An Update on Google Social Search
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Posts Tagged: social media
Facebook gets more secure
Facebook recently announced it’s changing access to the site to an HTTP Secure (https) connection. The change will increase the security for those access the site. As you’ve probably guessed, you can identify a secure connection when a site’s URL begins with “https:” instead of “http:.” For more on this story, read this article.
Twittering for business
We’d like to recommend this article on how businesses can use Twitter. The basic points are to be a part of the community and pay attention to how you write your tweets. For help on adding Twitter to your business’s toolbox, contact us.
Measuring your blog’s success
There is a lot of great blogging hints in this article, but we’d like to focus on the first one. It’s important to measure your blog’s marketing success, because as the only saying goes, if you’re not measuring, you’re not marketing. An important first step is making sure you know your blog’s purpose. The article mentions three different types of blogs, and each has a different measure of success.
SMBs still not going online
We came across this article on the online marketing efforts by small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and wanted to comment on it. The bottom line is that SMBs and the online marketing industry are still missing each other. The article makes some good points but we wanted to make an additional observation.
5 branding tips for social media
We came across this article from Entrepreneur magazine and wanted to pass it on. It succinctly describes the ways small businesses can utilize social media to build their brands. We’d like to make it more succinct by highlighting the main points.
Adventure Web educates youth
Adventure Web’s own Gina Ramsey spoke this week to approximately 250 sixth and seventh graders at Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. Gina was invited to speak at the charter school on the topic of safety and security on the Internet.
Facebook in all the right places
Facebook is getting in on the location-based social networking act, with Facebook Places. If you have Facebook on your mobile device, you may have notice this new feature the last time your app updated. Facebook Places lets you let your network know where you are when you check in. Facebook’s blog post outlines the main features of Places.
Where’s Google going?
All the hype over Google Instant has overshadowed Google’s efforts to take on Facebook with a social network of its own. Many have seen this coming through Google’s acquisitions recently. Now rumor has it that the network, Google Me, is coming this fall and far from being an alternative to Facebook, it will be a layer of social media features added to its existing products.
How to choose a Web site designer
Whenever you look up criteria for choosing a contractor, you see the same things over and over: Find out how much experience they have, get references, and check their credentials. When if comes to choosing a Web site designer, these are easy tasks. A designer’s work and clients are out there on the Web for all to see. So what else can you use to pick the right designer? Here are some ideas.
