Sherrilynne Starkie

JANUARY 16, 2012

Google is personalizing search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World. Search plus your world can’t be good news for the other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as it prioritizes G+ content.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 23, 2012

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. According to Jeremy Williams , social media director for the Indiana Office of Tourism Development (and my boss when I do travel writing for IOTD), blog posts with photos get more traffic than blog posts without. Also, share entire photo albums online via Twitter and Facebook.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

Back in July, I Blogged about Google 's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about whether or not it would be able to compete in a Facebook world. " The mistake. Google+ for business.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 22, 2011

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. You can’t do that on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. There is actually more than one reason.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. No slaving over list creation (Twitter), or slogging through the mine field of clicks and sketchy instructions for creating your own groups (Facebook).

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 28, 2010

You can choose and customize between different layouts can be incorporated with other Google services like Feedburner, Picasa etc. It doesn’t require your own hosting and domain name and you can log in by using your Google account. Yet, it is easy to use and you are allowed to change the html for free.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. No slaving over list creation (Twitter), or slogging through the mine field of clicks and sketchy instructions for creating your own groups (Facebook).

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