Category Archives: News
Google+ Introduces Communities ‘Google+ is supposedly the fastest growing social media network on the web‘, says, you guessed it… Google! But, I do agree. The dark days of Google+ are slowly fading. The sun is starting to peak through the clouds. Not many people use Google+ regularly, but the geeks at Google are once again doing their best to entice you. So, lucky us, Google has decided to add Google+ Communities. Let’s see what all the hype is about shall[...] Continue Reading
The Twitter Archive: Let the Downloads Begin! Tweeters are now able to download all of their tweets. Forever? Forever ever. It has begun. Twitter users have been given the access to start downloading their tweet archive. How Does it Work? Once logged into your Twitter account, click Settings, then select Account, scroll down and press the button that says Request Your Archive. On clicking this, twitter informs that they will mail you the download link when the archive is ready.[...] Continue Reading
How Linkedin Can Help Your Business When we talk about advertising online, we usually stick to Google Adwords, Facebook, You Tube and Bing. I have not touched on Twitter’s ‘Sponsored Tweets’ yet, but I will in the weeks to come. Today I’d like to focus on the business networking site we all know as Linkedin. How in the world can Linkedin help your business online minus branding, portfolio and just another organic seo result? Let’s break it down… Linkedin Advertising[...] Continue Reading
By Now, you have heard all the internet marketing and Search Engine Optimization lingo. You know about ‘keywords’ and ‘meta-tags”. Maybe you even understand ‘pagerank’ or ‘link authority’. You have become somewhat familiar with where your practice website ranks on the major search engines, and how your competition is doing. You know you need to be at the top of the search engines – as that is where your patient’s find you. When it comes to SEO, you consider[...] Continue Reading
What Happened to my Facebook News Feed? Facebook has made updates again and has politely included instructions & explanations as to why and how. Here is the basic breakdown of what has changed: 1) Since you have last logged on to Facebook, all of the news & photos they think you will find most interesting is displayed at the top. Facebook has now marked these top stories with a blue corner. 2) Photos are now bigger in your news feed![...] Continue Reading
Facebook has rolled out another new feature called the Subscribe button! The purpose behind the button is to “subscribe” to people you are in interested in and fine tune your news feed. For example, if you have a certain celebrity or political figure you like to hear from, you can subscribe to their public updates and they will appear in your news feed. You can also pick and choose what types of updates and posts you want to view. So[...] Continue Reading
Over 25 million people have migrated over to using Google+. Beating Facebook for the title of the fastest growing social network, Google+ comes with some features that also provide some hefty competition! I know it is difficult to go onto a new social network where most of your friends might have not switched to the other side, but Google+ has created some unique features to make you consider leaving Facebook behind… 1) Circles- This feature lets you organize your contacts[...] Continue Reading
Since the reveal of the Hacker Group Anonymous claiming to “kill” Facebook on November 5, 2011, Facebook has made big privacy changes for its users. The Hacktivist groups reasoning for the attack was based off of users not choosing stronger privacy settings, and Facebook taking advantage of people’s information. Anonymous has been known for hacking 70 law enforcement websites and the Syrian Ministry of Defense website as well. So how should you use Facebook’s privacy changes? First off, Facebook is[...] Continue Reading
Get ready Facebook because your first real competitor is about to hatch. Did you know that more people are using Google’s websites than Facebook every month…but when it comes to the brass tacks for businesses Facebook blows them out of the water. So what is the search engine giant going to do about this? They have created Google+ which is in developing and testing stages to take on Facebook and bring new innovative social media tools to the table through[...] Continue Reading
Comments from this ridiculousness… “IRS should not use Social Media to verify information! People probably lie more on those sites than their taxes!” “Start complaining how poor you are on Facebook!” “umm yea, I’m glad I am not on Facebook…” “35% of Americans have online regrets, well now this makes that fact higher!” Tax Evasion Criminals beware… stay off of social media or you will get caught! Last December, a lawsuit was filed by the EFF and UC Berkley’s Samuelson[...] Continue Reading
