When I created this blog, I had information such as this in mind: “As consumers, we see over 3,156 images a day. We’re just not conscious of them,” says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst of the consumer research firm NPD Group. “Our subconscious records maybe 150, and only 30 or so reach our conscious behavior. […]
Author Archive | Sandi Solow
What’s new?
I have been gone from this blog for too long, but I haven’t forgotten about it in the meantime. I’ve been sidetracked by a few projects and am planning to turn by attention back to this beloved blog. When I do, I am predicting that the majority of my posts will be related to email […]
Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs – May 15
I’ll be taking part in a Meetup event tomorrow, May 15, for Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs called “Ask the Experts.” The AWE group is intended for anyone interested in starting or running their own web-based businesses, especially those who are currently running successful web-based businesses and want to find, get to know, and learn from their […]
Look Kids, Big Ben, Parliament
Big BenOriginally uploaded by sandi_karchmer_solow In my first real foray into using Flickr to share photos after a vacation, two of my photos were located by a writer for NowPublic.com, a Canadian news sharing organization. I went to London over this past weekend and took some shots of Big Ben, which can be found at […]
Reaching an Audience of 8
Here’s a story that caught my eye: To woo academic recruits, college makes them stars Philadelphia Inquirer 03/27/2008 Gone are the days when a simple acceptance letter was enough. Now Wilkes University in Pennsylvania is courting eight high school seniors into matriculating at the school by making them rock stars through TV ads, commercials and […]
How not to follow-up to SoCon08
I went to SoCon08 this weekend and had a wonderful time. It was a fantastic gathering of people from a variety of backgrounds that all have an interest in social media. I was able to meet a lot of interesting folks, and see some old contacts, such as Josh Hallet, Dave Coustan and Grayson Daughters. […]
Don’t discount a 140-character message
We’ve been away far too long from this blog, but out of sight doesn’t mean out of mind. It was the holidays, New Year, yada yada Anyway, I found an interesting gem as one of the links of the day on Micropersuasion. A NY Times story on how some media outlets are using Twitter to […]
25th Georgia Blog Carnival
Welcome to the 25th installment of the Carnival! Consider this a virtual tour through the Georgia Blogosphere. With the help from Elementary History Teacher, this installment hits the interweb just ahead of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. As such, this carnival has a bit of a holiday flair to it. The Georgia Carnival will […]
Next Up: Blog Carnival
I’ll be hosting the next installment of the Georgia Blog Carnival, which goes up on this very blog sometime on Friday, December 21. This is a semi-regular (it’s more than semi- but I don’t know how often) compilation of blog posts written by Georgia bloggers or blog posts about Georgia. Here’s a link to the […]
Per-plaxo-ing
I dug through my gmail inbox and found an exchange I had with a friend in 2005 about using Plaxo as a CMS. At the time I was not able to give this friend a good recommendation for Plaxo based upon the comments of another friend. Our conversation died at that point and and so […]