Have you ever had a glimpse of the greater you? Maybe you reacted in an emergency with greater speed, confidence, or strength than you thought possible. Maybe one day you were forced by a sense of needing to pause, only to be confronted with an amazing sunset or the perfect evening breeze. Maybe in a…
For those that don't play, one of the most lucrative "industries" in World of Warcraft is a profession called inscription, in which you make glyphs, little pieces of paper with magical runes on them that enhance player abilities. These magical sticky notes can be sold and traded in the in-game economy. There are 3 items…
I was administering a webinar with a panel of experts recently and as I went through the registration data, I took note of the questions asked of the panelists in advance. There were a number of questions that could have been answered in four or five seconds with Google to the satisfaction of the querants.…
Over the weekend at WordCamp Boston, I had the opportunity to chat with and speak in front of many fellow content creators. One of the things that struck me most was how confined our promotional efforts are. SEO is treated as its own space, which people think about without considering social media. Social media is…
I was delighted and excited to share some of my ideas, strategies, tips, tools, and methods for how to market your blog at Boston’s WordCamp 2011 event. As the video can be tough to see in spots, I’m providing the mindmap for the session, so that if you attended (or even if you’re just curious), you…
Here’s a minor caution on any scoring mechanism. I mention Klout because it’s got mindshare, but it applies to anything which attempts to rate people by influence. Innovation has a low Klout score. You won’t spot the next hottest thing by Klout score. Like all scoring mechanisms of its kind, Klout scores are trailing indicators,…
Yesterday I shared some interesting information about how Google+ was assigning a unique, UNIX timestamp (client-side) to every clicked link. More than a few people asked how to actually get that data, since it’s not obvious. Today, we’re going to dive deep down the rabbit hole and show you how to do it yourself, step…
I was recently examining Google+ and how it transparently redirects through plus.google.com as it sends readers to your website. One of the oddities I noticed was this: https://plus.google.com/url?sa=z&n=1310267970417&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christopherspenn.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fhow-to-measure-google-plus-with-analytics%2F&usg=Fl5VGX6zftZiPhe6N1gENpM0EDQ. Take a look at how the URL starts. The second query string variable looks awfully familiar. If you’re not familiar with query string variables, they’re the key/value…
