Archive for December, 2006

The POP! List Is Announced! »

Sam Horn, creative woman extraordinaire and author of "POP!Stand Out In Any Crowd" has released her annual The 2006 POP! Hall of Fame is up on her blog . I would encourage you to take a peek at this list and see what marketing and branding ideas you can learn from folks who are consistently [...]

Will the Real Flog please stand up? »

MediaPost just ran an excellent story on Sony being outed by bloggers for its part in the creation of yet another flog. Flogs are phony blogs created by phony bloggers (usually marketing ne’re do wells) who think the rest of the blog world is so stupid and that blog readers are so dense that they [...]

I Call Bullshit »

Where I live, in the Texas Hill Country, we’re often tired, hot, bedraggled and trying to make certain our prickly pear wine doesn’t turn into vinegar, all the while avoiding any angry rattlesnakes on our front porch.
And one thing we absolutely hate is jargon. Ok, some folks out here like jargon, but they’re usually [...]

The Backseat Writer Opines »

There are so many blogs out there but I was becoming a little like one of the cobbler’s children (sans the shoes part) that I did not have my own on my Web site!
I write two blogs for allbusiness.com - one on Professional PR and the other is the Must Read Business Books blog.
I also [...]