Young Blogger

Every blogger aims to reach a larger audience. Unfortunately, most new bloggers don’t know much about promoting a blog when they are getting started.  Here are some tips…  Search Engine Traffic Takes Time New blogs generally take several months before they gain enough trust from search engines to produce any type of significant traffic flow. If you are planning to focus on search engines as your primary source of traffic, you would be well advised to also focus on some…
January 14, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

Use the Force, Young Jedi Padawan!

The company NeuroSky plans a revolutionary new “toy” for the Fall 2009 consumer market: The Force Trainer. It’s marketing slant: to train the minds of Young Jedi Knights. Literally. The Force Trainer—expected to be priced at $90 to $100—comes with a headset that uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower. (more…)
January 14, 2009
Marketing

This Weekend: “24” Returns to the Air!

That’s right—after the 2007 Writer’s Guild of America strike stymied production for a 2008  Season Seven of 24, the hit show is back, starting this Sunday, January 11, with two back-to-back episodes, followed by two more on Monday, January 12. After that, 24 is scheduled for new episodes each week. Let’s hope the impending Screen Actor’s Guild strike does not interfere with Jack Bauer’s adventures again!  We know that the cast and crew at Fox are cranking out episodes to…
January 9, 2009
Marketing

National Communications Association in San Diego

                        Outlets of Communication This is a belated report on the NCA Conference held last November in San Diego. We were so busy with end-of-the-year matters that this got pushed to the back burner, but has been on our minds ever since, because the NCA plays an important role in the study and discourse of everything you can imagine about the Internet, marketing on and off line, and the…
January 9, 2009
Marketing

Ninthlink Book Reviews: Blogs, Blogs, Blogs!

Uses of Blogs edited by Axel Burns and Joanna Jacobs. Peter Lang Publishers. This collection of essays brings together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields to offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on current and emerging uses of blogs. “Blogging is rapidly developing into a mainstream activity for Internet users, but beyond the popular headlines, there has been very little serious research done on their actual application in specific, everyday contexts,” claim the editors. (more…)
January 9, 2009