By Mike McCready on July 20, 2010
It seems that tag clouds are hard to find these days. Almost like a good movie from Hollywood lately. Not that long ago, tag clouds seemed to be on a lot of web sites, including mine. They basically took all the categories a web site used to group content and presented them as hyperlinks in [...]
Posted in Blogging | Tagged blogging, blogs, Social Media, tag cloud, tags
By Mike McCready on July 17, 2010
Its been a while since I’ve been very active blogging. After some time, I got discouraged thinking that I had to write an elaborate and incredible post. Thinking this made it even harder to get back to blogging. I finally realized that some of the best blog posts are simple. Look at most of Seth [...]
Posted in Content, Social Media | Tagged blogging strategy, blogs, content strategy
By Mike McCready on February 16, 2010
In 2008, I wrote a post entitled, ‘Blogs Aren’t Wine & Cheese.’ In the post I suggest that blogs are best served fresh and become less effective the more stale they are, whereas some of the best cheese and wine are very old. I would like to extend that thought to more than blogs. We [...]
Posted in Social Media, Tips & Tricks | Tagged blogs, Communication, facebook, Social Media, social networking, strategy
By Mike McCready on August 13, 2009
In January I wrote a post titled, ‘Social Media… Is It a Fad?‘. In this post I started to address some of the reasons why I think Social Media is NOT a fad. This video there are some very interesting statistics about social media usage and predictions for the future. This video has a similar [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Tagged blogging, blogs, Brand, Communication, Media, Social Media, Social Network, social networking, Statistics, strategy, Twitter, Web 2.0, Weblogs, YouTube
By Mike McCready on August 4, 2009
Do you own your own business? Do you work at a higher education instituion? Do you run a non-profit agency? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, you should be blogging. Listen to Seth Godin and Tom Peters talk about their thoughts on blogging and how effective a tool it is.
Posted in Marketing, Social Media | Tagged Blog, blogging, blogs, Higher education, HigherEd Web, Marketing, Seth Godin, Social Media, Web 2.0