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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
WKRN’s GM announces his departure via his blog
Mike Sechrist, general manager of Nashville’s ABC-affiliate and champion of the station’s aggressive adaptation of blogging, outreach to bloggers, and approaches to news-gathering that put video camcorders in the hands of reporters, has announced he is departing the station on … Continue reading
MetroCenter Greenway photos and map
Over the weekend, I added a MetroCenter Greenway map and photo set to my collection of Nashville Greenway maps. Related links: Earlier rexblog post explaining the project. Nashville Greenways Flickr Group (please join) Completed Maps MetroCenter Greenway Richland Creek Greenway … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, photography
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links for 2007-04-30
Special treatment for Wikia and some other wikis | TechCrunch.com Wikis included on a white list are granted outbound links that do not contain the “nofollow†tag. (tags: search wikipedia)
Everything old is New® again
Dan Farber points to a promotional page about a $279 Forrester report called, “Social Technographics® Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy.” The report (which I don’t plan on purchasing) reminds me of Ross Mayfield’s blog … Continue reading
Too much bad news is boring
This week’s episode of the public radio program “To the Best of our Knowledge” (detail and streaming available here) focuses on “lessons in optimism and the science of happiness.” Against a backdrop of “global fatalism” and our “addiction to the … Continue reading
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links for 2007-04-29
The Big Shots Of Blogdom | BusinessWeek Quote: “It was in tech…that early blog adopters first cottoned to this hyper-niched, hyperlinked model. Among the most closely followed blogs are Arrington’s TechCrunch, Rafat Ali’s paidContent, and Om Malik’s GigaOM. (tags: blogging)
links for 2007-04-28
Don’t stamp out brainy magazines | Boston Globe An editorial about the upcoming postal rate increase. (tags: magazines)
Kudos to Rafat Ali & Co.
For many years, I have been saying that Rafat Ali’s PaidContent.org (and the company, ContentNext) will be the first business-to-business media empire that started on a blog. I’ve cheered Rafat and PaidContent.org editor Staci Kramer for doing so many things … Continue reading
Why my blog won’t be changing its URL
Tomorrow (Friday, April 27), whoever owns the URL Rex.com will be selling it for at least $395,000 . There are plenty of potential buyers as several companies around the world have that name: an airlines , a healthcare company , … Continue reading
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econSM, session 3: Social Media Meets Hollywood
[econSM photoset on Flickr] Topic: As broadband inches toward ubiquity and movie downloads are no longer limited to early adopters, the entrenched players are having to play catch-up. The DVD and cable release windows have become tremendously compressed over the … Continue reading
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econSM, #2: Social Media Meets Marketing
Topic: Never has there been a medium in which marketing and advertising could be so closely measured (or manipulated). Some advertisers are entering the world of social media on tiptoes, hoping to retain control in an era of no control; … Continue reading
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econSM #1: The Social Media C-Level Panel
[See: econSM photo set on Flickr] Topic: The state of social media with key executives at leading companies: all of them startups, but all of them around long enough to be maturing in enteresting ways. We’ll look into threat to … Continue reading
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Dear Heather Green, Don’t fall into the reporter-math trap
Heather, you know I am one of your biggest fans. When I talk about magazine writers who know how to use a blog with finesse, you are my go-to example. So please don’t take this personally. However, when you start … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-26
To girls, ‘Sassy’ meant something more | NPR In the new book, How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, the co-authors detail the rise and fall of the magazine and argue … Continue reading
