Category: Technology

  • Squeezing the webinar juice

    Do you ever ask these questions? What should I blog about? What should I be doing in social media? If I wanted to write a book, what should I write it about? How do I become a better public speaker? If the answer is yes, then your next step is a webinar on the topic…

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  • What’s in common? A simple Google Reader heuristic

    What’s in common? A simple Google Reader heuristic Want to see what happens when you don’t just wantonly add everyone in your address book to your Google Reader shared subscriptions? If you are subscribed to people who share good stuff (presumably respected colleagues and friends), you’ll know when something REALLY important happens because suddenly it’ll…

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  • Twitpocalypse postponed due to vuvuzelas

    It’s true, as posted in the Twitter API group: as you’ve all probably noticed, with the world cup going on, twitter is experiencing record load. because of this, we’re moving the oauth switchover date to august 16, 2010. we want to make sure that you all have calm waters to test your new codebases where…

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  • The almost-free ultimate DIY iPad case video review

    Want to see the almost-free ultimate DIY iPad case? Check out my homemade one in a short three minute video: Feel free to copy the idea for your own personal electronics. Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, please subscribe right now! Get this and other great articles from the source at www.ChristopherSPenn.com! Want…

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  • Work-related: SocialSync leaves the nest

    I very rarely write about work-related stuff directly here because I figure you can get it on the company blog if you’re so inclined. That said, this is an announcement that’s been a long time in coming (more than two years!), well before I was even an employee at Blue Sky Factory. Today, we’re all…

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  • iPhone 4 and iOS 4 for the sales and marketing nerd

    A few quick takeaways from the WWDC keynote address, in which Steve Jobs asks you to spend more of your money on Apple products. Image courtesy of Engadget FaceTime video calls: very slick. The stealth winner in this is if you and your customer both have iPhone 4 units. Very few people are capable of…

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  • Fix the latest WordPress hack

    Latest update to this is at the bottom of the post. Both Marketing Over Coffee and my blog are getting nailed with this hack described by Chris Pearson. Here’s the solution for tackling it, for the moment, until the attack adapts. Log into your MySQL database (most hosts have this via PHPmyAdmin) and execute this…

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  • Vox Populi: Q1 2010

    Vox Populi: Q1 2010 One of the things I did at the end of the year last year was to review the top posts of 2009, and that got me thinking: why don’t we do this stuff more often, like quarterly? I think it’s because we, the content creators, assume it’s been seen and seen…

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  • Why you need calls to action in your blog posts

    If you’ve been reading this blog for any period of time, you’ve likely noticed these lovely buttons on the right: You may also have noticed that there’s a deeply redundant piece at the bottom of every blog post: I know what you’re thinking. You’re saying to yourself, Chris, that’s redundant. And it’s redundant, too. Why…

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  • How to tell if you are a doomed marketer

    Once upon a time, marketing was just marketing. It was a fabulous era of big brands, big launches, big parties. Martinis were de rigueur, agencies ruled the world, and three piece suits (that looked MAHHH-velous) were the signs of the professional marketer. Once upon a time, technology was just technology. If you were in IT…

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