Category Archives: Cloud and Social Web

Get a Leatherman for Documents: 12 file formats added to Google Docs Viewer

I’m a big fan of Google Docs. I rarely have to use anything else for word processing, presentations or spreadsheets. If you have a Google account, you have access to all of these great, free tools. (By the way, you … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer is not the only Web Browser: Tip of the Day

Better Browsing If you’re a Windows user and you’re still using Internet Explorer (as about 53% of users are), here’s a quick way to improve your productivity, profit, and pleasure in using the Internet. Change your browser. There are a … Continue reading

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Open Scholarship: Current Peer Review system is “obsolete”

Peer reviewed journals in the humanities are experimenting with Web tools to re-engineer the process of deciding what is and isn’t scholarship. The traditional peer review process developed in a particular technological and social environment as a way to screen … Continue reading

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LinkedIn.com groups: new features

I’ve been exploring the new features that linkedin.com has added to Groups. So far the one I like the best is how easy it is to add an RSS feed to the Group discussions tab. You can add up to … Continue reading

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Search Engine Optimization Primer

There are no silver bullets to getting well-known on the internet. At the end of the day, you have to do it the hard way: provide great content, find your community, share, link and grow. Tricks will not get you … Continue reading

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Tumblr, Posterous, Digg

I’m setting up accounts on all of these places. Will be experimenting with them so I will know if my clients need to make use of these channels in addition to the big three: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter. Fun stuff.

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Google Trends/Evernote/Head First – Three Things to do Today

Google Trends (http://google.com/trends). Keep an eye on what’s trending in news stories and searches. You can put in a search term and get an instant read on how it’s trending. I may have mentioned Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/) before, but never mind … Continue reading

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“I know that half of my advertising budget is wasted. I just don’t know which half.”

Preparing for the second Facebook for Business Workshop I’ve learned some great new tricks that I am eager to share with my community and clients If you can handle basic HTML, you can get started with custom Facebook pages. Good … Continue reading

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Facebook for Business: Make it work for you

We had a great time at the first of my new series of Social Media Workshop sponsored by the Shelburne Falls Area Business Association last Thursday. About half the workshop participants are not yet using Facebook, and the statistical and … Continue reading

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A different side of Facebook – software

I was a technology leader in my industry once: everybody thinks its magic.  Here’s some details about the magic behind Facebook. http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/

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