Social Networking & Interactive Media

Facebook Beefs Up Security with AV Marketplace

May 10, 2012

Toward the end of April, Facebook took a stab at upgrading its security efforts by announcing a partnership with five major anti-virus software vendors: Microsoft, Trend Micro, McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec. The partnership is a sort of one-two punch security effort. Facebook will use the URL blacklists provided by the software vendors to augment its [...]

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Be Productive With Social Media

February 22, 2012

If you’re even a casual user of social media sites like Facebook or Google+, by now you’ve probably come across at least one or two businesses that have some sort of presence on them. Maybe you’ve “liked” them, “fanned” them or “connected” with them. Think about it the next time you click on one of [...]

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Four Reasons to Consider Google+

February 13, 2012

I know what you’re thinking: “Oh great, not another social media website that I have to manage!”  Yep, that was my reaction to Google+ when it was released last year too. Regardless, I did my part as a web professional to set up an account shortly after it was introduced in order to familiarize myself [...]

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4 Social Networking Techniques to Avoid

January 2, 2012

Social networking can be a time-consuming endeavor, so the temptation to cut corners is big.  There are tools, techniques, and add-ons available that seem like a great idea to help you streamline your social media strategy and save time… until they start to undermine your efforts to connect in a real way to your customers.  [...]

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YouTube Marketing in 4 Easy Steps

December 19, 2011

So you’ve heard that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the U.S., second only to Google (who owns YouTube and includes YouTube search results in Google SERPs as well), and that 20 million visitors search YouTube every month.  A savvy web marketer would jump on the opportunity to corner search results on YouTube. [...]

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3 Content Types That Drive Traffic, Engagement, and Conversions

December 12, 2011

Search engine experts and online marketers agree that the key to attracting search engines and customers to your website is useful, unique, relevant content that can’t be found elsewhere.  Therefore, content creation is the most important task for all website developers and owners. Unfortunately it is also the most difficult.  It is very tempting to [...]

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Friend, Follow, Like? Are you using social media appropriately?

June 27, 2011

The term social media is being used pretty much everywhere now. It’s popularity is on the rise, and in turn the methods for sharing through social media are also growing. It can be a bit overwhelming choosing how to share and what to share. I would like to share some guidelines on using social media [...]

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Launching Websites, Launching Rockets

June 30, 2010

Last month I had the extreme privilege of being selected by NASA to report live at the launch of STS-132, the last scheduled mission for the space shuttle Atlantis.  After a thorough screening process I was issued press credentials and allowed 2 day access to the historic NASA Launch Complex 39 Press Site next to [...]

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4 Trends in Social Media for 2010

December 28, 2009

We all know about Twitter and Facebook – how could we not as they have been beaten into our brains over the last year.  Most of us are likely fatigued from the overload of media attention they have generated – Facebook this, Twitter that.  Yet if you use these tools to help promote your business, [...]

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Is SideWiki Google Graffiti?

October 12, 2009

Google is huge, no doubt, but one area they have struggled is in establishing a social networking platform to connect their huge user base.  The more time users spend with Google – the more opportunities for Google to monetize off of them.  Granted, they have a lot of cool and free tools to play with, [...]

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Using Twitter Power Tools to Improve Your Social Media Productivity

August 14, 2009

Now that the hype has settled and the new website smell has faded, let’s take a look at Twitter and how to maximize it’s effectiveness via third party Twitter tools.  These tools come in various forms; from websites, desktop apps to mobile phone applications, there are many ways to get your tweets in order.

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Using a Blog to Get More Pages Indexed by Google

March 18, 2009

So, you’re still thinking this whole blogging thing is silly? Yet you want your website to rank well and bring a lot of visitors to your website? If these two statements apply to you, then truth be told, you’d be silly not to consider a blog.

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