May 2007
Muggles to be able to Visit the Wizarding World of... →
Muggle fans of Harry Potter will be excited to know that Universal Studios has announced that they will be building a Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando! Universal plans to open the park in 2009!
Wired’s Jargon Watch on Online Analyst as Coined...
Online analyst n. Hired by companies like Coca-Cola and AT&T to monitor what’s being said about them on social networks and blogs, online analysts use the Internet as a vast unpaid focus group. Via New Media Strategies Career Page and New Media Sense by way of Wired’s Jargon Watch (more…) chris abraham, coca cola, Internet, Internet Culture, Internet strategy, Jargon Watch, new media, New...
Road Trip Driving Gelles to En Why See (NYC)
I am sitting next to Mr. David Gelles of Blog Vivant fame as he pilots my 530i up I-95 on our way towards moving him to the East Village for the summer. He is going to be a summer intern at Bloomberg, a pretty sweet gig. We’re listening to old Springsteen on route to the New Jersey Turn Pike. I am moblogging from my T40 laptop thanks to a T-Mobile data PC card via slowass GPRS. Mildly...
Road Trip Driving Gelles to En Why See (NYC)
I am sitting next to Mr. David Gelles of Blog Vivant fame as he pilots my 530i up I-95 on our way towards moving him to the East Village for the summer. He is going to be a summer intern at Bloomberg, a pretty sweet gig. We’re listening to old Springsteen on route to the New Jersey Turn Pike. I am moblogging from my T40 laptop thanks to a T-Mobile data PC card via slowass GPRS. Mildly...
News Feed Aggregation Solutions
A web-based news aggregation strategy is simple if the solution is Drupal, the solution I chose for both my personal and corporate website. There may be other super-easy solutions you may want to chose, but the solutions here are simple in Drupal. There are two of them: News Aggregator and Leech, one built-in module and the other a simple download; one offers a simple news aggregation solution,...
Chris Abraham: Beers with Emily at Ireland’s Four Courts in Arlington. (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: Watching a 7th Heaven rerun. Love TV + G-d! (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Master of 500 Hats: Top 5 (or 6) reasons PR... →
“this is not-quite-a-rebuttal-but-almost to Guy Kawasaki’s “Top 10 Reasons Why PR doesn’t Work”, which seems to paint the perspective of a PR firm primarily pointing the finger of blame or misunderstanding at their client.”
Joost Gets a $45 Million Boost →
Clandestine Blogging →
"Teen Tests Internet's Lewd Track Record:... →
High school pole vaulting champion Allison Stokke has been steamrolled by the wave of attention that has come her way after various Internet channels spread the 18 year old’s image to thousands of websites.
Chris Abraham: Getting my first sun in 2007 while catching up on real paper NT Time and the FT. I might burn. (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Teen Tests Internet's Lewd Track Record →
High school pole vaulting champion Allison Stokke has been steamrolled by the wave of attention that has come her way after various Internet channels spread the 18 year old’s image to thousands of websites.
Chris Abraham: @bronwen Thanks, my fave NORG (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: @bronwen Add me to your Facebook! (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: Good night Twitterland! (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: Going to sleep (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: Okay, I cannot sleep (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: I am using my n800 to Twitter (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: @kroosh I am pretty sure that Spike is a pretty common name for reptiles :) (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: @kroosh My Spike is a Four-Horned chameleon: http://tinyurl.com/2h3w6o (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: Reading up on News Aggregation in Drupal… (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: My chameleon and I are living separate lives but I am taking great care of Spike. (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
Chris Abraham: Watching “The Secret” with my mum. We’re visualizing and manifesting! (via Twitter / Chris Abraham)
All About Search Engine Optimization
I am very good at gaming Google and influence organic change on search engines. This is called Search Engine Optimization. None of my friends know what that means. Hopefully, this Wiki-love from Wikipedia will help you, my friends.
Search engine optimization (SEO) as a subset of search engine marketing seeks to improve the number and quality of visitors to a web site from “natural” (”organic” or...
Search Engine Reputation Management or SERM
Search Engine Reputation Management (or SERM) tactics are often employed by companies to proactively shield their brands from damaging content brought to light through search engine queries. (more…) brand protection, Online Brand Protection, Reputation Management, reputation management, Search, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Reputation Management, Search Engine Strategy, Search Engines,...
