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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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Rexplanation: The internet isn’t just technology. It’s a place and people.
[Note: This post is a Rexplanation.] In my opinion, there are two ways people understand the internet. The first way is to understand the internet as something to use. The second way is to think of the internet as something you … Continue reading
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Introducing a new type of RexBlog post: Rexplanations
For a long time, as a service to the 12 readers of this blog, I’ve wanted to start using the label “Explanation” on certain types of expository RexBlog posts. That way, I can refer back to them whenever that topic … Continue reading
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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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Back to blogging basics
The other day, when I posted that venn diagram review of Moneyball, it generated lots of traffic, but it also generated an email from someone asking if I knew my blog have been hacked and tons of spam links were … Continue reading
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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
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No, you can’t contribute a guest post (unless you’ve at least read my blog)
First off, of the 8,357 posts that have appeared on this blog, I can recall only one guest post. I have nothing against guest posts. Indeed, last week, this guest post from Kathy Sierra on Hugh MacLeod’s blog reminded me … Continue reading
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The History of Media: Brands have been Publishers Since the 19th Century
[Note: This post is a Rexplanation.] Feel free to read-along, but this post was written especially for my blog and Twitter friend, Mathew Ingram, who posted an article on Gigaom this afternoon with the subject line, “The Future of Media: … Continue reading
What are those hashtags at the end of paragraphs?
[I've added a version of this post to the OFQ (occasionally asked questions) page of this blog. ] Recently, I added the “WinerLinks plugin” to the WordPress software I use to publish RexBlog. (Plugins are snippets of code that add … Continue reading
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Why do I blog? So people will meet in the comments, fall in love and get married
A few years ago, when a couple told me they first met one-another through comments they posted on this blog, I was dumbfounded for two reasons: 1. Because this is more a “personal” blog than a “topical” blog, the “community … Continue reading
A WordPress plugin for adding the Facebook Like button to your blog
[Note: This post is rated: Geek.] While I know in doing so, I’m supporting Facebook’s march towards turning the “social” part of the internet into a corporate-state, I nonetheless decided to add a Facebook “like” button to each post on … Continue reading
Technical note for those who read RexBlog posts via an RSS newsreader
If you have just received a blast of about three weeks of posts, I apologize. It means you’ve probably not received those posts during the past five weeks. I believe the issue that caused that to occur has been fixed. … Continue reading
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Not only am I a content marketer, this is a content marketing blog
As I noted last week — I’m on the “content marketing” bandwagon if content marketing is what marketers want to call what Hammock does. My friend Joe Pulizzi, the leading evangelist of the term content marketing and the head matchmaker … Continue reading
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9 things I’ve learned about magazines from blogging
As people who read this blog know, a regular topic I write about is the magazine industry. That should make sense, as Hammock Inc. publishes magazines for several associations and corporate clients. For their August issue, the business-to-business magazine Publishing … Continue reading
What was that all about?
Apparently, I hit the publish button on a post well before I was finished with it. So if you’re reading this in an RSS reader and there’s something that makes little sense right before it, when I get around to … Continue reading
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