Category Archives: social media

Eric Schmidt – I Screwed Up

Previous long running CEO of Google Eric Schmidt during a conference yesterday had a lot of thoughts to share about the online world. Facebook for example, had connections to all of the friends you have, have ever had and even … Continue reading

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Simple Content & Advocate Questions Answered

Content You have 2 options:  1) Good content without promotion or 2)  Good content with promotion.  #2 wins every single time.  As long as there is a profit motive for good content, there is a profit motive for promoting it.  … Continue reading

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Social Networking in Plain English

Some people & business owners are still not sure what social networking is all about and how it works. The guys over at commoncraft.com came up a few years ago with a really simple explanation by video. Enjoy. If you … Continue reading

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The Social Network – Is Facebook Safe?

The dot com boom soon went bang for a large number of websites. MySpace looks to be the latest casualty as its popularity seems to have dwindled significantly in the shadow of giants like Twitter and Facebook. A partnership has … Continue reading

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Socially Searching – Google and Bing Social Metrics

Search Engine Results Pages or SERPs as it’s less of a mouthful, is the organic listing of relevant results returned from a search query. Or even simpler put, it’s the list you get when you search in Google, Bing or … Continue reading

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Is Social Media Worth Your Time?

Facebook is vying to be a one stop portal on the web, what with offering communication, connections to your friends and families, business information if you can bothered to use their mediochre search functions, games and the list is growing. … Continue reading

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SEO is Dead!? Again?

In the not so new news, the death of SEO is being cried again. The cause this time is the Facebook and Bing partnership. I’ve read about the social search changes that have been incorporated, and just as Google shrugged … Continue reading

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The New Social Search – BingBook?

There was the big conference today from Microsoft Bing and Facebook, and from the sounds of things they’re trying to give the world of search a stiff shake. The partnership idea that’s been rolled out (very small snippet) is when … Continue reading

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Online Spending Increased 25% – Stats Can

All of the talk about people moving their purchasing power to the internet, isn’t complete hogwash. According to StatsCans newest numbers, Canadians online expenditures have increased to $15 billion (2009) from $12 billion (2007). The total was broken down into … Continue reading

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Google hits the Street – And About Being Social

Another one bites the dust? Google is rumored to picking up social media currency creator Jambool, makers of Social Gold. Social Gold is a secure payment method used in online games like Mafia Wars. Social Gold gives app developers the … Continue reading

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