Buck Lawrimore

A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter

Millions of people have heard of Twitter but not joined the conversation. Lots of them misunderstand that it is just another way of texting on smartphones. It is much more, and if you are in business, it can help you grow your business, increase brand awareness, and achieve other important goals. Here’s a very simple [...]

New Charlotte Social Networking Site – Charlotte Online – clto.com

We’re proud to announce the launch of Charlotte Online – http://www.clto.com – a social networking site for Twitter users and others in the Charlotte NC area who enjoy social networking. We are using the new elgg social networking script, which looks plain at first until more people join and post messages. You can have a [...]

Change.gov Lets You Tell Obama What You Want

Barack Obama’s transition team has launched a cool website at http://www.change.gov/ that encourages all Americans to tell them online what they want: “It’s Your America: Share Your Ideas

“The story of the campaign and this historic moment has been your story. Share your story and your ideas, and be part of bringing positive lasting change to this [...]

The Dire Consequences Of Immorality

Our entire world is suffering now because of the greed and corruption of Wall Street and financial leaders. They developed elaborate schemes to milk financial gain out of unsuspecting homeowners and others down the financial totem pole. The whole house of cards has come tumbling down.

The world is so constructed that immoral behavior almost always [...]

How To Get Rid Of Cold Symptoms

Whenever I have symptoms of a cold, especially with drainage that catches in my throat, I take Guaifenesin, available at any CVS as “Chest Congestion Relief.” Guaifenesin is harmless – you can take it every day – and in fact I take it every night because it keeps me from waking myself up coughing. At night [...]

What’s Wrong With America: Complexity

America is in dire straits right now. The economy is in chaos. Gasoline is in short supply. Unemployment is on the rise. How could our advanced country be in such a mess?

The answer I believe is that the country and its economy have become too complex for unskilled Congressmen – or presidents for that matter [...]

Hijacked by Hackers – Do Wordpress Themes Have Holes?

We’ve moved our blog from one web host to another because of a malicious hacking that occurred on Labor Day. Every page on every website we had on that hosting company was hacked with an advertisement for Viagra, placed at the bottom of the page and technically not visible. However it caused each page to [...]

Twitter – Top 10 Reasons Why It’s Hot

Twitter is hot. No doubt about it. When CNN anchors give their Twitter address so you can follow them online, it has reached the high-level mainstream. Here are 10 top reasons why Twitter is hot:

It’s free. Anyone can enjoy it at no cost. It’s easy. Anyone can sign up for their own account at twitter.com and [...]

Marketing In A Complex World – A 21st Century View

Marketing evolved mostly in the second half of the 20th Century as an outgrowth of the efforts of large corporations to increase their sales in an organized manner. Although the Internet has had a profound effect on the practice of marketing, it is still as much art as it is science in actual practice. There [...]

The Power Of Intention – Does It Work?

I have long been fascinated with the power of intention. It was made popular by “The Secret” a couple of years ago but I have also read Wayne Dwyer’s “The Power of Intention” and also the book called “The Intention Experiment.”

I was reminded of this today when I went to the grocery store for a [...]