I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to manage my time and all the information that comes at me every day. I know a lot of you do too. Many of us run our own companies, are working on cool projects that absorb all of our attention, and are constantly trying to find balance.
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Information overload is not a new concept for me. After all, I declared email bankruptcy way back in 2007. Sadly, that was a bit too well publicized at places like USA Today and the London Times, which means it’s REALLY embarrassing that I haven’t yet learned from my experiences.
Recently, I was reading Clay Johnson’s blog [...]
I love the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. I use it all the time and I demo it a lot when speaking at events. But I have no idea what the URL is. When I want to use it, I just do whatever else does whenever they want to go to any site on the web. [...]
This morning, TechFlash noted that Drugstore.com is expanding its microsite strategy around product categories. The growing list now includes:
deluxesalonsupply.com
beauty.com
visiondirect.com
sexualwellbeing.com
athisbest.com
thenaturalstore.com
allergysuperstore.com
Possibly you can already tell based on my headline that I think this is not the awesomest strategy ever. I could call it short-sighted, misguided, any number of other prefixed words, but perhaps I’ll just tell you [...]
Last week, I gave a workshop about local search at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference. (I also did a short video on the topic.) One of the things I talked about was how important it is for local businesses to be visible in web search and map search results. After all, over 90% of us online [...]
