10 Common Ways You Distort Your Career

We’ve all heard that the internet—and social media especially—have led to procrastination. It just keeps getting easier to waste time each and every day. And, even worse, the advent of Klout and other ways to measure online influence have given rise to this new breed of hyperactive social networkers and self-proclaimed marketers who, despite posting… Continue reading 10 Common Ways You Distort Your Career

Microsoft Introduces The SEO Tag: Empowering Webmasters To Rank Better

Search Engines look to rank good content well in hopes that the businesses producing valuable information receive the most traffic. However, since the beginning of search engines, SEOs have sought to decipher their underlying algorithms, some even abusing the system in an effort to get their content to rank higher. For decades, search engines like… Continue reading Microsoft Introduces The SEO Tag: Empowering Webmasters To Rank Better

Flipboard Reaches 50M Readers, Releases New Bookmarklet and Lets You Create Your Own Magazines

Flipboard is your personal magazine filled with the things that you care about most. You can find everything from world news to music to inspiring stories, all in one place. Now you can create your own magazine on Flipboard too! Save anything from the web – including articles, photos, audio and more – into your… Continue reading Flipboard Reaches 50M Readers, Releases New Bookmarklet and Lets You Create Your Own Magazines

ALERT: Will Your Blog Get Burned When Google Shuts Down Feedburner?

By now you’ve heard of the imminent demise of Google Reader. But how long do you have until Google shuts down Feedburner? How devastating would that be to your blog? Here we offer answers and evaluate alternatives to Feedburner. Rumors have floated around forever that Feedburner will get axed at some point! Google has already… Continue reading ALERT: Will Your Blog Get Burned When Google Shuts Down Feedburner?

How To Turn Your Website’s Google Analytics Report Into An Infographic

Have you ever tried to make quick sense of your website’s Google Analytics report? Google Analytics is a great tool that provides a wealth of information about your website’s traffic and engagement, but the dashboard style display of key metrics can be a little much to take in and meaningfully process. Yet more than 10… Continue reading How To Turn Your Website’s Google Analytics Report Into An Infographic

Facebook Quietly Relaxes Restrictions on Cover Images for Pages

In a very quiet move, Facebook has removed almost all of its restrictions on cover images for pages that were previously in place! The only basic rule that survived is that text can still only occupy 20% of the overall image area. Social media expert Mari Smith reported the changes about Facebook’s page guidelines in… Continue reading Facebook Quietly Relaxes Restrictions on Cover Images for Pages

Pinterest Rolls Out New Site Design to Improve Discovery

Pinterest has been busy recently launching a new analytic tool last week and now rolling out a completely redesigned site to go along with it. In January, Pinterest started to test a new look with a select group of pinners, designed to make discovering things on Pinterest much easier. Since then, Pinterest used the feedback… Continue reading Pinterest Rolls Out New Site Design to Improve Discovery