Keeping Momentum in Social Media

Here’s a good article from Corporate Executive Board on the realities and best practices of executing a social media platform in your company … While many companies are enticed by social media, most struggle to sustain successful initiatives, particularly when it comes to utilizing new mediums to mobilize their workforce. Companies recognize social media’s potential [...]

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How Search Engines Rank Web Pages

Search for anything using your favorite crawler-based search engine. Nearly instantly, the search engine will sort through the millions of pages it knows about and present you with ones that match your topic. The matches will even be ranked, so that the most relevant ones come first. Of course, the search engines don’t always get [...]

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Emedding Youtube Video Options for Your Website

YouTube Videos The cleanest option is to create a video pop-up from within your text (click here) However, you may wish to create a pop-up from an image, such as this (click on the image) Creating a pop-up version of your YouTube video is a great option if you want a more streamlined look and [...]

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Joomla 1.6 – a great CMS for building online communities

It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of Wordress, primarily due to its ease of use for those looking to blog, sell some stuff online, or build a loyal following of fans. Joomla on the other hand is considerably more complexm not only in it’s capabilities but ease of use as well.  Once thing that [...]

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Apple Mac App Store Screencast Walk Through and Review

The new Mac App Store is finally here … http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/ With the Mac App Store, getting the apps you want on your Mac has never been easier. No more boxes, no more disks, no more time-consuming installation. Click once to download and install any app on your Mac. The Mac App Store is now available [...]

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September Workshop at PVCC: How to Cost Effectively Drive Audiences To Your Website

I’m very excited to host an upcoming workshop at PVCC.  If you’re in Charlottesville and would like to learn hands-on how to drive traffic to your website, please register! How to Cost Effectively Drive Audiences to your Web Site Thursday, September 30, 9 a.m.- noon PVCC Stultz Center for Business and Career Development Instructor: Steinar [...]

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Video: My first impressions of iPhone 4

I got the iPhone 4 this week. Here’s one of my first videos and some early impressions. After 5 days I still absolutely love it versus my old iPhone 3G. Some of the key features I like are: speed – the new processor is much faster than that used in the 3G, so apps load [...]

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Two killer Facebook Page strategies to target specific users. This is good stuff!!!

Facebook Pages are a great way to engage your target market online and here are two great tactics to more specifically target individual users or groups within your niche. Listen or Download Mentions in Facebook Page Updates Mentioning others in your Facebook Page updates is a great way to gain significant exposure for  your page. [...]

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3 Great WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation

WordPress 3.o introduced some great new features including an advanced set of Menu options.  Nonetheless, I always find the need for additional flexibility to customize what Posts and Pages are  shown on my blog, when they’re shown and in what order. Here are 3 WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation: PageMash: This is one [...]

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6 Ways to Improve Your Business Facebook Page

Facebook Pages are a great way to leverage the largest social media platform and connect with folks in your target market. Here are some tactics I’ve been using to improve my business Facebook Page and those of my clients. 1. Consistently post new content. If people have “liked your page they’ve basically given you permission to [...]

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