Speaking at the GOING FREELANCE Seminar on October 18th
October 12, 2008 :: Shashi BellamkondaI am honored to speak at the Going Freelance Seminar sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Masters of Arts in Writing Program and American Independent Writers. Details of the event are here:
GOING FREELANCE: An All-Day Seminar on Saturday, October 18, 2008
Jointly sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Masters of Arts in Writing Program and American Independent Writers
Johns [...]
Join our Popcorn Party for a Good Cause
October 9, 2008 :: cbensenNot too long ago I wrote about Connor, a 10 year old entrepreneur, who decided that he wanted to take his annual fundraising of selling popcorn to a new level. Shashi, our Social Media Swami asked me to come up with a plan to help Connor.
I decided to introduce him to the world of social [...]
Almost Live from Blog World Expo : Lara Kulpa Ginkgoconsulting.com
October 8, 2008 :: Shashi BellamkondaGinkgo Consulting is an SEO marketing firm but Lara is also a Virtual Assistant for Darren Rowse. Ginkgo is a new firm and they focus on web site overhauls to tune the
She points out that there are three things they should do when doing an overhaul or getting online:
1.) Add a blog
2.) Give something away
3.) [...]
Building Your Brand Series - Part 1 - Listening
October 8, 2008 :: cbensenThe goal of this series is to take your online presence to a new level. A great book to read on this topic is Groundswell by Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff. It outlines the steps to leveraging the power of your customers online. And it also has many case studies to give you lots of [...]
Almost Live From Blog World Expo : Marissa Louie and Duc Haba of Ad-Village.com
October 7, 2008 :: Shashi BellamkondaAd Village is a new ad platform for bloggers that gives back 80-100% of ad revenue back to bloggers. They use crowdsourcing to refine the methods that people advertise on blogs and use sophistcated analytics to target better than ever. They just launched at Blog World and they have tons of sponsors with a team [...]
Building your Brand 101 Series
October 6, 2008 :: cbensenMy first series was an outline of Building your Business Online and listed the steps to get a presence established online. The last step was marketing. Establishing your brand online is a bit different than doing it for a brick & mortar. The virtual world allows for more creativity but it also offers some new [...]
Almost Live from Blog World Expo : Sarah Carr of Mindtouch.com
October 3, 2008 :: Shashi BellamkondaMindTouch is an open source Wiki solution, but make no mistake, they are a serious company with a for-profit business model that has produced one of the top Wiki products out on the market today. I personally have done many Wiki implementations and I can tell you that MindTouch is easy to install, configure and [...]
Live From Blog World Expo : Nansen and Brett Malin mrdatacorp.com
October 2, 2008 :: Shashi BellamkondaNansen and Bret are fans of Network Solutions and are great examples of small business customers that we treasure so much. MR Data Corporation is a firm specializing in the data processing of market research and public opinion survey information. They provide a full range of processing services, including coding, data entry, word processing, cross [...]
Upcoming Event - Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008
October 2, 2008 :: Steve FisherComing this weekend is a great social media event. The Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008 is taking place October 5, 2008 at Baruch College Vertical Campus Conference Center in New York City. Register now.Address: Baruch College Vertical Campus Conference Center, Rooms 14-220 and 14-250 (14th floor), One Bernard Baruch Way (55 Lexington at 24th St), [...]
Almost Live from Blog World Expo : Katie Lewis of TechSmith : Jing and Snag-it
October 1, 2008 :: Shashi BellamkondaTechSmith is a software company that offers an array of products like Camtasia which is perfect for doing screencasts. They also offer Snag-It which is a way to do a screen grab and send it someone in order to communicate what you are talking about. This is incredibly valuable for IT support and for bloggers [...]
