Category Archives: Education
Blogging my passion, Pinterest
This post was inspired by and is the result of a questionnaire presented to bloggers, event planners, photographers, social media experts and other professionals by a freelance writer seeking input and opinions on Pinterest etiquette. Pinterest research and blog posts: I have done a substantial amount of research on Pinterest, have written several posts about …
INBOUND MARKETING: How to Get Customers Without Really Trying, Updated
Readers, what do you think? Your comments and my ability to reply to them are part of the process of developing more ideas, a larger perspective and new theories. This are very important to me both as a writer and someone who seeks to be a thought leader. Looking forward to reading and responding to your comments. Thank you all.
Cutting Up The Social Media Pie: Let’s Go To The Videos
INTRODUCTION There are so many parts and facets of social media. Just attempting to keep up with them can put one into a dizzying tail spin. So what I thought might be fun, every once in a while, is to present a particular slice of the social media pie as its own post topic. Today …
Technologically Speaking
There are many things that are no longer just the way they were. Similar to the story of Rip Van Winkle, someone who had simply fallen asleep or gone underground for a few decades and returned to the present would find his present to be very much in the past. There would be many technological changes that could baffle him. This post, Technologically Speaking, illustrates a few of them.
Branding, Part One: Design by Dunkin’
When done well using the science of marketing and art of branding, the result of immediate recognition is now approaching ’0′ time between recognizing, purchasing and consuming. With the continually growing addition of new technology, this process is getting even faster and the gap is lessening to the point where our wishes will be the digital genie’s immediate command. I want it; you have it; I see it; I got it. Just like that!
Graphic Design 101 for the Internet by Alison Gilbert
In the early days of websites, the picture was quite different. A site could be nothing more than a digital business card with a logo, the name of the company and the person, their phone number and e-mail. That was called a ‘web presence’ and for a time it sufficed. It was a no-brainer to copy a business card design on to a website page especially with the help of a program designed for such a conversion task.
Playing Internet ‘Telephone’
When someone quotes an excerpt from a blog that lists content that another writer wrote, what do you call it? Internet telephone? So I guess I am going to play a little Internet telephone with you.
Tech care packages for parents (and grandparents)
Ok all you adult kids. It’s time to say thanks to your parents and grandparent for all those cookies and extra socks they sent you in camp and college. Google has come up with a parent’s TECH SUPPORT care package.
How to Become a Conscious, Educated Consumer
The concept of becoming a conscious, educated consumer used to be referred to as let the buyer beware. It implied that one was supposed to just know how to do things, and if one did not, then one was the fool. Today there is a more enlightened or conscious approach to sharing knowledge and lessons so we all do not have to go through the same pain.
How to Make Bread Pudding out of Stale Bread
Anyone who has had an interest in both cooking and not wasting food has probably taken stale bread and made it into bread pudding. There are other uses for stale bread, like making it into breadcrumbs, but my favorite is bread pudding. Believe it or not, this blog post is not about food, per se; it is about the Internet and the mention of food is for metaphorical purposes only.
GOING PAPERLESS
Just to get you in the mood for this blog post about garbage, enjoy the following video courtesy of YouTube. On a daily basis, I receive mail that I do one of three things with: • if it does not have my name on it, I immediately throw it away in the lobby trash receptacle …
Communities of Culture and Class
When I moved back to my childhood home on LI from NYC in 1988, I was both excited and hesitant. What would I find? Would there be plenty of what interested and was required of me? Or would I find that my exodus from the great metropolis had led me to cultural scarcity devoid of …
Our Carless Weekend
The Carless Weekend
No, there is not a misspelling in the title of this blog; it does mean without a car, not without a care. This blog is about last weekend and the decision we made to go without having use of a car. Understand that it was not intentional or due to some altruistic, ecological motivation on our part. At least, it was not that way initially.
MARKETING BYTES, A Spiritual Solution for Business
My name is Alison D. Gilbert. I am the author of MARKETING BYTES, A Spiritual Solution for Business. My mission is to preserve and promote business as an ethical, responsible and creative means of achieving personal financial success and prosperity while supporting the economy, reducing poverty and bettering the world. My book presents and embraces …
The Treacherous Trip from Leopard to Lion: A Digital Fable
Alison Gilbert, creative person and ambassador of friendlliness ♦ December 1, 2011 ♦ Leave a Comment
About a month ago, I awoke to find that I could no longer view videos on my computer. Was it a nightmare or was I really awake to this horror. I would receive indications on e-mails, on social media comments, on blog posts, it seemed like everywhere. The reason I knew they were videos hidden from sight was because I was constantly plagued by the sign of the black rectangle.
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