In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Engage Or Die - The Rise Of User-Generated Content

By Simon Dance
Why do people spend so much time creating and uploading content for the internet? In the view of MySpace guru Richard Rosenblatt, the answer is age-old: ‘People like to express themselves, and they want to be famous. Those are two things we saw from the very beginning of MySpace. Five years ago MySpace [...]

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Seven Questions to Ask Before You Advertise

by Michelle PW
Most business owners and managers keep a fairly close eye on their marketing budgets.
And nothing throws a budget out of whack faster than advertising.
“Running small, inexpensive ads can be a good way to test certain marketing aspects before launching big, expensive, time-consuming campaigns.”
Advertising, or paying good money to get your message in front [...]

In: OS WebMaster, Web Graphics Help, Web Help

Designing Visualizations for Time-Based Data

There’s a reason that great leaders are called “visionaries.” There’s a reason that the power of the imagination fueling the arts, architecture, science fiction, and engineering, leads and then manifests what it sees — in reality. I remember when there were those arguing that websites and web pages were best left without graphics. [...]

In: OS WebMaster, Web Help

Working with CSS, DHTML and JavaScript

XHTML. DHTML. CSS. JavaScript. AJAX. A lot of acronyms for Open Source WebMasters to juggle. Here, you can learn about how CSS, DHTML & JavaScript — major components of and compliments to AJAX — work together in useful ways, see some examples, and try some exercises on your own… [...]

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Social Bookmarking And Power Linking

By Andrew Daum

Just in case you missed it… the Web has changed.
I think a little history of the Internet is in order to grasp the big picture. I’m not going to give any dates (late eighties and early 90’s)… I’ll just give a quick run down.
I would say nearly fifteen years ago I had a [...]

In: Web Help

SEO a Scam? The Truth About the Industry

By Steve Devries
I frequent many SEO and Web Marketing forums on a daily basis and every so often there is a debate about the SEO industry and ethics. After being involved in a number of these debates, it has become really obvious that the main problems are the facts that no two SEO companies [...]

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Four Commercial Production Options in Podcast Advertising

By Patrysha Korchinski

There are three important components to buying podcast advertising that influence how well your commercial will work to meet your goals. The first element is the podcast or podcasts that you choose to buy time on. Finding the right podcast for your product or service is one part of the equation. The second [...]