by Laura Creekmore | Mar 31, 2011 | Conferences/Events, Podcasting
Let me begin by saying I’m embarrassed that I don’t have a podcast. I registered a URL I intended to use to promote our podcast nearly a year ago. Summer Huggins did a lot of great prep work for it. I even talked to someone about being our first...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 28, 2011 | Conferences/Events, Video
Winston Hearn has been creating online video for several years and offered a basic tutorial Saturday at PodCamp Nashville 2011. Though I’ve done online video for a while, I’ve never really had any formal instruction, so I thought it would be nice to find...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 27, 2011 | Programming
A week ago, I started a computer class to learn Ruby on Rails to build web applications. I’m not currently planning any kind of startup, or even to become a programmer. I did think it would be really helpful to learn programming from the ground up, to learn the...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 25, 2011 | Content strategy, Marketing, Social media
Great post this week from well known author Mitch Joel, president of Twist Image in Toronto. He starts from the question of whether it’s better to have a great book or a great existing audience when you publish. But he morphs quickly into asking the same...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 24, 2011 | Writing
Ah, the Associated Press. Bless their hearts. Long the whipping boy of web business types [and deservedly so, for a years-long series of tone-deaf and business-stupid moves online], the AP has nonetheless retained its position as the stylebook of business and media....