Posts from — April 2008

I added a Digg widget to the left sidebar of my blog today. It displays all of my most recent Diggs and here is were I went to get the widget. They have a simple customization form and it even shows you what the widget will look like. As seen in the screenshot below:

Here is a blurb from the Digg page: You can easily display the latest Digg news on your site by adding a Digg Widget, now with more choices for what to show and how it’s displayed. When news is updated on Digg, it will automatically be displayed on your site, in the format that you choose.

Once I finished customizing how I wanted the widget to look I had to change the width of the widget to 175 pixels to fit in my left sidebar. The size will depend on your wordpress theme.

Then you just paste the code into your sidebar widgets in the presentation area of your wordpress admin. Good luck!

Here is my Digg page.

I just started using adobe air today. Wow, what a neat application. I still do not understand all that it can do but so far I am impressed. Here is some info posted on Adobe’s website about it: Adobe AIR enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time.

The only app I have used so far is twhirl. Twhirl is a free application that makes it very easy to update your Twitter status. I also has many other useful features. So, if your a twitter user be sure to try this one out.

Here is a listing of the current Adobe Air apps

Go here to download Adobe Air.

If you are already a facebook user you may be familiar with facebook pages. Facebook pages gives you a simple and free way to advertise for your business. You can create a page that other people can become a “fan” of. Once someone has become a fan of your page or business, you can then send them updates, event notifications, and start discussions. It is a great way to spread the word and if you want to target a niche group of people you can do so by advertising your page on facebook. Facebook provides excellent ways to promote your page by PPC(pay per click) ads.

They have built in statistics for your pages and your ads. It is nothing like Google Analytics but you can at least find out basic stats about your page.

You can find more info about facebook pages here

Well, I was trying to access Digg today and it’s not up.
Here is a screen shot I took.

Here is what it says on the site:

We’ll be back shortly.

Only two months away from the Internet Retailer conference in Chicago and I am already excited about it. I was informed by a good friend of mine who will also be attending this event that I am featured on their website here: IRCE 2008 Conference and Exhibition

screenshot from the IRCE website

photo of me sitting at the IRCE 2007 event

I am the one in the blue shirt on the front row. The two individuals on my left are from American Micro Industries and the lady on my right is from Sigma Micro LLC.

The IRCE 2008 event is June 9th-12th and if you have not yet signed up to go you should do it now. It is an event you do not want to miss.

I just returned from the Catalyst conference sponsored by ChannelAdviser, held in Pinehurst NC at the Carolina Hotel. I think the event was a great success and I feel as though I have not only learned many new things but also made many new connections with other fellow e-retail marketers like myself.

One of my favorite sessions was when Vince Monical, director of commerce and analytics, at Google spoke.
He spoke about many of the new tools that Google has and then he told everyone about all the secrets about how google does search algorithms (yeah right!) … ok but he did show some things that I had not seen before on google’s website… stuff like Google Labs and how you can use it to see search trends. If you have not tried this before and you do SEO or PPC you really should try it.
Here is a cool slide he showed in his PowerPoint presentation:

Another great session was the “Live! From the Consumer” panel of teens and adults that shared their online usage habits.

I had the opportunity to meet some incredible people at this event. Here are just a few of the individuals I met and their websites:
David Dang - President and CEO of BananaToys.com
Dan Foster - Enterprise Sales Executive at ChannelAdvisor.com
Noah Boswell - Internet Marketing Manager - LooktotheRight.com
Emma Cumming - Director at GolfClubWarehouse.com.au
Jeff Mitchell - search marketing specialist at RockBottomGolf.com