Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Do We Play Games?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

gamer-copyright2As I dive deeper into WordPress I am finding there are plug-in games. One of my customers asked me to install a couple of games on his new WordPress site that we are scheduled to roll out on June 1.

Initially I was resistant to the idea, but after installing a few games to test out the idea, I find that it fits with-in the Personality Based Marketing approach that I am creating.

If 62% of of the time internet users browse the net as a source of entertainment, then it makes sense to offer entertaining activities in addition to great blog content.

I’m not sure what the long term out look is for a platform that requires video games to hold visitor’s attention, but we shall see!

In the mean time, please enjoy the new games that I am testing on this site.  If you get a chance, please drop me a comment with your views on the online game playing idea.  I visited dozens of blogs per week and I haven’t really run into many that had online video games…  So I am curious just how effective the medium will be?

Social Networking Getting Started

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

What is social networking?

The idea behind social networking is word-of-mouth marketing.  Groups of people align themselves by interests, identities, and professions and through these alignments build relationships.

Why use social networking?

One is the loneliest number, as the song says.  People network socially to meet new people.  Finding points of commonality can be difficult in a disconnected world; but in the online world, interests, identities, and professions are variables in a massive database.  Sorting these variables can connect the searcher with a social network larger than any face-to-face net-worker could ever imagine.

How does social networking work?

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