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MGHurston Creative Services Feb 1: The violet was making my eyes hurt so I changed it back to my favorite gray. Also, I am excited for STO tomorrow.

06 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Star Trek Online (STO) Review

Star Trek Online (STO) Review

Pre-game impressions
I had my doubts about this game last year when I first heard about it. I’m not really a huge Star Trek fan, though I did watch some Kirk episodes, a few Generations, a little bit of Deep Space 9, but I stopped with Voyager and never even looked at Enterprise. While I do [...]

01 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

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01 February 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Outlets your Business should be using

Outlets your Business should be using

SM for Business
Whether you’ve mastered your social media outlets and are conversing with thousands or not interested in checking out Facebook and Twitter just yet, you’ll want to take a look at these three sites.
More importantly, you’ll want to make sure your customers are looking at these sites:
Yelp.com
Yelp is currently the most popular online [...]

26 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The ebb and flow of content producing (part three)

The ebb and flow of content producing (part three)

I wake up at 7:30 am and I’m grouchy. I hate mornings. But I’m up because I have a conference call at 8:30am with the east coast. I head into work and place in my call. We chat for an hour about case studies, what info I need, who I need it from, when [...]

22 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Bing Observance

Bing Observance

This week while reviewing my GA’s information I noticed that an old site of mine, www.lasvegascrenews.com had suddenly began receiving more traffic of late from Bing, so much so that is surpassed traffic sent to it from Google and is now the number one source of traffic for this site.
The odd thing is this [...]

20 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The ebb and flow of content producing (part deux)

The ebb and flow of content producing (part deux)

So what skill sets do you need to be a Content Producer? I view it as a jack-of-all-trades type of job and in no particular order here is my list…
Key Item One: Writing
On one hand you need to be able to write when asked about any subject, but this doesn’t mean you need to [...]

19 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The ebb and flow of content producing (part one)

The ebb and flow of content producing (part one)

While this may come across as being vain, a lot of people have asked me what, exactly, it is I do as an Online Content Producer and what they should focus on at their jobs to move into this type of position and so I find myself writing about a day in the life [...]

14 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Interesting FirstFest’s on San Jose

Interesting FirstFest’s on San Jose

note: I moved the blurb on Google and Mt. View from Historical to Business & Tech as I thought it was more appropriate there – but it can go either way.
Business & Tech
First Radio Station: KCBS All News 740AM and 106.9FM
nominated by Connie Kim
As the world’s first broadcasting station, KCBS is celebrating 100 years [...]

06 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

I’m not interested in making money

I’m not interested in making money

I love money. It allows me to buy anything I want, from clothes, to shinies, and in general all the things that make me feel better. So why don’t I want to make money?
Sure, I toss up a few AdSense here and there on my blog, and I’ll gladly take someone’s money for an [...]

05 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

A Path Less Followed

A Path Less Followed

While strolling through various blogs online I came across this post from Jason Falls, a very successful and popular Marketing/Creative person. (Note: his post is from a year ago, so maybe he has changed his mind, didin’t find a follow up post to it though.)
That said, I found his article interesting and while his [...]