How to increase traffic to your blog

Post an article that catches attention of a popular blogger like Adam Gartenberg.
Make it compelling enough for Adam to include it — with a link — on his own blog.
Watch the traffic grow.
Thank Adam.

Now I just have to find a way to write a post compelling enough for Ed Brill. Wonder if saying nice [...]

Gotta love Google Reader

Where else would you see something like this…

Mind you, the ad still doesn’t take you anywhere all that exciting.

DownThemAll — a great Firefox add-on

Somebody pointed me to this Firefox add-on called DownThemAll!  I don’t know how exactly it works (something about splitting files) but it makes your downloads really — and I mean REALLY — fast.
Once installed, it becomes a radio button in your Download dialog box inside of Firefox, allowing you to choose to use the traditional [...]

Lotus SameTime in a Microsoft shop? You better believe it

I heard IBM say it, but I did not wholly believe it.  SameTime is not only for shops that run Lotus Notes.  It is targeted at everyone else, too.
Today I had actually participated in a conversation with a company that is looking to deploy SameTime on top of Outlook, Exchange and Active Directory.  What drew [...]

It’s a whole different non-profit world

Working almost most of my life in the for-profit sector, it is a very different experience being engaged on a project in the non-profit world. The difference becomes even more obvious when the project itself is being done through a network of volunteers, such as the Taproot Foundation. The project scope, the objectives, the deliverables [...]

Should I control when my commercial is played?

Not sure why I’m on this marketing/advertising kick…  Perhaps, I’m spending too much time reading Seth Godin.  Perhaps, it’s my daughter’s addiction to TV shopping.
As a company, someone who had paid for 30 seconds of airtime, how much control do I have over when my commercial is being played?  I’m not talking about a specific [...]

Lotus advertising — not for the masses

Using Google’s Reader to read top stories from Wired, I spot this add in the middle of an article block…

Heehaw! Hurrah! I’m tickled pink — a Lotus Notes advertisement in the broad day (or rather desk lamp) light. Sorry, Ed, apologize for my comments. See, Nathan, Lotus marketing is hard [...]

Project Manager or Project Leader?

In the world of IT consulting, there are few Project Managers, but, unfortunately, there are also few Project Leaders. When it comes to being on an engagement, Project Leadership is what separates a coder from a consultant. There are many brilliant coders: guys and gals who write phenomenal code, develop amazing programs and [...]

PSC at LCTY Chicago

I’m excited to yet once again represent the PSC Group at a Lotusphere Comes To You event in Chicago.   The event will be held on Tuesday, March 18th at the InterContinental hotel in Chicago located at 505 N Michigan Avenue.  This is a free event, but registration is required.  With all the excitement surrounding [...]

IBM should sell Lotus?!

Ouch!  IBM should sell Lotus because it can’t build off it’s “ridiculously tiny market share of Lotus customers”?  An interesting thought process — IBM should get out of the Web 2.0 game just because it has too much money to invest in developing social tools for the enterprise. (I’m obviously oversimplifying.)  And here I thought [...]