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New Google+ Layout: Hangouts, Photos and Stream Reminiscent of Pinterest
Google announced a major update to their social network this week that changes the way Hangouts, photos and the Google+ stream are viewed by users. The decidedly Pinterest-esque layout was just one of many announcements this week out of Google I/O, the totality of which Jeremiah Owyang and Chris Silva dubbed a “wreck…

Fellow fans of The Office television show are sharing a moment of sadness this morning. Last night was the series finale of the documentary-style comedy show that exposed the silly side of the workplace for nine years. For me, the show coincided almost perfectly with my move from Australia back to America and my own journey of joining an American workplace, and then leaving to become my own boss around the time that one of the main characters in the show (Jim) first did the same…

Has writing become a lost art, a nice-to-have skill but not a necessary one? I sure hope not. For those of us who cherish the written word and are prone to find typos on cereal boxes or wine bottles, we appreciate a well-constructed sentence that concisely conveys a point. Smart communicators know that good writing […

Google just wrapped up their developer conference and I’m about to wrap up my coverage . . . for now. Google introduced so many new ideas this week, it’s hard to say which will still be important a month from now or a year from now. But for the moment, there are a few more significant upgrades that I wanted to discuss…

Building a website doesn’t automatically give you an online business. Whether you sell a product or service, your website needs to generate income.
Which means you likely need an eCommerce solution that works for your business model and needs.
How do you decide which one is right for you? Start by reviewing this list of the top 24 shopping cart solutions…

There’s never a dull moment in the parent blogging world. This past month has brought new highs and lows to this group, a group I’m firmly enmeshed in both as an agency which works with bloggers and as the founder of a conference bloggers attend. (I also happen to be married to a parenting blogger – my husband blogs on his own dad blog as well as in a number of other outlets…

7 days ago, I set myself an interesting challenge. I wanted to see if a small business owner could use the free, Ubuntu operating system and the free software available for it, for their business related tasks. If they could, it would be great news for business owners on a tiny budget.
Many small business owners really struggle to afford software, such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office…

This post is full of gratuitous cuteness. Here’s why.
I’m looking into some flights to Ireland (I’m a sufferer of the most debilitating form of wanderlust), and I’m using the flight comparison engine Hipmunk to find a flight.
I used to use a couple other ones, but the Hipmunk chipmunk is just so cute it’s paralyzing…

You’re not supposed to see this video. Unless you work at Microsoft. It’s a fake Chrome ad that’s part of Microsoft’s ongoing “Scroogled” campaign against Google, but it was supposed to remain internal. It appeared first on a blog called iCosmoGeek and has now…

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Shoutlet is a company that I’ve been wanting to write about for quite a while. Good friend Chuck Tobar stopped by our office last week and we had a lengthy discussion on enterprise social media marketing platforms and the skyrocketing growth and attention that Shoutlet is getting in the industry…

We’ve been hounding you about mobile-friendly emails and you’re still not listening! Mobile email readership stats are exploding – actually overtaking desktop email readership.
So why haven’t you updated your email marketing templates to be mobile-friendly? No excuses folks, Email Monks now supplies a service where you can have your designer send over a Photoshop file and they’ll do a great job at building out a responsive email design that looks great on a mobile device…