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I love Google Voice!

Image via CrunchBase I’ve been a user since the Grand Central days and I love it. Here’s another perspective… “When I first heard about Google Voice, I immediately submitted my email for an invite, and within a few weeks I received one. April first provided a review of Google Voice and offered 100 invites right [...]

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Google Living Stories

Image by wallyg via Flickr Google is like the Lucy van Pelt of media. She is quoted as saying “I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”… “Today, a new Google project popped up in Google Labs (Google Labs) that is a unique extension of this effort. It’s called Living Stories, [...]

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Afraid of making mistakes online?

Get over it! “Risk aversion is the number one reason that people and organizations fail to tap the full power of social media. People often tell me that they can’t afford to make a mistake online, because any error will be just one Google search away for anyone to see, forever. Unless you’re prepared to [...]

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Tactic #8: Use ‘branded’ email

This entry is part 11 of 13 in the series Top 10 Tactics and Tools

Image via Wikipedia I took a little time off from my ‘tactics and tools’ series — no one’s paying attention in December anyway, right? ;-) Now that everyone’s waking up from the holidays it’s time to get back on track with tactic #8 — using ‘branded’ email. ‘Branded’ email? What’s that? ‘Branded’ email is email [...]

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Google privacy

Oxymoron or? Digg users voted on the top ten questions to ask Marissa Mayer, Google VP of Search and User Experience. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has the interview. Long, but worthwhile — especially if you’re a fan of Google…

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I’m working on a project…

…to put my business online using only tools that are freely available from Google. The purpose of the exercise is to ‘eat my own dog food’ so to speak and thereby demonstrate that it’s possible for any entrepreneur, SMB, volunteer group, etc. to have a robust web presence and take advantage of these tools for [...]

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15x

What is 15x you say? 15X is the multiple by which the traffic to the blog increased over 3 months. In July I was serving up a paltry 4 pageviews per day. Then I got serious. In October that number increased to 63. I have no reason to believe that it will stop growing either, [...]

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FREE ONLINE CLASS TODAY AT NOON: Using Google Reader like a Rockstar!

Image by indiekid via Flickr I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve posted on the joys of using Google Reader. I consider my use of that tool to be one of the three greatest competitive advantages I have. In seminars I tell people that mastering rss feeds with Google Reader may be the most [...]

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Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts

Image by paolovalde via Flickr What? Not using Google reader? I can show you how it will make short work of staying up to date on whatever you’re tracking… Related articles by Zemanta Google Reader’s “Send to” Feature (mt-soft.com.ar) OK, big request to everybody who can read it – can you please (google.com) Google Reader [...]

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Catch the Wave…

Image via CrunchBase Google Wave be the most innovative email tool since the dawn of email itself and the first 100k users have received access… “Google Wave is one of the most anticipated new products to come out of Google this year. Technology blogs have been abuzz with excitement about this new communications and collaboration [...]

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