According to Wikipedia, Reddit is a ‘social news website’.  Anyone can post an article, and just like Digg, you can vote on articles. Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, declares that Reddit ‘is a news website where readers choose the news, not editors.’ The difference I found between Reddit and other similar sites, is that Reddit seems [...]

Over the past two months that John and I have had our blog, we have poured a lot of time into researching the best methods for promoting our content. It’s not useful to have a blog if no one reads it, right? So how do you get traffic to your site?  In this article, I’m [...]

Just recently Amy and I had an interesting experience. We had an appointment which we believed to be at a certain time, but when we arrived we were informed that we were half an hour late – which was the point of contention. During this experience we had dealt with two employees, let’s take a [...]

Introduction One of the biggest problems I had early on with establishing our blog was determining what was meaningful and what was fluff in terms of a blog. What did it mean to have a good blog? Was there a way to measure the quality of blog? Were there various levels of goodness or was [...]

Introduction This morning I read an article in the New York Times titled “As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men In The Workforce”. Although a surprise to many, it was not shocking to me as business writers such as Tom Peters, who in my opinion was way ahead of his time in his writing of [...]

What is Delicious? Social Bookmarking. Ok, but what does that REALLY mean? I’ve done my research, and I finally understand. Delicious allows you to bookmark your favorite websites to your online Delicious account. It is just like the ‘Bookmarks’ tab on your own private computer, but it’s online. For years now, I’ve been saving my [...]

Today was my first real introduction to StumbleUpon.  I knew the CCBbuzz blog was listed on StumbleUpon because I had checked it before, here.  However, I hadn’t, until today, taken the time to understand how StumbleUpon works. In this blog, I’m going to give you a brief explanation of StumbleUpon, as well as a quick [...]

Introduction As a follow up to my “Web Traffic Summary, December 2008” article I am providing a summary of web traffic for the month of January. Refer to the above referenced article for the main points behind this series and what I hope to accomplish – simply stated I am providing a month-by-month summary of [...]

It amazes me every day how many helpful tools are available to webmasters. Google Alerts seems like it should have been obvious, since CCB already uses Google for Analytics, Adsense, Feedburner, and many other applications, however, somehow Alerts slipped by me. It was Tim, at cofebuz, who pointed it out to John and me (thanks [...]

Introduction While writing my article on viral mapping I became intrigued by the fact that viral marketing is not sustainable over time and requires an aspect called viral expansion loops to sustain themselves and grow over time. Today I will further elaborate on the concept of viral expansion loops, how they serve to propel a [...]