Business Blogs: Managing a Company Blog

WordPress Updates and Plugin Issues

Tim Hickman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:43:12 +0000

If you didn’t already know it, WordPress has another security update, version 2.8.5 is now available and your WordPress blogs do need to be updated. (if you would like for us to the update for you, you can contact us here). However, that’s not the reason for today’s blog post. Nope, today I want to [...]

Business Blogging Hype

Tim Hickman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:27:25 +0000

OK, It’s officially time for everyone to stop screaming, “You need a blog!” Everyone already knows they need a blog, so let’s move on. There are literally millions of blogs now, and if you’re trying to improve your SEO and stay up with the competition, you already know you need one. Odds are, you already [...]

Start Blogging, Anytime!

Tim Hickman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:01:23 +0000

I won’t load you down with excuses or reasons for why I haven’t been blogging regularly here. Let’s just say, I’ve been busy…. But there is good news in this regard. You see, you can start blogging anytime. Even if it’s a restart. Like me lately, some of you may have a blog that’s been [...]

Optimized Company Blog

Tim Hickman — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:34:25 +0000

Having a company blog and having an optimized company blog are two very different things. Some of you probably already know this based on your current search engine result page placements… Which is why you’re probably looking for help in the optimization department. To which we say, ‘we’re sooo glad you asked’. Because that’s where [...]

Technology, Business and How far we’ve come

Tim Hickman — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:04:10 +0000

It’s an extremely cool world we live in. Why do I say this? Because I’m a forty year old computer geek that’s seen quite a bit of technology evolve in my lifetime. For example, I’m writing this blog post from my laptop, while sitting in the front seat of our car. Even better is the [...]

Community is the Key

Tim Hickman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:20:29 +0000

I get emails every day from readers of this and some of my other blogs. Many of these contain comments like “how do you find this stuff” and “you are really great at finding….”. To which I say, thank you, but I have to admit that more than 50% of the time, it’s not me. [...]

Think Positive, Everything is Amazing Right Now

Tim Hickman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:55:08 +0000

I am a firm believer when it comes to the power of positive thinking. If you think bad stuff is going to happen, it probably will. But I also believe that the opposite of that is true as well. So I laughed my head off when I saw this clip from Louis CK about how [...]

Bloggers are not Journalists, says House

Tim Hickman — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:15:26 +0000

First amendment? Not on our watch says the House of Representatives when it comes to bloggers. In a story today at Web Pro News, Jason Lee Miller goes over the points of a new bill in Congress designed to protect journalists from revealing their sources. Now and forever. But the House has other plans when [...]

Social Site Breakdown

Tim Hickman — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:42:34 +0000

I was doing some stumbling this morning and came across a really funny breakdown of the major social bookmarking / social networking websites. Here’s a little clip of their explanation from the page I found: “Would you like to make connections for business relationships or communicate to your legions of followers that you will be [...]

Newspaper Online! Information Flashback

Tim Hickman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:29:22 +0000

It was super interesting to see this video this morning. It’s a news report from 1981 about being able to read the newspaper using your home computer. At the time, this concept was absolutely unheard of. To think, the millions of blogs out there today started with these humble beginnings….. 2 HOURS to download a [...]