Let me start with a real story that happened about two years ago: A friend of my who runs a large recruiting form was doing a background check on a candidate and found a profile on MySpace with very inappropriate racist jokes. So he chose not to proceed. Only by accident he ran into the [...]
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As many of you know, Twylah transforms your tweets into an awesome looking website that organizes and brands your tweets. What many of you may not know is how to optimize your Twylah pages to get the most out of your Twylah experience. Following are the top 3 strategies you can implement TODAY to get significantly [...]
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Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin An interesting post to read. In the Guardian, Brin said he and co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create Google if the internet was dominated by Facebook. While Google was a great company in the 90's they never understood that our society [...]
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Silicon Valley remains to be a phenomenon when it comes to technology innovation and startups. And Social Media is no difference. XWeek is an initiative from XeeMe Inc. helping users around the world getting a view into those technology boosters before they become as well known as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or lately Pinterest. Every other [...]
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My friend Bob Thompson wrote an intriguing post about the status of Social Media, which in turn sparked this post. Basically those companies who have a brilliant social media strategy don’t brag about it. And the reason is simple: Why should you share some of your most significant competitive advantages. As many of you know, [...]
Read more →Do you see those “Pingdom Before” speed results? 8.27 seconds load time! When I saw that,“Speed Up WordPress” jumped to the TOP of my to do list for this blog. 8.27 seconds. That’s ridiculous. It took a few different experiments to speed up wordpress, and after much tweaking and un-tweaking, I was able to make my [...]
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I began tweeting being an executive of my former company – I remember what it was like when I started ;) If you google “how to use twitter” you’ll receive over 10 Million results. Brilliant tips and tricks how to set it up, how to follow etc. but how should I actually make use out [...]
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Thought I’d share this video showing what market leader Intel thinks about Social Media and how they help their team to adopt and successfully use Social Media. I only hope it is encouraging their team not scaring it off. Unfortunately it is loaded of things not to do rather than leveraging the opportunity. But hey [...]
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Social Media Experiment Update 5 – aka – “What is the social media experiment update after negligible social media interaction for several months?” As you may have read in my last post, my personal life took an abrupt change in course on December 16th when my son begged me to homeschool him. In order to add in [...]
Read more →SEO (Search Engine Optimization) helps businesses and obviously also individuals or any other group to be found in the Internet. And as long as people search for a product not knowing their name or a technology, not knowing its source or a solution not knowing who is a potential supplier SEO is an important part [...]
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Tooting the horn for an event is a resource intensive and expensive way of getting the word out. With the help of friends, fans, speaker or exhibitor it is becoming much easier. The Internet World Exhibition in Europe is using XeeMe Technology The Social Media Academy team and XeeMe joined forces and developed an engagement [...]
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XeeMe was essentially built on crowd sourcing. This product would not exist like it is today without the hundreds of feature requests we realized in the product. XeeMe also grew to a very large extend based on the support of its users. We plan funding the next generation XeeMe based on crowd funding. And so [...]
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