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JULY 30, 2012

Long gone is the time when online content meant a piece of writing crammed full of keywords that didn’t make a lot of sense and generally lacked substance and meaning. Today we have the power to write articles that allow us to show off a bit of our creative flair and passion for writing. We are writing articles that we want to write and that our readers want to read.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Not only is it used by almost a quarter of new webmasters, it’s also the system of choice for 17% of Alexa’s top one million sites on the web. If you work with WordPress, or you’re considering building a website on the platform, you will have probably wondered about SEO and whether there is anything specific you can do to optimize your site.

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MAY 4, 2012

QR codes are a good way to get consumers involved, to keep them engaged and interested in what you have to offer. Here are 8 tips for using QR codes in your marketing campaign. 1. Use QR Codes for Contact Information. Use a QR code on business cards or on your website so that individuals scanning the code can instantly download your contact information to their phone – for example, if you own a plumbing company, enabling consumers to instantly download your contact details to their phone as ‘ABC

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

#5: Happy Little Clouds. +. =. #4: Major Landmarks are in Wrong Locations. #3: Welcome to the Twilight Zone. #2: Dude, Where’s my Campus? #1: “Siri, where is the nearest Apple Store?” Crowdsourced post via Quora.

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JUNE 29, 2012

Google+, the social media product of the search behemoth Google, has made several changes recently in an effort to court new users and to continue developing the product as a key social tool. Some of the most recent developments include the interface overhaul, which has received a lot of criticism for the large amounts of white space left on the screen.

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JULY 6, 2012

Editorial in-content links, the most valuable kind of links today, are impossible to get without contacting people; even if you have a few friends among influential bloggers in your niche that you can ask for a favor to guest post on their blog or just to insert an anchor text link to the existing post, eventually you will run out of them, and new backlinks will be waiting to be made.

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JULY 1, 2012

When I started my own website for my home business I was really excited. I managed to create a website and customize it so it looked great. I spent ages thinking about what needed to be on there, and when I published it I was watching the amount of traffic that arrived almost religiously. No Traffic to Be Seen. After the first few days I began to feel a little bit down.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The new Myspace from Myspace on Vimeo. From New.Myspace.com (as of 09/25/12): We’re hard at work building the new Myspace, entirely from scratch. But we’re staying true to our roots in one important way—empowering people to express themselves however they want. So whether you’re a musician, photographer, filmmaker, designer or just a dedicated fan, we’d love for you to be a part of our brand new community.

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JULY 10, 2012

Social media is the driving force behind much of the World Wide Web. Individuals use it to connect and share globally, and businesses have realized its immense potential for extending brand reach. A recent Pew Internet report found that two-thirds of adult Internet users are using a social networking site; other studies have noted the growing use of social media for marketing purposes.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

The cyclonic growth of the smartphone, and since then the tablet, has opened us up to a plethora of apps which, like the technologies themselves, have become smarter and more effective in a very short space of time. Today, apps can help us with just about anything, including your business – and that’s something that it’s all too easy to forget. With that in mind, here’s a little list of apps that can help you on your way to business success.

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JUNE 28, 2012

On March 2012, Target Marketing revealed stats on customer acquisition topics of American business-to-business and business-to-customers marketing managers throughout 2011 and early 2012. Despite the rise of social media, email topped the list with 86.3% of marketers planning to deploy this digital tactic. If you have a blog you can capitalize on this trend by leveraging you existing articles.

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MARCH 29, 2012

The best job search app is the one that enables you to forget altogether about the job search app. That app that will help you to land a plum new position with an up and coming firm; the app that brings to fruition the ideal of Spock: the ideal app whose mission can be paraphrased as ‘the needs of the app user, outweigh the needs of the app.’ When the job search app has fulfilled it’s mission and brought the user safely to port in the harbors of that multi-national conglomerate or other presumab

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MAY 18, 2012

One of the youngest billionaires in the world, also founder and CEO of Facebook, Mr Mark Zuckerberg seems to upset his board of directors and various business partners with his alternative way of managing a company that employs 3000 people. He is very laid back and “modern”, not the usual style of a public company, will this be hard on Zuckerberg or will he show the rest of those ‘experienced businessmen’ some more innovative skills.

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DECEMBER 23, 2012

What is mind mapping? To some people, mind mapping is a place of wonder where thoughts are meant to be discovered. To others, it is a creative playground where you are never too old to play with your ideas and never too young to reach beyond your potential. It is quite difficult to describe what mind mapping is all about because each person has its unique way of thinking and processing information.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Dropbox is BIG. The Dropbox application has become so big that the San Francisco Chronicle recently highlighted them in a feature article. It’s a cogent statement, acknowledging the massive success achieved by this SF Bay area digital titan of file storage. The article makes a terrific point in that people feel more secure saving their most cherished data with a company like Dropbox that isn’t as pervasive as behemoths Google, Microsoft or Apple.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the old days it was Microsoft Explorer or the highway. Then there was Netscape, then the pandemonium of still other web browsers. And that was before we knew what mobile computing was all about. Nowadays with smart phones all the rage, it is time to think about which browser we really want on our Android mobile computing device. If you are a plain vanilla type of surfer, then do nothing.

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OCTOBER 7, 2012

In July 2012, Google Insights indicated that every second 3.5 people looked up SEO on Google. This means that 9.1 million Internet users are interested in SEO every month. The interest in SEO is ever-growing. While India and the United States are expected to land in any Top 10 list of nations interested in SEO, there are a few that make you realize how competitive and diverse this industry is.