All About New Media Marketing
New Media Marketing is a relatively new concept utilized by businesses in developing an online community, which allows customer evangelists to congregate and extol the virtues of a particular brand. In most cases, the online community includes mechanisms such as blogs, podcasts, message boards, and product reviews, all of which contribute to a transparent forum to post praises, criticisms,...
All About Word-of-Mouth Marketing AKA Buzz...
Word-of-Mouth Marketing, or WOMM, also known as buzz marketing, is a term used in the marketing and advertising industry to describe activities that companies undertake to generate personal recommendations as well as referrals for brand names, products and services. (more…) behavioral response, buzz, Buzz Marketing, buzz promotions, buzz buzz, buzz marketing, gmail account, gmail google, highly...
All About Viral Marketing
Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can often be word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it can harness the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a...
All About Astroturfing
In politics and advertising, the term astroturfing describes formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the reference to the “AstroTurf” (artificial grass) is a metaphor to indicate “fake grassroots” support. (more…) artificial grass, astroturf, Astroturfing, corporations, democracy efforts, democrat texas,...
Vanity Advertising on PayPerPost is Addicting
I played around with a $100 credit that PayPerPost granted me to try out the service as an advertiser. “Cool,” I thought, “this is going to be fun.” I wrote my PayPerPost ad campaign blurb, “write About Chris Abraham’s Blog: Blog your very own opinion about my personal blog.” Amazingly egocentric, me. (more…) advertiser, Advertising, ad campaign, amazingly, because the medium is the message,...
Googlebombing John McCain
I am joining the MyDD and Dailykos campaign to Googlebomb Senator John McCain. Join me, won’t you? McCain, John McCain, Senator John McCain, McCain 2008, oh my! I hate hypocrites. dailykos, gaming Google, Google bomb, Google bombing, Google game, Google Gaming, Google juice, Googlebombing, hypocrites, John McCain, McCain, McCain 2008. Daily Kos, mydd, Senator John McCain, senator john mccain (via...
Interference Mishandled a Brilliant Opportunity
Come on, Interference CEO Sam Travis Ewen, this is just lame. Where is the walk behind the edgy, cool, hip, and shamelessness with which you and your firm, Interference, Inc, talk? (more…) Adult Swim, adult swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, aqua teen hunger, aqua teen hunger force, bad hair day, balls, bl ochman, Boston, brand protection, Branding, Branding Online, Buzz Marketing, Cartoon Network,...
New Media Strategies Was New Media Before New...
I spent nearly three-years living the life if an “NMSer.” It is where I got trained up in the art of new media strategy and new media marketing. I had an amazing experience working there and I am also happy to share the latest post-Meredith purchase in the form of a very nice article, Tracking Who’s Saying What About Whom: New Media Strategies’ ‘Online Analysts’ Scour the Web for Mentions of...
Online Communities are Real Communities of Real...
Do you think that people who play Second Life, World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, MMOGs, and MMORPGs are freaks? Do you consider message boards, forums, virtual realities, and virtual communities to be a waste of time, populated by losers? (more…) birds of a feather, blogger, brand promotion, Communities of Action, Communities of Circumstance, Communities of Interest, Communities of Position,...
When You Blog You Are Not In The Pub Repost
Just to be clear, when you blog it is not the same as taking the piss out of your boss and the job down at the pub. Blogging is public and universally-accessible so you will be discovered and probably fired if you bite the hand that feeds you. (more…) bite the hand, bite the hand that feeds, blog, Blogger Ethics, bloggers, blogging, blogs, boss, brit, business intelligence, crap job, down at the...
SonicWALL Doesn’t Want You to See My Long Tail
censor, censorship, Chris Abraham is a pornographer, Content Filtering, net nanny, porn, porno, pornographer, pornography, pr0n, SonicWall (via Marketing Conversation)
New Media, Social Media and CGM for Historians
While history requires statefulness, the very nature of the Internet is statelessness. State requires libraries, checks and balances, error-correction, and memory. While there are indeed ways to “look back” into the history of the Internet, the emergent, collaborative nature of the Internet makes the corruption and influence of online content impossible to prevent and improbably to police. The...
