Free Classes : Hands On Small Business, Brought To You By Kirtsy And Microsoft Office Live

I’ve been up to a great deal which I will update you all on soon! One of the most exciting of these activities is an upcoming series of free classes I will be teaching in Atlanta called Hands On Small Business, sponsored by Kirtsy and Microsoft Office Live. Here is the schedule of Atlanta classes [...]

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TweetDeck Fail — Case-Specific Search

I searched for myself (@tessa) on TweetDeck in a column adjacent to my “Mentions” tab and noticed that the list of tweets generated by the search was inconsistent between columns. The search tab only showed tweets that mentioned @tessa (lowercase “t”) and not the tweets that mentioned @Tessa (uppercase “t”). Beware for those of you [...]

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Blog Formatting 101: Adjust Where Appropriate

This afternoon I clicked on a link from R.E.M.’s Twitter and it brought me to an article on The Huffington Post about some music exclusives, including R.E.M. (alas why I clicked on the link). Now there comes a time in every blogger’s life where you have to make a few decisions. Have I outgrown my [...]

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Gmail Fail Whale

Don’t question the speed of the internet. In response to Gmail going down about half an hour ago: (Found on Tumblr)

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Noteworthy Social Media Reads

Stumbled across this interesting blog post: The Hierarchy Of Tweets – Analyzing The Psychology Of Twitter Alex Bogusky, Chairman of advertising powerhouse CP+B (Crispin Porter + Bogusky), has officially entered the world of blogging. His first blog post is being hosted on a popular new blogging platform, Posterous, similar to competitor Tumblr. And while Crispin [...]

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Social Media Club Atlanta August Tweetup

I’m back in Atlanta after three weeks in New York for some conferencing and work! I may have mentioned before that I co-founded Social Media Club Atlanta? Well tonight, in partnership with PR Camp Atlanta, Social Media Club Atlanta is hosting a tweetup at the new WaterHaven in Midtown’s Technology Square. Complimentary appetizers and cash [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Rely On Tech Bloggers

Don’t always trust tech bloggers, even on reputable sites, because some of them just don’t know what they’re talking about. This morning I found this article on Silicon Alley Insider via Atlanta startup chick, Jen Bonnett on Twitter arguing that URL shortening services are unreliable and should be avoided, in response to the URL shortener [...]

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Growing Blog Traffic — On The Right Path

Over the past year I have been experimenting with how to grow Drive A Faster Car‘s traffic at a more aggressive rate. The blog already has great SEO in place, regular content, good history and structure and a healthy quantity of inbound links. I have brought in additional writers, widened the scope of content and [...]

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