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MARCH 18, 2012

They claim that the great recession is over. Those still immersed in the struggles of the job market might beg to differ. With the large amount of jobseekers out there competing for your dream job it can be a daunting experience to endeavor to be hired in the current climate of layoffs, downsizing and outsourcing. Whether you are in the Washington DC software process improvement or in the Honolulu HI hospitality field, you need an edge.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Artist Eric Daigh used exactly 22,765 pushpins to create a portrait of Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann for a feature in Fast Company’s 2012 Design Issue. Co.Design interviewed Eric Daigh to learn more about his creative process. Photo Credit: Fast Company.

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MAY 2, 2012

Welcome to the second installment of lists of iPhone apps that you need to follow your favorite baseball team to glory or to that proverbial agony of defeat. Thanks to the many readers who have made this series the awesome success that it is. It ain’t over until it’s over. So ignore the naysayers and root for your team until every statistical probability is exhausted.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

In the days of yore, before the advent of the iPhone or even iTunes, iCared less about having to morph the English language to accommodate an un-capitalized letter beginning a proper noun. Now I’m almost daily forced to wrestle with the spell check, all because some hotshots over at Apple Computer thought that it was chick to put the small letter I in front of every new product.

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JULY 23, 2012

Perhaps there comes a time in almost everyone’s life when they are compelled to deliver a speech of some kind. For some this prospect, like having to imbibe castor oil, is a source of dread. Enter these 4 Speech Apps for iPhones, like the proverbial cavalry. Coming to, as that old timer Mick Jagger might exclaim, your emotional rescue. In those primitive times before there were iPhones, speech givers were forced to go to the great length of lugging that notebook computer to their orations.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

If you have a website and are trying to boost its position in Google to increase your traffic and thereby your profits, then links will be of incredible value to you. Inbound links to a website have many different purposes, and can not only help Google to index your pages, but also help people surfing the web to find them and increase your reputation in the eyes of both those visitors and Google itself.

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JULY 18, 2012

Making the perfect bio page in WordPress is very important if you are looking to make conversions. According to many experts, the bio page is the most visited page on your website because people want to know who they are buying from. It has also been proven that those without a bio page often make fewer sales. If you have an ecommerce or service-based website, then you need a bio page to make it work.

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JULY 25, 2012

You tweet regularly and are beginning to build a following for your local business. You’re ready to take it to the next level and truly grow your presence on Twitter and harness the social aspect of social media for your advantage. So how do you do it? 1. Engage with Your Followers. First, you need to ensure you’re truly engaging in the conversation that’s taking place because of your tweets.

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JUNE 18, 2012

When optimizing your site for SEO purposes there are several considerations to take into account. One that is often overlooked is the importance of optimizing the naming conventions of your site’s images. Here is a guide how to achieve this. Folder Structure for Images. If your site relies heavily on images for content, it is a great idea to prep your site with a rich folder structure.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Why bother to get a dedicated app to print from your iPhone when AirPrint is already included in the iOS? Because all printer types are not supported by the AirPrint feature, and even if yours is, sometimes all of the ducks refuse to line up in that proverbial row. If you have an AirPrint enabled printer and the printer is connected to the computer through what is known as Bluetooth, the technology that allows for wireless connection of many different types of devices, your request won’t print.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Photo Credit: SavorTheSuccess.com. Being a self-made entrepreneur often means long work days and nights on the road , making the act of staying ahead through continued education and networking a nearly impossible task. Luckily, there are conferences, meetups and other events aimed at people in exactly your circumstances in cities all around the world!

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Photo Credit: SavorTheSuccess.com. Being a self-made entrepreneur often means long work days and nights on the road , making the act of staying ahead through continued education and networking a nearly impossible task. Luckily, there are conferences, meetups and other events aimed at people in exactly your circumstances in cities all around the world!

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

It must be difficult for Microsoft. They have had to get used to playing second and even third fiddle in this thing called the Mobile Operating System competition. Back in the tech boom 90’s, everything was ‘Wintel this’ and ‘Wintel that’. People were worried that Microsoft would be the evil monopolistic empire that they probably still aspire to be.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Voice over Internet Protocol has come a long way baby! There are many VoIP apps now available and they give fits to your mobile, landline and cable telephone providers alike. There are those that will mourn the loss of gobs of money by these competing carriers. The fees they could have extracted from their long suffering customers instead continue on in their pockets.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

The NFC West is gaining some respect these days. Its teams are on the ascension and those media-centric teams back east may not notice until they’ve let the playoffs get away from them. Football is followed passionately out on the left coast. Perhaps fans may see the benefits of being underrated. You will never fall into that trap when you load one of more of these informative apps onto your iPhone.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Photo Credit: optimum7.com. On paper, Yelp.com seems like a great idea. Consumers can log in to provide feedback about different restaurants, hotels, or other small businesses they have visited. They can offer small business owners either words of praise, or of constructive criticism; and, they can ensure that other, like-minded consumers benefit from their own experience.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

If you are familiar with gaming terminology, ‘augmented reality gaming’ is a phrase you might have heard thrown about in the last few years. Augmented reality takes the real world in real-time and enhances it with computer generated features in the form of sound, imagery and video. Pretty cool, right? Well, one of the main ways that augmented reality can be utilized is through video gaming; you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a market for it!

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

a. Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…. — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012. Why Obama Won: A Gallery Of Presidential Likeability from Rohit Bhargava.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

On December 19, 2012 Twitter introduced the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning. Once you have your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. You can even engage with your old Tweets just as you would with current ones.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

It seems that no matter what site gets developed for a specific Internet browser or for a given operating system, there will always be some hot shot programmer out there that will find their niche by making it a better mousetrap. These four iPhone apps have scrupulously gleaned the missing pieces and dropped balls of Twitter’s architecture to find their own place in the shadows of Twitter’s success story.

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