Archive for April, 2007

New eMedia Discussion Forum

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

At Penton, I used to moderate an emedia discussion forum on our intranet, "The Loop." I loved the idea sharing, problem solving, and community that we developed out there. Not only was it incredibly useful, but it was a lot of fun as well. So I've decided to launch an emedia discussion ...

Social Media Optimization (SMO)

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Another post live from the Minday summit. In a session about growing your online audience and Jamie Pallot with CondeNet just dropped a term that is gaining new momentum with online audience development: SMO. What is SMO? Social Media Optimization ... getting your content integrated into blogs, forums, social bookmarking ...

Live from Minday - Creating Community

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

I'm here at the Minday Summit in New York with a packed room listening to a panel speaking on community development. This is obviously a hot topic for any publisher today. All of the speakers talk about the cool community features they've been developing (and many of them are indeed ...

Irritating Flashing Bright Colored Ads

Monday, April 16th, 2007

John Payne with MedTech Publishing forwarded me a note from a reader who was complaining about the number of irritating, flashing, bright-colored ads on his site, Healthcare IT News. John asked a great question about whether these flashing ads were a norm online and if this was more of a ...

eMedia Sales Support and Online Tradeshows - Some Q&A

Friday, April 13th, 2007

It's been incredibly busy recently so I've been a little negligent at posting to my blog. But during this time, I've had the opportunity to converse via email with several friends, media execs, and P.E. firms about various topics. My next couple posts will be excerpts from those conversations. I ...