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Google Plus And Babies: A Double Dose of #Infographics

March 23, 2012

Today we’re bringing you two drastically different infographics. The first is all about Google+ and why you should be using it even if you don’t care for it. The second was sent to us by a faithful reader and is on the subject of birth injuries. An interesting topic for us, but we thought you Read more...

Stay On Top Of Social Media With Topsy

March 19, 2012

With social networks driving traffic the way they do and the sheer amount of content that is being linked to and shared through Twitter and Facebook on a daily basis, the ability to search those networks in real-time is valuable. Google indexes and crawls fast, but it can’t keep up with the daily deluge of Read more...

Failing Forward By John C. Maxwell

March 18, 2012

Have you ever read the book Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell? If you haven’t, I highly recommend it. If you have, you know it’s an awesome book that shows you how to make the most of your mistakes and move forward to your ultimate goal. It tells you how to look at life’s setbacks, Read more...

The Rise of The Hack #Infographic

March 16, 2012

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Hackathons, Hack Days, Startup Weekends and the like are a growing movement. They bring together entrepreneurs, designers, developers, mentors, investors, and cram them in a room to sink or swim on their best ideas. The scene has become a hot bed for technology startups and many have gone on to be very successful, highly funded Read more...

Social Media Vocabulary: 5 Tools For Tracking Social Media Sentiment

March 12, 2012

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This week, social media vocabulary is taking a look at some tools that will help you take stock of your sentiment on your social networks. Are your tweets mostly positive? Mostly negative? These will look at Twitter so if you come across some others that focus on Facebook or others, let us know! Twendz: Twendz Read more...

Having Trouble Making A March Madness Bracket? Have This Website Do It For You!

March 12, 2012

Bracketologists and sports fans alike bring out the pens and begin studying the stats in anticipation of March Madness. But what if a computer did all the work for you? PickMyBracket.com is the chance to sit back and let the computer do the difficult selection for you. You don’t have to spend hours analyzing statistics Read more...

NCAA March Madness Online Brackets

March 11, 2012

It’s the best time of year again for college basketball fans and this is your source for NCAA March Madness Online Brackets. First, I want to give a HUGE shout-out to the Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Team for beating UC Santa Barbara 77-64 on Saturday night, winning the Big West Conference championship game and Read more...

Is Pinterest The Next Social Commerce Game Changer? #Infographic

March 9, 2012

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Thanks again to our friends at Column Five Media for this great infographic on Pinterest. I know we’ve been talking about it a lot recently, but it deserves it. In fact, just yesterday we learned that Pinterest is actually driving more referral traffic than Twitter. Think about that for a second! That is crazy! We Read more...

5 Twitter Tools With Unique Features

March 8, 2012

The latest and the greatest change everyday. Here are a few of our favorites to try out! The Archivist: While not a truly complete Twitter archive, The Archivist allows you to look up any search term and view its history on Twitter. You can see top users of the term, how much it’s been tweeted, Read more...

How To Activate Your Facebook Brand Page Timeline Now! Step by Step #Screenshots

March 6, 2012

Well, we were just putting together a little information on what to do when you get the new Timeline themed brand page on your pages and we realized that there is a cool little way to activate yours early. All of them will switch on March 3oth, but if you want it early (and you Read more...

Citing A Tweet In An Academic Paper

March 4, 2012

In written academic work, citing sources is standard practice and citing a tweet is no different. The Modern Language Association (MLA) has devised a standard format to cite a tweet that’s super simple and no URL is required. Here’s a step-by-step process (courtesy of the MLA) that better explains how to do this: Hopefully this helps Read more...