5 Social Media Tools for your Business

Which social-media sites are best for your business? It depends on your company size, your industry, and your social-media goals. It also depends on what type of social networking you enjoy and will persist in doing. Major social-media sites can be a great place to find customers due to their large user bases, but it […]

Google +1 Goes Public

Google’s +1 buttons have went public last night for all website owners. Those of you that have signed up to the mailing list in hopes of being notified when this goes live should have gotten an email yesterday with a link to follow to generate your own +1 button for your website. Unfortunately the link […]

Why So Many People Use Shortened URLs

Social networking and micro-blogging have become staples not just of personal communications, but also of website promotion and marketing. In these contexts, brevity is important, and long, unwieldy URL links sometimes won’t even fit within the allotted space allowed, such as the 140 characters allowed by Twitter. To avoid having to copy and paste long […]