This post and discussions are now taking place at my company's blog, Professional Blog Service. I used to be the Risk Communication Director at the Indiana State Department of Health and one of the things we prepared for over and over ...Read More

Are you using old school techniques to measure new media?

My friend and fellow social media guy Kyle Lacy asked a question on Smaller Indiana about whether we should measure Web 2.0 with Web 1.0 tools. The problem, Kyle says, is that Marketing 1.0 folks are expecting old school results with ...Read More

A few days ago, Elizabeth Friedland (aka the Circle City Snark) wrote about the proliferation of social media professionals we have on the web these days. All of these interactive users are suddenly selling themselves as gurus, experts, geniuses, etc. But ...Read More

Search results that only show up as "Google Organic" don't tell me why people showed up.

From the Clicky blog, Google's new Ajax-powered search is killing keyword powered searches and hurting the analytics that we search engine optimization folks have come to rely on. Apparently, Google is testing search results delivered through Ajax from Google.com. What does ...Read More

There's an intense debate raging (okay, a quiet discussion between me and Chris Baggott) about which is more important to a blog: Good quality writing (A or A- in your English class), but with less frequency, say, twice a week High frequency ...Read More

It was a banner day for me on my Laughing Stalk blog a couple weeks ago, when I got 6,400 visitors in a single day. I usually ran about 150 - 300 visits per day, so when I saw the ...Read More

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