MyRetailRoanoke.com launched yesterday with the goal of aggressively seeking and attracting retailers to Roanoke, Virginia. The City of Roanoke, with the efforts of Stuart Mease, have done an excellent job recently of implementing a Internet based strategic marketing plan to promote the region’s opportunities and economic development efforts. From blogging to MySpace to videos on […]
Entrepreneur Resource List
Andy Forbes has compiled (and regularly updates) a great list of entrepreneur resources (PDF). The list is geared towards the Washington DC region, but there is a wealth of information here that goes beyond the area. The list has been generated with input from the community, specifically from the Netpreneur mailing list (another great resource). Disclaimer: EvolvePoint is listed.
Tips for Publishing RSS feeds – Part 3
In my first two posts in this series, I discussed four different tips for publishing RSS feeds. If you missed either of the last two parts, you can find them here: part 1, part 2. Let’s continue on with the next three feed publishing tips. 5. Make your feedâ??s title and description meaningful This tip […]
SXSW Interactive panel accepted and finalized
Back in September, I wrote about my panel proposal for the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival. I’m pleased to announce my panel “Using RSS for Marketing” was accepted last month. Now that the panel is set with a time and some great speakers, I decided to provide the details for those interested in attending SXSW this […]
Remote data backup service review
My sister called me last night asking for help locating some possibly deleted files on her laptop. As we went through the process of locating these possibly permanently lost files, we had a brief discussion about backup options and how to prevent this in the future. I mentioned a service I use called Mozy that has been […]
GotAPI is a must-have development resource
If you’re doing any kind of development, you should probably bookmark this site – gotAPI.com I stumbled on the site a while back, bookmarked it, but never though of it again. Then I read this post on Ajaxian and took another look. Billing itself as “the most comprehensive API collection on the web”, I’d have […]
Feed publishing best practices with a technical perspective
Nial Kennedy has an excellent post on feed publishing best practices. Nial’s more technical article on feed publishing makes an excellent companion to my general purpose series on tips for publishing RSS feeds. He covers RSS versus Atom, the different namespaces, types of parsers, and ping just to name a few of the subjects.
Tips for Publishing RSS feeds – Part 2
This is the second post in my Tips for Publishing RSS feeds series. If you missed the first part, you can find it here. Today, let’s just jump right into publishing tips 2, 3, and 4. As always, feel free to comment and add your thoughts on these tips. Also, for the sake of clarity, when I […]
Google CEO gives $2 million to Virginia Tech
The Roanoke Times reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has given Virginia Tech a $2 million gift to the College of Engineering. Apparently, Schmidt grew up in Blacksburg and was the son of a professor. The longer I live here, the more successful former residents and alumni I read about. Schmidt, who received master’s and […]
This time I had a legitimate excuse
Sorry for the pause in posting, but I had a good excuse this time – I got married and was on honeymoon the last week. With all the stress of wedding planning and a short honeymoon with no Internet access over, I can get back to writing. I’ll be posting some pictures at a separate […]