Internet Forensics Helps You Find and Be Found...
There is an art and science to pulling the covers back on the what’s really going on in the blogosphere. (more…) art and science, blogosphere, cease and desist, cease and desist letters, con artists, email, floggers, forensic tools, Internet Forensics, internet tracking, mail header, marketers, message web, political operatives, publicists, reverse dns lookup, reverse ip lookup, spammers, thieves,...
What are Prediction Markets?
“The online prediction market is a forecasting tool where contracts for specific event outcomes (e.g., “Bush wins election�?) are bought and sold and their price reflects the probability that the outcome will take place. Prediction markets have garnered attention for their ability to accurately predict the future, often days and weeks before it arrives.” Via CDMS
“Individuals trading in a market...
Chris Abraham is Valued B$33,288.25 on BlogShares
When you explore BlogShares, you will notice that this blog, Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message, is valued at B$33,288.25. blog, chris abraham, medium is the message, prediction markets (via Marketing Conversation)
Washington Stock Exchange is the Place for...
If you are into betting on the outcomes of the United States political world or if you are interested in getting real-time polling data then you really need to sign up for membership on WSE — the Washington Stock Exchange. It is fantasy politics gone wild and it is a lot of fun. fantasy politics, gone wild, political world, polling data, prediction markets, real time, stock exchange,...
A Short Review of Online Prediction Markets
I have been learning a lot about prediction markets and thought I would share some of my initial findings. Some I loved, some I like, some I didn’t understand, and quite a few really lame ones. Click “more” to see my prediction market predictions. (more…) BETDAQ, Betfair, BlogShare, BlogShares, CDMS, Cenimar, CrowdIQ, De Politieke Aandelenmarkt, Foresight Exchange, HedgeStreet, Hollywood Stock...
What is RSS? And How can it change my life?
I am in the middle of preparing for a brown bag I am giving today to the gang at AOL. The course name is “What is RSS? And How can it change my life?” The teaser is “Have you heard of RSS? It’s part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon that is changing the way to people search and use the Internet. Stop by and learn more about RSS and how it can change your life!”
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aggregation, aol, ATOM, blogging,...
All Clients Deserve to Have Representation
In response to Do PR Execs and Lawyers Have the Same Bad Rep?, Amanda Chapel responded, “Your logic is flawed at the outset (with all due respect) …”
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blog, blog search, blogger, Blogger Ethics, blogger outreach, Blogger Prospecting, Blogger Relations, bloggers, blogging, Blogging Class, blogging strategy, Blogging Tutorial, Blogging Workshop, blogosphere, blogroll, blogs,...
The Google and Apple Marriage will be Polygamous
The following is inspired by digg. There are wild rumors as to partnerships and conspiracies between Google and Apple. These rumors seem to me amusing and interesting but hardly unique. This is a simple example of Apple being the best at reading the tea leaves which say, “partner with Google or perish.” Read digg, Market Watch, Search Views, Apple Insider, Apple Gazette for a briefing. (more…)...
Stories from the New Abraham Harrison LLC Website
I have been doing a pretty good job of building out what we do over at Abraham Harrison LLC, including an about page, our solutions, our insights, our consulting services, online publicity services, online reputation services, and our training services. Oh, and contact info.
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Abraham Harrison, Abraham Harrison LLC, AHLLC, blog training, Blogger Relations, blogger training, blogging,...
A Norg is a News ORGanization By and For the...
I am amazed by Bronwen, my Twitter friend, who founded PerthNorg. She is teaching me what a Norg is and I want to help her pimp her very important and wonderful meme, Norg… Here is the sort answer as to what a Norg is, “norg is short for news organization. But not the corporate, MSM news organizations we have come to know – this is a new organization run by the people. It’s putting all the new...
Mickipedia Sent Me Some Link Love
Got some link love from Micki Krimmel. Cheers, Micki!
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absurd, blog, blogging, cheers, chris abraham, code of conduct, code of honor, controversy, ethics, laughs, love, medium is the message, micki, Reciprocal Linking, tos, witch hunt (via Marketing Conversation)
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