Category Archives: Technology
Facebook Changes Not for Faint-of-Heart
“If you have not yet converted your Facebook fan page over to the new Timeline design, your page will automatically convert on March 30th, 2012 which is coming up fast.” Mari Smith, speaker and author
Why Major Marketers Are Moving to Google+
Businesses should jump on Google+ because it’s the Wild West, so you can stake your claim, as opposed to breaking through the noise on Twitter and Facebook.
INBOUND MARKETING: How to Get Customers Without Really Trying, Updated
Readers, what do you think? Your comments and my ability to reply to them are part of the process of developing more ideas, a larger perspective and new theories. This are very important to me both as a writer and someone who seeks to be a thought leader. Looking forward to reading and responding to your comments. Thank you all.
Steve Jobs’ 2012 Presidential Prediction for Obama
“Steve Jobs, known for his aggressive and sometimes prickly personality, didn’t hold back when he met President Obama in 2010: The Apple CEO warned Obama he wasn’t going to win re-election.”
Technologically Speaking
There are many things that are no longer just the way they were. Similar to the story of Rip Van Winkle, someone who had simply fallen asleep or gone underground for a few decades and returned to the present would find his present to be very much in the past. There would be many technological changes that could baffle him. This post, Technologically Speaking, illustrates a few of them.
Local Online Directories Make Biz Marketing More and More Attractive
Visit the Marketing Bytes MerchantCircle listing. Online local business directories such as this one are becoming one of the hottest, most beneficial and reasonable way to attract business. In fact, your customers do half the work for you.
A Blog Post a Day, they say. I say, Are You Crazy?
My biggest challenge has been that I want to know EVERYTHING about this social media and I want to know it YESTERDAY. Neither of these is possible. But I have come to not only see the dots, and have started to connect them to the extent that the gaps are filling in. It is starting to make sense, a lot of sense. It is also a thing of great beauty in my eyes.
Essential Marketing Tools: Local Directories and Google Places
Here’s my latest entry in the Local On-line Business Directories: http://www.yext.com/apps/?utm_source=email#profile?location=117378 And if you want to know more about this, view this informational video: http://youtu.be/DIzwK9jgfCc Sincerely, Alison Gilbert, Marketing Bytes Maven, Connecting B2B and B2C locally and globally Inbound Boomer, Mascot for Marketing Bytes, teaching baby boomers Inbound Marketing 516-665-9034 info@MarketingBytes.biz www.MarketingBytes.biz www.MarketingBytesBlog.com
A Discussion on Social Media and Traditional Advertising Pros and Cons
Visit our latest blog post on our favorite Local On-line Business Directory, MerchantCirle and read about a A Discussion on Social Media and Traditional Advertising Pros and Cons Let us know what you think of it. And definitely let us know if you have questions or if we can help you in any way. Sincerely, …
Does Google +1 = facebook ‘LIKE’ page?
So begins a recent blog post by colleague, Basil C. Puglici, Digital Brand Marketing Educator. It is a fascinating article about an experimental program that Google has begun, called Google +1, to ‘compete with’ or ‘emulate’ the facebook ‘LIKE’ page.
Tech care packages for parents (and grandparents)
Ok all you adult kids. It’s time to say thanks to your parents and grandparent for all those cookies and extra socks they sent you in camp and college. Google has come up with a parent’s TECH SUPPORT care package.
More practical and creative ideas from Daily Grommet
Alison Gilbert, Marketing Bytes Maven, Connecting B2B and B2C locally and globally Inbound Boomer, Mascot for Marketing Bytes, teaching baby boomers Inbound Marketing info@MarketingBytes.biz www.MarketingBytes.biz www.MarketingBytesBlog.com
Introducing INBOUND BOOMER
This is your introduction to Inbound Boomers and first lesson. Social Media is here to stay. So unless you are planning to be put out to pasture or the back nine as a livelihood, you probably want to embrace it, now.
How to Make Bread Pudding out of Stale Bread
Anyone who has had an interest in both cooking and not wasting food has probably taken stale bread and made it into bread pudding. There are other uses for stale bread, like making it into breadcrumbs, but my favorite is bread pudding. Believe it or not, this blog post is not about food, per se; it is about the Internet and the mention of food is for metaphorical purposes only.
The Treacherous Trip from Leopard to Lion: A Digital Fable
Alison Gilbert, Digital Age Journalist ♦ December 1, 2011 ♦ Leave a Comment
About a month ago, I awoke to find that I could no longer view videos on my computer. Was it a nightmare or was I really awake to this horror. I would receive indications on e-mails, on social media comments, on blog posts, it seemed like everywhere. The reason I knew they were videos hidden from sight was because I was constantly plagued by the sign of the black rectangle.
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