Interesting results from a recent survey by Tessa Stowe of Australia’s Sales Conversation. She wrote:
I recently did a survey on whether people like audio playing automatically on web pages or not.
Of the 81 people who responded:
80.2% (65) said they did not like automatic audio 13.6% (11) said they did like automatic audio [...]

Matt, from The Best Blogs, had a helpful comment regarding our recent nudge towards mega-lists of blog directories. (Thanks, Matt!)
He wrote: “Beware of FREE directories! They can result in a TON OF SPAM and other issues. So here is a better one. http://www.thebestblogs.org It is all SEO optimized, but there are no hidden costs.
Cool!

My blog guru, the great Andy Wibbels, author of Blog Wild, had some tweaks and suggestions to a recent post I did on preferred plug ins on Word Press.

Here’s what he likes for analytics.
Here’s a ping generator for future posts.
Spam-prevention software he uses.
Software that removes curly quotes which can break feeds etc
All [...]

My good buddy and partner, Andrea Lee, with whom I have the pleasure of sharing the Multiple Streams Commitment Club, has a cool new blog she just started called Made in Taiwan. It’s all about her experiences as a Taiwanese-Canadian and it makes for a fun, cozy, quite interesting read. Check it out.
By the [...]

I don’t usually plug untested VA sources, but I’m moved to pass this tip along — http://www.backpage.com is a free Classified source in many local cities. (Not my nearest city, Burlington, VT … but hey, a lot of cities are listed there.)

The tip I got from Sandra Schrift is that you can find supplemental VA/web [...]

Sigh. For years now we’ve relied on the erstwhile www.ezinecheck.com to scan our text before we send it in bulk emails, ezines, etc.. And … well … this wonderful free source just isn’t there anymore.

Anyone know what happened to them?

Meanwhile, the gap is being filled by the industrious folks at SiteSell. You can find a [...]

OK … it’s time for The Uber Joy Festival! When I put my very popular Joy Facilitator’s Training on sale.

This is for anyone who dreams of creating, booking, filling and leading your own creativity workshops. Or who works with creativity issues .. and needs tools that can nudge clients to breakthroughs.

For many years now, [...]

OK, blog wonks and others. It’s time to dig into the vast possibilities of the Word Press platform for blogs. This (potentially) free interface comes with many reasons to love it – enough that we’re actually turning this blog from Typepad over to Wordpress this week. So my blogmaster, Peggy, asked me to identify which [...]

It’s seen as a mystery to many, but I say there’s a real science to it. You’re goal as a platform builder is to be universally known in the staff meeting rooms of all the magazines in your genre. (Well, OK, that’s only one of many goals … but it’s a good one.) So if [...]

OK … just to show you I walk my talk, Travis Greenlee and I have created a funny viral video to promote our Fill Your Groups Now Home Study Course. I’ll be tracking it’s success, traffic etc in my blog over the next few months … and in the meanwhile, you might want to tune [...]