Businesses with Facebook Pages can now set five different roles for their administrators: Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insights Analyst. This is a useful tool for Facebook managers. Facebook Adds Post Scheduling Facebook’s scheduling tool includes the ability to add dynamic links and images directly to your Facebook Page. You can prepare a post […]
Keep ReadingUPDATE: The pro-bono contest has ended. All links in this post have been removed. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been teasing everyone on Facebook with a “mystery” project that I said is going to be BIG. Well, the time has come to reveal it: We’re going to give a website away. Well actually, […]
Keep ReadingWith the rise in popularity of social media and a lot of consultants focusing almost exclusively on developing a social media strategy for clients, we thought it would be a good idea to go back to basics for a refresher on other ways to communicate. Don’t get us wrong, social media is important and it […]
Keep ReadingOk, we all know I am critic of Google’s data collection practices, but now they are starting a new program called Screenwise where they actually bribe you to give up your privacy. I am not kidding. Under the guise of “making Google better”, they will now send you gift cards for installing a browser extension […]
Keep ReadingIf you know me, you know I am a big fan of our local Sheriff here in Polk County. I served on his citizens advisory council for a year and saw the inner-workings of the department in a way that really solidified my respect for how it is run. I’m not on the council anymore, […]
Keep ReadingI read a story the other day that as usual, inspired some ideas for this blog post. I don’t mean this as a totally shameless plug, but one of the things that makes my company so unique is that we have a very balanced view of the solutions that we implement. What I mean by “balanced view” […]
Keep ReadingInnovation means doing what your competition does – only better. When a lot of people think of innovation, they think of people like Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb, or the Wright brothers who first flew an airplane, or Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. These are all great inventions, but when I think […]
Keep ReadingI do a lot of client interviews for various reasons. Historically, it’s been to brainstorm with the client on their web strategy or design a custom database solution. More and more now, I find I’m being called in to help determine an overall information system strategy. One of the first things that I always look […]
Keep ReadingI am seeing some really neat changes in our business climate. Mom and pop operations are going global selling niche products online. Voice and data are converging and are making the management of communications almost as easy as the management of information. It’s exciting and scary at the same time? Why is it scary? While […]
Keep ReadingMost of the time when people think of information systems and online commerce they think of either back-end services or a web site that sells things. One of the things that many people are surprised to find is that these items barely even scratch the surface. If you know me or have spent any time […]
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