Tag Archives: blogging

Slideshow: Posterous is the new blog

by on October 23, 2009 in Blogging, Social Media

Originally published Sept. 29. 2009: I originally intended this slideshow for local business people who wanted a blog for marketing purposes, but didn’t have the inclination to start a blog due to writing and time commitments. After posting the slideshow, I received feedback that Posterous was a great method to create new “blogs” on a [...]

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The End of Long Comments

The End of Long Comments

by on February 19, 2009 in Blogging, Facebook, Social Media, Social networking, Twitter

Two years ago, online conversation used to reside on blogs and their commentators. The objective was to make and validate points of discussion. Now, soundbite communication – SMS, micro-blogging, “like” – distills communication down to making the point. The speed of online communication is accelerating because, in simplest possible terms, there are now more people [...]

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Incorporate “Breaking News” into Websites and Make Them Compelling Reads

Incorporate “Breaking News” into Websites and Make Them Compelling Reads

by on December 4, 2008 in Blogging, Domus Consulting Group, Enterprise, Facebook, Marketing, Mass Media, New business models, Publishing, Real Estate, Slideshows, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Web tools

I have been discussing over the past half year a new paradigm for capturing committed loyal readership to websites using “Breaking News”. Consumers contemplating any major financial transaction based activity – real estate, securities, cars, even retail – need continual flow of real time news to evaluate when to pull the trigger on the transaction. [...]

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Three Social Media Functions: Source, Distribute and Discuss

by on December 1, 2008 in Blogging, Facebook, Marketing, Newspapers, Slideshows, Social networking, Twitter

Anybody writing a blog, participating on Twitter, upload to YouTube or using one of the thousands of social media applications can divide their activity into three categories: Content Sources Content Distributors Social Butterflies What they do Bloggers and journalists who source, analyze or interpret new information, ideas, data or breaking news. Bloggers and social media [...]

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The Portability of Content

by on November 18, 2008 in Advertising, Blogging, Mass Media, Real Estate, Transparency

Wired magazine’s article last month Twitter, Flickr, Facebook makes Blogs look so 2004 posits the “death of blogging”. Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and [...]

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The Social Media System

by on September 23, 2008 in Domus Consulting Group, Social Media, Technology, Web tools

We’ve just updated our Domus Consulting Group site to clarify one of our initiatives we introduced at BlogWorld: Domus Consulting Group is the leader in the development of a new social media platform we simply call the “Social Media System“. This system enables companies, organizations and groups to create powerful effective social networks WITHOUT REQUIRING [...]

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The Big Reader Divide between Mass Media and Social Media

The Big Reader Divide between Mass Media and Social Media

by on August 25, 2008 in Mass Media, Real Estate

We in the social media implicitly understand that the mainstream media readership are still getting their feet wet when it comes to finding, reading and subscribing to blogs (unless they look like MSM like Huffington Post, or are blogs residing within MSM like the NYT). I discovered a contrary example in a Washington Post article [...]

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