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Loving Flex

We have been heavily involved in a Flex widget development project this week. I have to say…Flex is a very, very cool technology. I plead ignorance…when I used to see dynamic Flash banner ads on search engine or content pages, I just assumed they were...

Mid-October Update

Guys, I’m sorry. I just can’t keep these blogs updated lately. Things have gotten very busy around the office. We’re in a bit of a growth spurt and things are quite busy around the office. I really hope to find more time in the coming weeks to start...

Tiny URLs in Email Messages

One thing I’ve noticed in various junk marketing emails I’ve received lately is that email marketers have started using tiny URLs in their email messages. A tiny URL is basically a URL that is routed through another service that knows what the actual URL...

Google Shakeup: Just Stick to the Basics

Google has been doing some things lately with its index that have caused quite a bit of shuffling of rankings. However, what we are finding is that, in general, in a few days things get restored to something like what they were before. So if you have high rankings...

Knee Deep in Code

Jerry here. Man, I have been knee-deep in code for weeks now. Sometimes I curse having a background in programming. But the fact is, my having that experience is invaluable. One thing Work Media prides itself on is our flexibility in being able to help someone with...

Updating Twitter with TweetLater and TwitterFeed

The deeper we dig into the Twitter world, the more different ways we are finding to take advantage of it. I (this is Jerry) have to admit that I am much more intrigued by Twitter than I am with Facebook. I have yet to really realize the benefit of Facebook, although...

Don't Be Fooled by this Old SEO Trick

Here is a trick of the SEO trade: To demonstrate your skill in SEO by achieving a very high search engine ranking for a very low competition keyword. Look, if your site ranks well for a keyword that noone ever uses, have you really accomplished anything? No! My...

Social Media: Walking Down a Hallway with Lots of Doors

There is a classic business metaphor that associates being in business with walking down a hallway with lots of doors. Just walking down the hallway (the state of conducting some kind of business) will reveal opportunities that you could not see until you walked down...

New Direction for Work Media

Work media is enjoying our new office located in downtown Dickson. Our productivity is up and our travel time is way down. We can all get to the office in 15 minutes or less, which uses more time to spend researching Internet Marketing strategies and applying them to...

Using Groups to Organize Your Twitter Account with TweetDeck

Once your Twitter account gets up to a couple thousand followers, it can be difficult to manage. Unless you’re rich and don’t have anything better to do, you can’t really sit around all day and do nothing but read tweets. However, checking out what...