http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog Articles, Tips, Advice, News and Specials from TFC Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:57:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter this, Tweet that. Follow me, follow you. Still confused about Twitter? The John Denver song describes it well: Follow me where I go what I do and who I know Make it part of you to be a part of me Follow me up and down all the way and all around Take ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/10/twitter-in-a-nutshell/ Top businesses and organizations have certain characteristics that make them strong and able to change and grow. Do you know what they are? Topping the list is a healthy culture. How healthy is your organisation's culture? Take this free organisational culture survey, presented by the Australian Future Search Network. You'll get ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/09/organizational-culture-survey/ Ah, music to my ears. A sight for sore eyes. And other worn-out metaphors that I might get in trouble for using. If I could give every single business writer, guru or executive one thing to read every morning before work, it'd be this essay by George Orwell: Politics and the ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/08/lazy-words-that-should-be-banned/ Check out (no pun intended) Larry Chase's list of best e-commerce blogs. http://www.wdfm.com/publish/e-commerce_blogs/ Sign up for the free Web Digest for Marketers while you're at it. Great stuff! http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/07/best-e-commerce-blogs/ Do you use WordPress? Do you want to optimize your blog (or Web site built using WordPress) for search engines? See Michael Gray's killer list of SEO plugins. Love the Gray Wolf logo! http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/05/top-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/ To make a profit, of course! Oh wait. Maybe it’s to provide the best product or service the world has ever seen. Hmm. How about, to build a place where collective missions can flourish? According to business success strategist Philip Humbert, it’s none of those. Read on. Strictly Business: The Purpose of ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/04/the-purpose-of-business-is/ A Web site is a means for communication. An effective Web site does what you want it to do. For example, you may want your site to communicate a message to your target audience, sell your products, or teach, entertain or inspire. An effective Web site follows design, content and usability ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/04/be-good-to-your-web-site-visitors/ E-junkie is a super-easy to use, inexpensive shopping cart. It’s just what I was looking for to manage sales of the Shop ‘n Dine Anthem Discount Card. The PayPal shopping cart is easy to use as well, but its features are sparse. Very sparse. I wanted an e-commerce solution that has ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/04/super-easy-shopping-cart/ I speak American English with a rhotic accent. And with a hint of an Ohio Valley dialect. Listen to the Ohio Five recording here to get an idea. I love trying to figure out what part of the United States people are from based on their dialect or accent. I also ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/03/why-%c2%bfpor-que-pourquoi-perche/ Don't worry. "Social media" is simply a term for people connecting with people using the Internet. The Internet has always been a social medium. However, in the past few years the technology and methods for connecting with others have been rapidly growing and evolving. Almost everyone has heard about social networking ... http://www.talkingfeathercommunications.com/blog/2008/02/dont-know-nuthin-about-social-media/