Does the Social Web Impact Human Behavior?
CNN’s online news site recently posted a poll that asked, “Are you tired of social networking?” When I had checked their results, it showed that 74% chose “YES.” Yet according to Inside Twitter by Alex Cheng, Mark Evans and Harshdeep Singh, after analyzing information disclosed on 11.5 million Twitters accounts, 72.5% of all users joined during the first five months of 2009. 85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update per day. Twitter is not the sole means of social...
Read MorePeople Paid to Post Misleading Information on the Internet Is a Global Practice
The practice of marketing companies paying armies of people to post misleading, false information on blogs, forums and social sites is expanding globally. While the practice can be used to post fake positive reviews for pay, for example, more often these paid posts are intended to destroy competition. I’ve been getting unsolicited calls from companies looking to hire people to do “SEO work” where the work consists of signing up for fake accounts and posting fake testimonials...
Read MoreDoes Technology or the Internet Make People LESS Connected?
I was recently witness to a debate at a local gathering that began when one man angrily claimed that people who live on their cell phones and laptops are “selfish” and “not connected with people”. His statement turned into a long discussion with people as young as a woman in her early 20′s to a gentleman in his 70′s speaking their opinions. Interestingly, the youngest one in the bunch was the most reasonable. She agreed that many behaviors are impolite....
Read MoreMaking an Impression on the Internet
There was a line once from a TV commercial that went, “If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper.” Such a method may not work on the Internet. Save Forums I was curious to find where the new generation of search engine marketers and website designers are these days. I also wanted to know if the talented and skilled among the new folks were helping out the industry by passing along accurate information. I asked because this was how we used to do things. Chat...
Read MoreInternet Marketing Awards and Contests Do Not Cover Entire Industry
Being recognized by one’s peers can be a happy moment. It’s far better than being ignored. But what happens when your name appears on a winner’s list and you don’t know why it got there? What about awards lists that name people you know don’t deserve to be there or there are exceptional people who were left off the list? I wrote about a contest in December that didn’t make sense to me. With today’s winners announcement for that contest came a viable...
Read MoreHow Do You Retire When You Work on the Internet?
Some of you may remember the JimWorld forums from the 1990′s. The owner and founder, Jim Wilson, passed away in 2003. When Jim Wilson passed on, his moderators and staff tried to keep his work alive. Today, the SearchEngineForums live on. Some of the staff from Jim’s forums, and other SEO/web dev forums, are now Admins and Moderators for Cre8asiteforums, which I founded in 1998. As I face more changes in the next few months for Cre8asiteforums, I do what I do several times a...
Read MoreMaybe It’s Push Back Time for the Internet
Some days it feels best to yank the plug from the wall. When I hear about teens killing themselves on web cams, parents murdering their children for using social sites and adults pretending to be kids in an effort to torment young people online, I want to scream. And so today, there is word that fake net personas may become illegal. I work on the Internet and I know its insane. I’ve received hate email and death threats. I’ve had comments come in that are vile, ruthless strings of...
Read MoreDo You Have an Earth Friendly Site?
Meet Darryl Heron, who took advantage of our relaxing promotion rules and wrote an excellent piece on Earth day. It’s been 31 years since the first Earth Day. Are you involved?
Read MoreCre8asiteforums Celebrates With Earth Week
I’m very excited to point you to Cre8 Green Week. “We’ll be celebrating Earth Day, April 22nd, with a week-long “green” focus. The most unusual facet will be that we’re temporarily loosening some of our usually strict policies about self promotion. We want to make it easier for the community to come in and share about how their projects inspire awareness of our environment and sustainable use of resources.” Logo design: Risa Borsykowsky of Rb3Webdesign.com Cre8Green...
Read MoreUsability – So Easy, Even a Caveman Could Learn It
For those who get a kick out of a forums that has never taken itself seriously, stop on by before we get boring again. Missed our antics? View the visual history in April Fools 2008 at...
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