Starting Sunday, March 27, Bob Geller of Fusion PR hosts a week-long, hands-on forum about the practical uses of RSS technology. Topics include...   more »

In 2002 I made two trips to Russia to teach MBAs at Moscow University Touro. You can read about my early January trip, “Christmas trees in the Kremlin,”  in Rowan University’s magazine. I returned in November of the same year to teach an e-commerce class, where we got into a discussion of how Internet technology has facilitated the growth and speed of feedback loops.

To illustrated to the class the power of feedback loops, I described how the development of accurate feeding technology (see the sidebar below) depended on the microprocessor, which in turn depended on the ability of feedback loops to provide timely data on what’s happening outside the feeder.

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This is the last of today's conversations with Rudy Maxa. If you have questions or comments for Rudy, you can leave them here, and we'll try to hunt him down in India to get answers.   more »

First travel industry PR folks have to know who writes or broadcasts about subjects that relate to their clients. Sounds basic, I know, but you’d be amazed at the number of people who reach out to me with totally inappropriate press releases....   more »

This is Part 2 of our Q&A with Travel writer/host Rudy Maxa. Do you see travel blogs becoming a major influencer in how and where people travel? Are travel blogs impacting your work as a travel writer?   more »

Rudy Maxa is on a plane this morning from Orlando to St. Paul and from there heads off to India for a National Geographic Traveler assignment. So we're doing today's discussion with Rudy as a four-part Q&A. In part one, we talk to Rudy about how he got started as a travel writer and onair commentator and his early days as an online travel personality.   more »

Joseph Taylor is the founder of two industrial websites: www.PowderandBulk.com and www.WaterandWastewater.com. His is one of the early success stories of using the Internet as a tool to help engineers find industrial equipment suppliers.   more »

Paul Scrivens at BusinessLogs.com writes that blogs are the digital path to word of mouth marketing. In The Power of the Industry Blog, Scrivens declares, "Word of mouth spreads quickly. Get your product a blog and get it mentioned in your industry's blog (if there isn't one, why don't you start one?)."   more »