Category: General

I stumbled across this article on big data and marketing.

In a nutshell, it says try stuff and measure what works. And AIDA is back in a big way.

Here’s a screenshot:

Too funny.

I like:

“also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in
your SEO optimization”

Blogging isn’t dead (yet).

Here are my slides from long ago:

Remember: Your economic situation isn’t everything.

It is the worst country when it comes to making friends (37th), and scores poorly among expats for social life (33rd), making local friends (32nd), entertainment (32nd), local work culture (30th) and learning the local language (32nd).

Expat explorer

Despite Twitter’s handling of third party apps and API changes, some tools are still around or re-emerging.

Noteworthy:

If you don’t know what a hashtag means, go to Tagdef.
http://tagdef.com/
Long time ago, Twitter client Brizzly used to do this.

I briefly clicked into Tagboard. It looks like a useful search tool.
http://tagboard.com/

I am quite excited about POSSE. I’ve added a plug-in called Hum to shorten URLs. And I activated the corresponding WordPress app for Twitter via Publicize. And that’s it. Voilà. My own personal tweet machine is up.

Advantages compared to publishing an RSS feed on Twitter? I guess it has a very similar end-effect to distributing a RSS feed via IFTTT or Twitterfeed. The URLS are shorter and I can define a shorter domain name if I want.

Next thing to explore is the Webmention plugin.

A couple of weeks ago, I got this idea to build a local SEO network for private use. Now I have a good idea how I’ll build it and still keep my sanity. Back to the future. I could set up a local-hosted WordPress site and then blast away. Reaching out to Linkedin, Twitter, G+ and Facebook. In a way, it’s very similar to good old RSS.

I am trying out the POSSE tools for WordPress.

I’m trying the POSSE tools for WordPress listed on Indie Web Projects.

POSSE stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

Yesterday morning, while waiting for green at the traffic light, a car pulled up next to me playing Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley very loudly.

Reggae sounds early in the morning. Made my day.