by Jenny Halasz | Jun 25, 2014 | Random Musings, Social Media
I saw a video on Facebook today that I found inherently disturbing. It illustrated how people’s lives on Facebook aren’t really as good as they seem, and that people save their best (pictures, events, ideas) for Facebook and hide the worst. While that may be...
by Jenny Halasz | Jun 19, 2014 | Random Musings, SEO
I am shocked by the internet hubbub today around Microsoft and SocialChorus. For those who aren’t familiar, apparently SocialChorus, in a bid to help Microsoft promote their new IE browser, contacted Michael Arrington of Techcrunch offering him compensation in...
by Jenny Halasz | May 14, 2014 | Conferences, Random Musings
No one’s more disappointed than me by the recent changes Incisive Media is making to the ClickZ and SES brands. Search Engine Strategies (SES) NY was the first search conference I ever attended, back in April 2004. It was the first SES conference in NY after...
by Jenny Halasz | Mar 25, 2014 | Random Musings
Are you on Google Plus? Ok, so you have a profile – you’ve claimed your name. But are you active? And if you’re active, are you active for yourself, or on behalf of your clients? Because if you’re only on Google+ for the SEO benefit, you are...
by Jenny Halasz | Feb 7, 2014 | Random Musings
There is an old Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times.” It sounds very positive, but it was actually meant as a curse… referencing the difficulties of being interesting and having interesting things happen to you. When I started working in marketing 14...
by Jenny Halasz | Aug 22, 2013 | Random Musings
I got hacked. You may have noticed that my blog was offline for a few hours recently. The hackers won. I was unable to remove all traces of their activity, and ended up reinstalling my site from a clean WordPress install and a backup (thank goodness I had one!). But...
