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The Next Stage in Social Media Marketing

Long before my professional career started, websites were built and controlled by high school students and information technology departments.
A decade later, when those same high school students became college students, they started an internet revolution called social media. The movement led to many companies to rely on interns and recent graduates for navigation through this [...]


To build or not to build a micro site?

When considering building a micro site. Think user experience.
Opponents of building micro sites argue that it makes dollars and sense to drive traffic to subdomain or a special section of a larger site. That way users are forced to experience your entire brand and hopefully they will become engaged with more than one specific product [...]


The Breakdown on RSS Feeds

RSS is a technology that allows for content to be delivered online automatically to those who subscribe to it. Blogs and microblogs(Twitter) utilize this technology to deliver content and updates.
A 2008 study showed that only 11% of consumers had adopted the technology, which has steered many marketers away from really utilizing the technology.
Despite these numbers, [...]


Strategic Social Media Marketing in 2010

In 2009, I encouraged marketers with no idea how social media works to simply get out, create accounts and post information they are already creating.
I hope they did that because in 2010 I think it’s time for marketers who were just getting acquainted to take things a step further by creating a strategic content plan.
Creating [...]


Google Chrome OS – Thoughts and Questions

If you haven’t seen the Google Chrome OS Video below, please watch it before reading my response.
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Google is right – most young people I know spend 90% of their time on their home computers on the Internet.
But what about the other 10% of the time?
Most likely people are writing a paper, editing a video, cropping [...]