Keyword: blogging

Hilarious rap on The Elements of Style – instant classic

Hilarious rap on The Elements of Style – instant classic

“The Elements of Style” Video creator Jake Heller told Poynter.org, “Every year, Columbia Journalism School holds an end-of-semester party called Lucille’s Ball, where students roast the faculty and make light of all the hard work we put in over the semester. I knew that I wanted to make a video, but didn’t know what the video would be.” Heller continued, ...

AGBeat | 2011/12/16  | 24 Comments Editorials

Free blogging platform makes it easy to have a beautiful, modern blog

Free blogging platform makes it easy to have a beautiful, modern blog

Jux is almost too easy – marketing tool spotlight This fall we introduced you to the new, trendy blogging tool, Jux.com which we called “the sexiest underground blogging platform online” and showed you how it is being used by small businesses ranging from a professional listing the top 10 reasons she should be hired, a creative side blog all about ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/12/14  | 19 Comments Marketing

Clever idea for the tech and designed challenged business professional

Clever idea for the tech and designed challenged business professional

Easy to implement Quick, do you have 20 minutes? Great, here is a quick idea that you can execute right now. Pick up a pen, write down the top reasons someone should hire you for your services or buy your product, go to Jux.com, the free tool that we called the sexiest underground blogging platform upon its launch. Tell it ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/12/08  | 14 Comments Marketing

$2.5 million judgement against blogger – court says she is not a journalist

$2.5 million judgement against blogger – court says she is not a journalist

$10 million lawsuit against a blogger U.S. District Court judge, Marco Hernandez in Portland ruled that there is a difference between a “blogger” and a “journalist,” according to Seattle Weekly. Crystal Cox, who pens several blogs (like obsidianfinancesucks.com and judicialhellhole.com), was recently sued for $10 million by investment firm Obsidian Finance Group for defamation for writing several times on her ...

Marti Trewe | 2011/12/07  | 25 Comments Social Media

StumbleUpon gets a site makeover, now in line with hot web design trends

StumbleUpon gets a site makeover, now in line with hot web design trends

Major facelift at StumbleUpon Last month, StumbleUpon announced that they account for half of all social media traffic in America and users stay on sites they have Stumbled for longer than the average viewer spends on a site, and the life of a link shared on StumbleUpon appears to have a shelf life that is a lot longer than the other social ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/12/06  | 33 Comments Social Media

Using Jux.com for any business – blog spotlight on D.C.

Using Jux.com for any business – blog spotlight on D.C.

Using Jux.com for your business We recently introduced you to Jux.com, implying that it was the sexiest underground blogging platform and would add that it is like tumblr.com only more professional and more importantly, lower maintenance and more highly marketable. We are seeing the art community take well to the Jux.com platform, but as we have introduced it to the ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/12/05  | 16 Comments Marketing

Utah Realtor uses Jux to feature local real estate – blog spotlight

Utah Realtor uses Jux to feature local real estate – blog spotlight

Deer Valley, UT real estate We recently introduced you to Jux.com, calling it “possibly the sexiest underground blogging platform online,” and almost immediately, Ben Fisher at Summit Sotheby’s International Realty in Deer Valley, Utah began tweaking a new blog that took him a very short time to set up, and boy, is it gorgeous! The picture above is the landing ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/12/05  | 22 Comments Marketing

Facebook increases status update limit to 60,000 characters

Facebook increases status update limit to 60,000 characters

Facebook status updates Facebook originally offered only 160 characters for status updates and eventually increased the allotted space to 5,000 characters just this fall, but perhaps in response to Google+ claiming they have no character limits, Facebook has increased the allowed characters to 60,000. Although most people think this announcement is an effort to go head to head with Google+, ...

Marti Trewe | 2011/12/01  | 21 Comments News

Shareaholic – the web’s hottest secret and how it can help business bloggers

Shareaholic – the web’s hottest secret and how it can help business bloggers

Shareaholic – the secret gem of the web Shareaholic.com’s entire goal is to make sharing content online even easier than it already is, especially for those who blog for a living and while the service is well established, we find many still aren’t familiar with Shareaholic. Because Shareaholic is being accessed by over 250 million web users every month, its ...

Charlene Jimenez | 2011/11/27  | 13 Comments Boston

Automate your Google+ updates into an easy to read blog

Automate your Google+ updates into an easy to read blog

Great tool for heavy Google+ users +Plusses is a blog platform that is free and hosted for you and has a neat trick up its sleeve – aimed at high volume and highly active Google+ users, it automatically pulls all of your Google+ updates and puts them into a streamlined, aesthetically minimalist and beautiful site with no effort on your ...

Marti Trewe | 2011/11/27  | 4 Comments Social Media

Possibly the sexiest underground blogging platform online – Jux

Possibly the sexiest underground blogging platform online – Jux

If you’re easily distracted, avert your eyes It is not often that we come across something that we feel stingy about and like so much that we don’t want to share with anyone, but Jux.com made us feel possessive in just that way. It’s everything we’ve always wanted a blog to be and although it takes a second to get ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/11/26  | 29 Comments Marketing

Does site conversion increase with a visible phone number?

Does site conversion increase with a visible phone number?

Improving site conversion? Could something so simple as adding a phone number to the main page of your website really improve conversion? Could those ten digits get people to sign up for newletters, buy a product or hire you? KISSmetrics.com did an A/B test wherein website had a phone number on test A and had no phone number on test ...

AGBeat | 2011/11/24  | 17 Comments Marketing