In brief

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Here are 10 tips for online marketing success.
Be brief.
Be useful.
Be bold.
I've used this blog to learn, to play, to grow.
But to be useful to anyone but me, I'm gonna' have to take my own advice.

One Mo' List

Image via Wikipedia

Ten of this, seven of that; web 2.0 is bursting with lists. Making lists is touted as one of the cardinal rules of blogging. There are so many lists that there are lists outlining how to deal with lists. Today's lists included How to be more productive with social media; another list of things to do with social media, many of them lists.
I'm listing, already. I'm sinking. The web has more lists then women's magazines. Anybody done a list of the lists?

And this isn't to mention all the lists I'm on. Woe to those are listless. Maybe not. Maybe they're the lucky ones.

All a twitter

Image by Kevglobal via Flickr

Just went to Mr.Tweet, Your Personal Networking Assistant for twitter. Thirty minutes later he (she? it?) had found 200 people for me to follow; people who write and think about things that interest me. I'm not going to follow all 200, but I clicked the "Follow" button for so many that I'll have to switch from my twitter gadget to a tweetdeck. I remember the old days when I thought a gadget was cool;  two, two-and-a-half weeks ago.

When all of this was new to me (two, two-and-a-half months ago) I thought it was funny.    Not any more.  When did that happen?  Two, two-and-half minutes ago? 

Un-networking

Image via Wikipedia

You can divorce him, but can you keep him out of your social network?

If you've got a blog, a twitter account, or any kind of online presence, how can you keep an ex- out of your network? You can ignore the Facebook friend invites; you don't have to LinkIn, but he can still read your blog, see your public profile, and follow you on twitter. What do you do?