Effectively communicating ideas and building relationships takes some discipline. I have always liked Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The principles make sense and are applicable both in your personal and professional life. A blog is a highly personal refection of the people and/or companies writing it. These principles can be perfectly applied to blogging and other two-way communications. 1. Develop content based on principles and values. While a blog cannot deliver “key messages” in a canned and contrite manner read more...

Is it better to have authority or influence? Authority, as measured by Technorati, is just the number of in-links to a site, but the problem of measuring the quality of those links remains. So why not measure influence?

Onalytica, a UK firm specializing in social network analysis, released a new study on its blog measuring the most influential sites on the topics of "business blog" and "business blogging." It came up with the top 25 Websites (many which are blogs that we all read more...

Aerosmith
Originally uploaded by EbolaMonkey. Okay, I had to do this because, well, it's funny and its done well too.

No matter your political stripe, if you have a sense of humor anyway, this is a funny parody of "Jamie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith. If you don't have a sense of humor, or are a professional sensitive, a term coined by Houston Blogger Kevin Whited, read more...

Although I know there is a lot of controversy about when children should first be exposed to computers, my 22-month-old son loves Kneebouncers.

He always wants to get on the computer “just like Mommy” and Kneebouncers provides an intelligent way for him to do it. It teaches babies cause and effect, when they push any button something happens on the screen. read more...

Many of my fellow PR bloggers (Ike, Andrea and Tech PR Gems) have been doing a good job following Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting incident at a Texas ranch last weekend.

However, one area that hasn’t been really hit upon is this:

Cheney treated the incident like a hot news item that could be handled as an exclusive to a trusted read more...