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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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The Hammock 20th Anniversary Guides to Content that Works
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Hammock Inc., the company that provides me the keyboard on which I type these blog posts. Since I don’t blog a lot about what we do … Continue reading
Hammock marks its 20th anniversary
This week is the 20th anniversary of Hammock, the company I named in honor of a rope-swing napping device hanging from some trees in my backyard (and not, as some have suggested, because it’s an eponym).* It started out being … Continue reading
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About that Windsor Chair I made last summer
. A digital version of how the article appears in the magazine. Some of the people who read this blog may remember that last July, I spent seven days in North Carolina making a Windsor chair. As I chronicled the … Continue reading
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Fan us on Facebook
The white-coat gang at Hammock Labs are playing with Facebook pages. If you’re a Facebookian (Facebooker?) and care to play along, please “fan” Hammock or SmallBusiness.com (or both). As the lab rats have already discovered there’s no button that says, … Continue reading
Overcome with Leopardness
As a follow-up to my post yesterday about our office OS X upgrade, I thought I’d share this photo of Hammock’s head hackololgist, Patrick Ragsdale, being attacked by roaming packs of Leopards this morning. You can read @MeaganG‘s post about … Continue reading
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Team Hammock spellers k-i-c-k a-s-s
I hate to sound braggadocious, but can’t help myself from giving a shout-out congratulations to the Hammock Publishing corporate spelling bee team for annihilating the competition in tonight’s 14th Annual Corporate Spelling Bee, benefiting the Nashville Adult Literacy Council. Fittingly, … Continue reading
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Hey, I know that office
There’s a nice story about ‘office environmental branding’ in today’s Tennessean that features Hammock Publishing‘s space. The online version of the story doesn’t include photos (later: oops, correction), so I created a Flickr set to accompany it. The work was … Continue reading
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Hey, I know that blogger
Don’t know how I missed Laura Creekmore’s major pub in today’s Tennessean. Besides moderating the East Nashville listserv and blogging about food, she’s head of Internetology at Hammock. From that photo on Tennessean.com, you can see she’s the one with … Continue reading
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Thunder finds a home: A blog story
Here’s a great story about how blogs work in mysterious ways. It’s about a dog named Thunder who needed a home and how a Nashville blogger “meat-up” back in December at which we were each encouraged to bring some pet … Continue reading
Dell reads the rexblog — and lots of others
Dell blogger Lionel Menchaca linked to my earlier response to Robert Scoble’s question about why Apple doesn’t get the negative PR Dell gets. Quote: “We’ve created a team to find customers needing assistance in the blogosphere, entered Second Life, recently … Continue reading
Former rexblog hackologist wins cool international business award
From one of his classmates (Lewis) comes a link to the news that Blair Stilwell was on a team of Vanderbilt Owen School of Management students who won the recent “International Case Competition” at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of … Continue reading
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Mr. Roboto blogs our annual office party
First, let me say emphatically, those were NOT stripper poles — they were stabilization poles of the type one finds on a subway car. It was a moving bus. They were for safety purposes. Okay, with that actionable item aside, … Continue reading
Five years of rexblog on one page
Last night, some really incredible folks gave me some extremely creative, fun and thoughtful items to commemorate Hammock Publishing’s 15th anniversary. One of the items relates to this blog and, frankly, it amazes me: A poster that chronicles the history … Continue reading
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Election prediction – Wisdom of crowds?
Before the returns start coming in, I wanted to post the average of all predictions made by Hammock Publishing employees regarding the party split during the next session of congress. Average Prediction (All employees) Senate: 50-50 House: Republicans-213, Democrats-221 My … Continue reading
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Happy Hammoween
The dresser-uppers (or is that dressers-upper?) at Hammock Publishing.
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