SOPA, PIPA Protests

Today is the day to voice your opposition to the controversial anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. Many major sites are voicing their opposition to the bills. From Google: “Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the [...]

Not cool enough to get a Google+ invitation?

Google is betting that its new social network will give FB a run for its money but they aren’t being too social. Google isn’t sharing invites with just everyone yet. They launched their latest and greatest product a few weeks back to a limited audience for a field trial. Access to the project is by [...]

Top 5 Social Communications tips for the Executive Suite

As the social communications freight train turns in to a high- speed locomotive C-Level Executives are being forced to truly embrace the idea of positioning their companies in the social space. Not just for the short, but for long-term growth and sustainability. I have seen way to many general posts that speak about the utilization [...]

Brand NEW “Google Latitude”

Ever wondered where your friends are and what they are up to, well Google has jumped on this and created Google Latitude. Latitude is a part of Google maps and it will help the user check in with ease & share your location while letting you control what you would like to show. This product [...]

Making Sense Out of Chaos

“…only the losers will have to pay for it” You would have to have lived under a rock over the past few years not to have realized advertising has changed.  And it’s not just due to shrunken budgets.  With the advent of the internet and digital technology, clients can now customize their specific message to [...]

Lousy customer service never pays or does it?

Google changes algorithms to deter marketers from going negative to climb search rankings.   Just recently Google had to look hard and fast at their search algorithm. Not because some inventive college student cracked it or even a marketing wizard found a work around. It was a small e-tailer that took a page out of [...]

Facebook to Roll Out New Messaging System

Facebook announced its plan to release the new “Facebook Messages” late Monday afternoon. CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the need for an enhanced system with the mind-blowing statistic that more than 4 billion Facebook messages are sent each day. One can only imagine that number will continue to grow with the site. Despite plans to distribute facebook.com [...]

QR Codes Gaining Momentum? Now Generated by Bit.ly and Goo.gl

For those of you unfamiliar with QR Codes (or Quick Response Codes) are those cryptogram images (typically black and white) that can be scanned to a smart phone. Scanning a QR code allows you to obtain instant answers and links you directly to whatever you may need. Embedded information on the code can include a [...]

Woo-hoo! Google Backgrounds

You can change your background on Google. Nuff said. Now go play whilst I prepare a better blog post.

it’s all about rhetoric

Big changes this week  - in social communications terms – or not. Both Facebook and Google have upgraded popular business features. This week launches Facebook’s strategy for “Like” v. “Fan” And Google announced the renaming of their Local Business Center to Google Places. Of course these products are not exactly the same as their more [...]

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