Two things are apparent upon Googling “fired for Facebook post”: The press, and most anyone reading it, have a field day with these stories. What you publish via Facebook can, in fact, jeopardize your job. Highlights from said search aren’t… Continue reading
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Tags: Facebook, fired for facebook post, media, Online Reputation, Social Network, Twitter
Everyone loves a good widget, and the creative folks over at Vimeo are apparently no different. It all begins here. As you can see, you’re afforded two choices: Hubnut and Montage. Hubnut provides for consecutive viewing of your videos while… Continue reading
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Tags: embed, Facebook, share, Social Media, Video, video hosting, Vimeo, widget
Social media is a proven window to an engaged audience. How do you get there though? Wildfire published a very useful post on its blog nearly a year ago that covers building in extra social dimension into your Wildfire promotions.… Continue reading
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Tags: EA Sports, Group Deals, Groupon, marketing, NBA Jam, promotions, Social Media, SugarSync, sweepstakes, Wildfire
Vimeo has done a good job of carving out a niche for itself that values artisanship and craftsmanship in videography across its user-uploaded content. Unlike YouTube, Vimeo’s not really the place for a video of your kid super-glueing a telephone… Continue reading
Your basic search on Vimeo can be a tricky thing if you’re accustomed to searching for videos as through Google and/or YouTube. Why? Because Vimeo defines relevancy in a search largely by play count, as oppose to, say, matching keywords… Continue reading
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Tags: search, video hosting, videos, Vimeo, vimeo search
Back in late January Vimeo began rolling out its site-wide redesign; you can give it a whirl here. It is within the new Vimeo that we researched, wrote and recorded all of our new Vimeo courses. Alas, if you are… Continue reading
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Tags: grovo, new Vimeo, online video, video tutorial, Vimeo, Vimeo redesign
Wildfire Interactive is the biggest social media marketing software company in the world. Less than three years from their summer 2009 launch, as they recently posted, the Palo Alto-based company has powered over 200,000 marketing campaigns world wide, some of which… Continue reading
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Tags: Accel, Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social media marketing, Twitter, Victoria Ransom, Wildfire, Wildfire Promotions
Earlier this week Mark Zuckerberg appeared on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” to announce that Facebook’s 900 million+ user base can register themselves as organ donors on the social network. Well done. Here is some data from the U.S. Department of… Continue reading
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Tags: Facebook, Facebook Timeline, organ donor, Social Network, Timeline, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Exactly one week ago today I posted about Ge.tt’s crafty notifications — more a look at Ge.tt aesthete, which I dig a whole lot; this was a surface level post. I’m following up with y’all today for an “in-depth” look… Continue reading
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Tags: Cloud, cloud sharing, cloud storage, Ge.tt, share
We are seeing translation functionality being integrated more and more into our day-to-day online products. Google offers both on-site translation as well as Google Translate.
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Tags: Gmail, Gmail automatic translate, Gmail Labs, Gmail Translate
Any website worth anything knows the keywords that they rank best for, how they rank, and who their competition is for said keywords. All this information can quickly and easily be researched using SEOmoz’s keyword analysis tool. SEOmoz Keyword Research… Continue reading
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Tags: keyword, keyword research, Search Engine Optimization, SEOmoz
So, Kickstarter has moved beyond crowdfunding art projects and coffee shops. According to Wired, Kickstarter, just three years into operation, has liaised 2 million people and a collective $200 million to back some 22,000 projects. What now? Well, Kickstarter’s getting… Continue reading
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Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsource, Fundhaus, Get Social, Kickstarter, Pebble watch
What was originally speculated to be an “Over Optimization Algorithm,” as hinted to by Matt Cutts, software engineer and head of the webspam team at Google, has, since the end of April, been clarified to be a “webspam algorithm update”… Continue reading
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Tags: algorithm update, black hat, Google, search, Search Engine, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEOmoz, Webspam, white hat
Did you know that at literally any time you can embed a Grovo widget on your website or blog? What is a Grovo widget, you ask? The Grovo Widget is an embeddable version of our proprietary video player, and in… Continue reading
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Tags: Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts, grovo, Grovo Widget, online education
As far as publishing content, April 2012 was a strong month for us–one of the company’s best. Here’s our first ever monthly round-up, which features course releases as well as corresponding posts. Enjoy! Bandcamp Use Discount Codes For Your… Continue reading
