My Last Radio Home is Back in the News Business

If you’ll excuse a self-serving post about Richmond radio…
I used to work in radio and television news. My last job in journalism was as news director of All News 990, WVNZ, an AM 24-hour news station in Richmond, Virginia. Less than a year after I left in mid-1999, they switched the format over [...]

Five First Steps for SEO and Social Media Beginners

I’m frequently asked to look at a website and evaluate it for usability, SEO, search engine optimization public relations (SEO PR), and social media optimization (SMO). At times, I’m asked, “What should I fix first?” So, I thought I’d put those first steps down in a blog post. I think these are [...]

A new look for the Media Relations and SEO PR Blog

If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice the new digs. I redesigned the blog last night. I didn’t really want to, but something strange happened with the theme I was using. In the end, I like this style better. It’s based on the Mistylook-101 theme, but I made quite a [...]

A Review of the Top Social Media & Web 2.0 Sites

I happened upon a great article by Jane Copland from SEOMoz the other day and was thrilled. It was written earlier this month, but since I hadn’t seen it, it’s new to me! The article does a rundown of 30 of the top social media / social bookmarking / Web 2.0 (pick a [...]

Are you … uh … Twittering?

Apparently there’s a new social media trend out there. I just heard about it (which probably puts me behind the times) and frankly I don’t fully understand it. Twitter allows users to create what I’d call a microblog, if your blog is the type that discusses what you had for breakfast. Twitterers, [...]