This past Sunday, Mike Soltys, a media relations vice president at ESPN, announced the termination of ESPN sports personality Steve Phillips. As you may know, Mr. Phillips has been embroiled in a nasty sex scandal. I don’t watch ESPN, but I’m quite sure that ESPN must have announced this action on the air at some…
According to the today’s New York Times two Northwest Airlines pilots flew over 100 miles beyond their destination because they were distracted by their laptop computers. For the 90-minutes during which they were flying in the wrong direction, they did not hear more than a dozen air traffic controllers trying to get their attention. They…
One of the thousands of things I wanted to be when I grew up was a news anchor, and my major in college was Journalism. While I never worked as a journalist, the fact that I trained to be one explains why I have been an early adapter of the concept that small and independent…
Donna Maria interviews Shel Israel about how small business owners can use Twitter to get closer to their customers.
Today, Google and Bing and FaceBook announced deals to include Twitter status updates in their search engine results. Let me say that again, soon, your Tweets and FaceBook status updates will appear real time in Google and Bing search engine results. The magnitude of these new developments cannot be understated. In a nutshell, it means…
Donna Maria shares why she predicts that Miley Cyrus won’t be able to stay away from Twitter for long.
Donna Maria interviews Mike Michalowicz on how you can launch and manage your business in ways that maximize your chances of long term success and profitability.
I wrote my first official blog post on September 29, 2005. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that it has undergone many changes over years. I first used Movable Type. Then, with the help of Tasra Dawson, I switched to Typepad. Later, I switched to WordPress. When things didn’t work…
In this video and summary, Donna Maria summarizes her interview with Erik Qualman, author of “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms The Way We Live and Do Business.”
Technology launches your business to the world!
Easy things anyone can do to improve blog performance.
Lives change for the better through the magic of writing and blogging.
Always read the fine print.
Tagging and small business success.
It’s important to maintain the relationship.
Doing things decently and in order.
The Media Is You!
Donna Maria interviews Lisa Nichols about how her no holds barred, breakdown to breakthrough attitude can help you achieve more in life and in business.
Strategies to help you market your professional services.
Crowdsourcing at its best!
Memories … sweet, sweet memories! Sharing photos of me and other Indies nationwide!