Reputation Management by Kurt

June 25, 2008

A buddy of mine, Kurt Krejny, wrote a really good article for Marketing Pilgrim on reputation management and how to pounce on negative search engine results that could hurt your or your companies reputation. He gives a lot of great information especially on tracking reputation online. These strategies can be used for both personal and [...]

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Verizon Wireless Finally Buys Alltel Wireless!

June 5, 2008

Wow… Can you hear me now Chad? Finally! There has been speculation for years about the merger between Verizon and Alltel! I use to work for both companies, first Alltel (they stole my identity to make Chad, see below!) then Verizon. I really like both of them. I love the wireless industry, the phones, the [...]

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Yahoo goes naked for CSS Naked Day

April 9, 2008

Today is CSS Naked Day. The goal is to help promote Web Standards like html and xhtml by getting rid of your style sheet. In support of this, it looks like Yahoo has gone naked in their search engine results! Also baring it all is The Karcher Group! Here is more information on CSS Naked [...]

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Why I Like T-Mobile and Sprint Together

March 9, 2008

So far, I’m not seeing a lot of love for a rumored Sprint and TMobile deal. Om Malik over at Gigaom says “Just say no…Now”. And thats pretty much the theme most bloggers are taking. I think it could be a real powerful deal. Everyone knows Sprint really jacked up the Nextel deal. Walkie talkies [...]

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Shoemoney and Sullivan Got Me Thinking….

January 24, 2008

I read Shoemoney’s post within this last week and I honesty didn’t get into the debate about 95% of SEO’s being “the used car salesmen” of search engine marketing (SEM). But then yesterday his podcast with Danny Sullivan about 95% of SEO’s being “shady” and it really got me thinking about the real definition of [...]

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Google Universal Search Putting Me Up For Sale?

December 17, 2007

I have been trying some things out with my own reputation management for the last few months. Yesterday I was looking something up and I decided to see where I ranked. I went to Google as usual, typed in my name, Corey Hammond, and here is what I got: I wasn’t expecting this to happen [...]

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Facebook Status Sheds the “Is”

December 13, 2007

I was updating my Facebook status this morning at noticed that I am no longer required to use the “is” in my status!! I have a screen shot. It looks like it auto defaults the “is” in the status, but it lets you edit it out! Its not a huge thing by any means, but [...]

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Some More Facebook Advertising Sightings

December 9, 2007

I was on Facebook today, just checking things out when I noticed this ad on the left side bar. Since Facebook has been in the news lately for their advertising platform, I have been watching for any changes that I see. This ad had the picture and name for a friend of mine, kind of [...]

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Facebook’s Ad Targeting Sucks

November 18, 2007

I’m kind of offended by Facebook’s “Ad Targeting”. Here is the picture I got from my profile. First, my religion is Mormon, political views are Conservative…so, how on earth is this suppose to target me?! Also, I don’t have anything in my profile that would make them think that this is an appropriate ad for [...]

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Ambient’s Audeo-Taking Thoughts To Speech

October 1, 2007

Kristen Nicole from Mashable did a piece called “Speak Outloud without Opening Your Mouth”. Wow….What a sweet technology! I checked out Ambient’s website to get some more information on their product the call Audeo. The company is founded by 2 engineers Michael Callahan and Thomas Coleman. Check this out! Pretty cool huh? It will be [...]

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