Archive for October, 2008

Keywords for Life

What are your keywords?
I’ve spent the better part of the last few days brainstorming keywords for the www.imaginepub.com website in an effort to boost our search engine optimization, or SEO. It’s part of the way that search engines, such as Google, find a website and list it/rank it.
The whole point of keyword selection is to [...]

Viral Marketing – Don’t Vote

I just came across this video. Titled Please Don’t Vote – Tell 5 Friends, its content is clever, funny, urgent and–best of all–relevant. It also contains no fewer than three calls to action.
It is the definition of viral marketing.

So. Wrong.

A really, really pregnant Amy Pohler raps with the best. And shoots a moose.
All the mavericks in the house, put your hands up.
All the plumbers in the house, pull your pants up.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/39808/saturday-night-live-update-palin-rap

From Wrigleyville to Logan Square

The second-to-last sentence of my last post, Mister Manners, may have given you the idea that I don’t enjoy living in Chicago. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
In fact, when I met Patrick, I was one of those Chicago transplants who was still–five years after moving here–giddy-infatuated with our fair city. I did what [...]

Mister Manners

It’s been really difficult to keep my political thoughts to myself this election year; but for the most part, I have.
First: My husband and I agree to disagree on many things political, and that’s O.K. Interesting, even. And 99% of the time, we are polite and civil about it.
Second: The older I get, and the [...]