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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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Hints for creating small business and non-profit Twitter Lists
[Notes: You can view all my "Thoughts on Twitter" posts displayed chronologically here: http://www.RexBlog.com/thoughts-on-twitter.] During the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a few minutes each day creating Twitter Lists as part of a set of directories on SmallBusiness.com (a … Continue reading
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You don’t get Wikipedia, so stop trying
For years, I’ve been reading that Wikipedia is dying. (Of course, on the internet, anything successful attracts an “is dying” movement.) Today, there’s a Wall Street Journal article that does a half-way decent job of glancing at the history of … Continue reading
Thoughts on Twitter #8: You’re going to love Twitter Lists, unless you don’t
[Notes: You can view all my "Thoughts on Twitter" posts displayed chronologically here: http://www.RexBlog.com/thoughts-on-twitter.] If you read this blog closely, you know I’ve been whining for a “lists” or “groups” feature on Twitter since, well, about the time I started … Continue reading
An important lesson in business success: Use your product
[Note: I am going to start doing more small business related posts here. When I do, I'm going to add relevant links to the wiki-model resource SmallBusiness.com, which, as a matter of disclosure, is owned by Hammock Inc.] TechCrunch posted … Continue reading
Help for Joe the Plumber
Last night on Twitter, much fun erupted when the name Joe the Plumber started being used repeatedly during the Presidential debate. While first referencing one individual, the tag soon came to represent all small business owners and those who’d like … Continue reading
Tagged SmallBusiness.com
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I hope Google Sites will help people “get” wikis
BusinessWeek’s Rob Hof is reporting that Google is launching a new “app” tonight called Google Sites. As I write this, it is not yet live, however, according to Rob, it uses the “Jotspot” wiki platform Google acquired in late 2006. … Continue reading
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
It’s not just the URL, Business.com, that’s ‘on the block’ for $300-$400 million
From today’s Wall Street Journal: “The company that grew out of business.com — a search engine used by businesses to find products and services — is now on the auction block, and could fetch anywhere between $300 million and $400 … Continue reading
Youthful entrepreneurship in America is a modern notion that is three-hundred years old
Recently on this blog, I dipped my toe into a debate about the age of individuals who start and run businesses. My point then (and now) is that while intuitively convincing, the empirical evidence related to business creation and success … Continue reading
Join the SmallBusiness.com group on Facebook
Do you have a FaceBook account? I’ve just set up a SmallBusiness.com group there and encourage small business owners and managers (current and future) to join it. For the record, the always trend-setting Marianne Richmond was the first person to … Continue reading
Nashville’s first pro-blogger resigns
(See note at bottom of this post) Brittney Gilbert, one of the nation’s first staff bloggers hired by a traditional media company, has just posted a resignation message on Nashville is Talking, the “hyperlocal†blog and “aggregator†site she hosts … Continue reading
Magazine wikis are Web 3.0
Yesterday, Dave Winer outlined some suggestions (hopes) for the next step in the evolution of the web, somewhat related to the long-envisioned “semantic web or Web 3.0” — and what Dave calls for discussion sake, Web 3.0. Building on the … Continue reading
It’s a 20¢ listing day on eBay
Passing along something that hit my SmallBusiness.com radar this morning: Today, eBay is having a one-day only 20¢ listing promotion (typically, fees range from 20¢ to as high as $4.80). From time to time, eBay runs these special 20¢ listing … Continue reading
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10 questions for Jimmy Wales
Time.com submitted questions from readers to Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales. One answer is similar to my reminder to anyone using Wikipedia (or, for that matter, other wiki-based resources like like SmallBusiness.com): “Wikipedia is a gateway to facts, not a source of … Continue reading
Shameless self-promotional post
Over the past week or so, Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends has asked me lots of great questions about SmallBusiness.com. She has just posted the interview. If you are interested in the creation of a giant wiki-model community, you … Continue reading
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