Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
As a Canva user, I was intrigued by Adobe Express because it seemed very Canva like. I thought now was the time to take a look at Canva vs Adobe Express. Which Is Better Canva or Adobe Cloud Express? Canva has been around longer than Adobe Cloud Express. While many people swear by the free … Read more
I got a weird email from someone so I checked out their website… like you do. The website was an array of self-help and self-improvement theories, each with an available eBook. The small ebook was free, of course, assuming you were willing to pony up your email address and contact information. The bigger ebook (if … Read more
So, by now, you’ve probably heard of Ello. Ello, which I’m guessing is “hello” without the h, is a new, privacy-focused social network. Specifically, Ello has picked up traction recently because of Facebook’s real name policy and the fact that commercial social networks such as Twitter and Facebook sell out your information in order to … Read more
Twitter has come under some scrutiny lately after people started noticing that Twitter was essentially turning some of your favorites into retweets. Most people instantly reacted that this was a terrible idea and that Twitter should be ashamed of itself. While it’s true that Twitter should be ashamed of the half-hearted way they handle abuse … Read more
There are many different reasons people use Twitter. Depending on why and how you use Twitter, you may have come across an interesting phenomenon where some people are very particular about how you retweet them. Twitter Retweet Etiquette When it comes to Twitter, there really aren’t any hard and fast rules. That being said, there … Read more
There is a bit of cloud brewing on Twitter and elsewhere over an email sent by LinkedIn. In the email, the company congratulates the user for having one of the “top 5% most viewed profiles.” The catch is that it is starting to seem like “everyone” got one of these emails. LinkedIn Top 5 Percent … Read more
These days, it seems that technology pundits and enthusiasts can’t clamor loudly enough for social network signals to be included in search engine ranking results. It isn’t hard to see why. Your friends probably like a lot of the same things that you do. That is why they are your friends. Furthermore, the people you … Read more
It was only a month ago, just before the ultimately difficult Facebook IPO, that news GM was abandoning its Facebook ads was reported. The ensuing response cam fast and loud. Bloggers, reporters and researchers all piled on questioning the value of advertising on Facebook. After all, if GM was willing to cancel its $10 million … Read more
There has been a ton of sound and fury regarding Google’s social networking website, Google+. I’m Brian Nelson on Google Plus if you are interested. Well, actually, there has been a lot of noise in the echo chamber of the techie dome. It turns out that none of my family members, nor any of my … Read more
Here is something very interesting. Warner Bros. is trying out offering movie rentals via Facebook. Using Facebook’s own Facebook Credit payment system, the company is offering online movie rentals of The Dark Night. What makes this new business strategy so interesting is that it completely cuts out the middle man companies that Warner Bros. currently … Read more
If you use the "Recommended" privacy settings on Facebook (also the default privacy settings) then you can expect to see your picture, name, address and more taken and used in ways that you would not approve of. The latest "proof of concept" is a dating site that scraped the publicly accessible data on user profiles … Read more
I was a big fan of HootSuite. HootSuite is a web-based service that you can use to manage multiple Twitter user streams. It also works on several other services as well, although I really only use it for my numerous Twitter accounts. HootSuite was a free service that allowed users to manage several streams at … Read more