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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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YoungEntrepreneur.com: Top Ten Company-Founder Blogs. Nashville Technology Council: Social Media/Blogger of the Year (2009).
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"When it comes to discussing what the future holds, Rex Hammock is one of the guys you want to speak to."
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"It is not surprising that the 'Rex Brand' of beef extract, canned meats and similar products are known throughout the civilized world."
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Category Archives: media
How to make sure I drop everything and blog about your new book
As one of the 12 readers of this blog, your attention is so coveted by marketers and authors, rarely a day goes by without me receiving some type of pitch to write for you a blog post about something the … Continue reading
Posted in blogging & bloggers, books, media
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Sometimes, a ‘wisdom of crowds algorithm’ needs the wisdom of a lone editor
The website of the Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, has a feature most news sites have, a leader board that ranks the popularity of articles on the site. The WSJ.com ranks “Most Popular” by articles Read, Emailed, and Commented on. It … Continue reading
Posted in content, internet, media, statistics
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Web companies discover a century-old corporate media tradition that’s always new
An article by Brian Stelter in today’s New York Times (temporary non-punitive URL: http://nyti.ms/xmYt1L) reports that Tumblr is hiring editors and writers to cover itself.* Quote from the executive editor Tumblr has hired: “Basically, if Tumblr were a city of … Continue reading
Posted in Content Marketing, Custom Media, marketing, media, publishing
Tagged Brian Stelter, New York Times, Tumblr
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The frightening future of the entertainment industry
In light of last week’s posts about the entertainment industry’s effort to enact the legislation called SOPA (here and here), I saw a couple of items early this morning that reminded me that much of the reason that industry wants to out-legislate … Continue reading
Posted in content, copyright, internet, media, video
Tagged Accenture, Intellectual property, Television, youtube
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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