Category: business

8 August 2008

PhoneBoy’s Rule on Press Embargos

Filed under: blogging, business - 08 Aug 2008

Jeff Pulver had an interesting post about embargoed press releases being sent unsolicited to bloggers. The general point he raised was: don’t send unsolicited embargoed information to him. The comments on this post helped …

27 July 2008

A Few Less Blogs To Tend To

Filed under: blogging, business - 27 Jul 2008

I wasn’t planning to post at all during my vacation, but I felt this needed to be posted, especially since I mentioned this on Twitter, et. al.

As of now, Creative Weblogging and I have parted ways. This means I am …

22 July 2008

Coming To Terms With Disclosure

Filed under: blogging, business - 22 Jul 2008

Pat Phelan followed a story about video blogger Sarah Austin, who was getting paid by Flixwagon and there was no disclosure about this fact anywhere. There was nothing in the contracts that forbid disclosure, but she did not want …

28 June 2008

Making Your Customers Happy

Filed under: business, telecom, voip - 28 Jun 2008

I was working on a post about voice mashups that you will hopefully see published soon. As part of that article, I was going to use this little nugget about Sitofono, a click to call …

3 May 2008

$4 A Gallon Gas: The Gas Pump Version of Y2K

Filed under: business - 03 May 2008

U.S. service station (1950s)Image via Wikipedia

There’s a story in the Seattle PI about how some rural gas stations in Washington State are …

30 April 2008

IfByPhone: Connecting SMBs With Customers

Filed under: business, telecom, voip - 30 Apr 2008

IfByPhone provides a number of different tools that businesses can use to help them bring in more sales. They provide services such as: “smart” click-to-call, …

29 April 2008

Jajah Takes Over Yahoo’s Telephony Services

Filed under: business, telecom, voip - 29 Apr 2008

Jajah WebImage via Wikipedia

In what looks like a similar arrangement to what Jangl did with Jajah a while ago, Jajah scores

24 April 2008

Jeff Pulver Resigns From PulverMedia

Filed under: business, people, voip - 24 Apr 2008

In what had to have been one of the more difficult decisions he’s had to make, Jeff Pulver announced that he resigned from the Board of Directors at PulverMedia, …

Are Bloggers Getting More Popular With Companies?

Filed under: blogging, business - 24 Apr 2008

I have to say, I’m with Garrett Smith: I must be getting more popular. I, too, have seen a marked increase in the amount of press releases and “proposals” to look at …

23 April 2008

Tungle Is Meeting Scheduling Magic

Filed under: business, software - 23 Apr 2008

Lately, I’ve been using Tungle to make it easier for PR agencies to schedule briefings with me. It has cut down substantially on the amount of email. In some case, I don’t even get an email until a briefing is …

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