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Author Archives: Conrad - Level 30 Internet Geek

Happy Birthday World Wide Web

Twenty years ago, a simple document proposed a unified way for computers in a network to display information in a human readable way. It allowed you to easily move from one piece of information to another by simply moving your mouse over a piece of text and clicking it. This simple document, was the precursor [...]

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What’s with the Buzz?

It has been 34 days since Google launched their social networking / messaging / real time update tool. Google buzz lets you “Start conversations about the things you find interesting”. This sounds awfully familiar. While twitter limits its users with 140 character messages, Buzz gives the user more features. But will it be a hit?

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Blog Content Creation Schedule

One of the best things to help your brand is to engage your audience with a blog. One of the worst things to jeopardize your brand is to let your blog go stagnant. What does having a blog say about your brand if there’s nothing to read? Nothing at all. Taking the time to plan [...]

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Foursquare and Gowalla Takes Social Media to a new Level

Everyone knows that Twitter is today’s social media darling. Twitter allows you to share links, news or status updates to your friends. This immediacy and the sharing of information to your network is the heart of social media. But with Twitter peaking everyone is wondering what the next big social media push will be and [...]

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Do You Really Need that Content Management System?

You are an organization, seeking to build a site that any of your non-tech savvy employees can update regularly. You want a quick turn around – it has to be up and running fairly quickly. Oh, and you don’t have much of a budget. So, after Googling about, you find out that you’ll want an [...]

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