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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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Category Archives: social media
Just because you can make money from something doesn’t mean you should, and other rules of the web
Here are a few things I’ve learned from 20 years of living online, developing or managing online things and using lots and lots of things others have developed. I’ve learned them by writing and by reading about those online things. … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, blogging & bloggers, internet, observation, social media
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@AmazonMP3s very smart use of Twitter during Superbowl XLVI
If it works like it’s supposed to, this post will be an embed from Storify.com as that service makes it a snap to repost tweets in a situation like this. If you see something below (it will take a few … Continue reading
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I’d like to influence you not to worry too much about online influence gamified metrics like Klout
There’s a story by Anita Wadhwani appearing today on Tennessean.com regarding the efforts of a company called Klout to create a measurement of someone’s influence online about a particular topic. As the company is backed by the influential (in ways … Continue reading
Posted in internet, Nashville, social media
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Chief Executive magazine spurs a RexBlog Sally Fields moment
So, excuse this interruption for some shameless self-promotion, but I’m honored (baffled a bit, yet honored) that this 11-year-old blog is included in the current issue of Chief Executive magazine, on a list their editors have selected as the Top … Continue reading
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How to use Twitter to become the leading GOP presidential candidate (among Democrats)
[Note: Because of its unique features that make adding tweets (and other sidebar media) to text a snap, I wrote this post at Storify.com and am displaying it here.] [View the story “How to use Twitter to become the most … Continue reading
Posted in humor, politics, twitter
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I’ve been Broganized
Thanks to superstar Chris Brogan for inviting me to join him the other day for a Skype interview about Google+, publishing, customer loyalty and what exactly the heck I do. It turns out, Chris is one of the 12 people … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Hammock Inc., marketing, publishing, rexblog, social media
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Google+ and the identity thing
I’m on the bandwagon of Marco Arment and Dave Winer when it comes to the need for people to own and control their online identity. Facebook.com/rexhammock is not something I own; I merely use it — but RexHammock.com and RexBlog.com … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, facebook, google, identity, internet, observation, social media, twitter
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Five Reasons Domains Are Still Important
This post, including the title, is my reaction to a blog post from Evan Williams, titled, Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important. Ironically, I agree with everything he writes, except one: the title. So this isn’t a negative reaction, … Continue reading
Posted in business, identity, internet, search, small business, twitter
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When back channels become front channels
Yesterday, I attended an annual day-long conference hosted by my friends at PaidContent.org. The format of the conference was what I call “talk show,” no presentations, but a series of groups and individuals who were interviewed in a conversational manner … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, media, observation, twitter
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Rebooting the News – Who is Rex, Edition
This morning, I spent an hour chatting with Dave Winer on Rebooting the News the weekly podcast he typically records with NYU Professor Jay Rosen. To me, getting invited to spend an hour with Dave Winer on a podcast is … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, blogging & bloggers, Content Marketing, facebook, Hammock Inc., internet, iPad, magazines, media, publishing, twitter, usability
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Google social search results are great (not creepy)
This isn’t a post for my tech and new media friends. Rather, it’s a post for my friends who do NOT obsessively follow developments related to the intersection of media, technology and marketing: in other words, nearly everyone I know … Continue reading
I’m sorry, Malcolm Gladwell (but you’re still wrong)
An amazing thing happened earlier this morning. My wife and I were having a conversation during which she commented in a rather oh-by-the-way fashion, “I thought you were a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell. So why did you attack him … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, observation, social media, twitter
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The Revolution will be Tweeted
Like there is a Greenwich Mean Time that determines precisely the correct time on which all correct times are based, there should be a standard by which we measure bad timing. I propose such timing be called Malcolm Gladwell Time. … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, google, observation, social media, twitter
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Kudzu will die before RSS does
[Note: I'm a bit dazed by some over-the-counter cold medicine, so I reserve the right to edit this post later if I wake up and determine I was impaired while writing it late Tuesday night.] It’s only four days into … Continue reading
Posted in observation, twitter
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Blog posts I didn’t write in 2010
[End of the Day by Pensiero, on Flickr; CC 2.0] In a notebook using the service/software Evernote, I collect ideas for possible blog posts. Rarely do these ideas make it into posts. They turn out to be just thoughts or … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, internet, iPad, ipod, kindle, observation, twitter
Tagged Creative Commons, E-book, Google Reader, IPad, ipod, National Public Radio, Sequoia Capital, United States
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