I made my first call on Skype (it’s the late adopter thing-to-do) last month to a colleague in Australia and I was amazed about the call’s sound quality and clarity! Now I get why people rave about the service, especially when it’s free! Fortune Magazine’s “Is Skype on Sale...

There are some things that don’t need an expert. Like creating your own web site, making a success of it, adding to its popularity and to your bottom line. Here are four lessons to be learned in achieving your web site goals. 1. Don’t let your programmer design your web site! You know best what you...

We are proud to announce that our own Carlos Hernandez, Social Media Guru, has been interviewed and featured in a podcast by Barbara Rozgonyi. Listen Now: Read about the interview and podcast here: “Social Media PR Podcast: BabyBoomers Master Social Networking” At the above link, there are...

Next month marks the 8th year anniversary of my mother’s passing, only to be followed by my father’s four months later.  I vividly recall what it was like to lose both parents in less than four months. However, time did heal wounds especially when it came time to move from San Francisco...

Website design firms are ever so conscious of developing websites that are optimized for search engine crawlers. How would you describe your previous or current employer’s career progression system? A corporate ladder which had a series of rungs which employees climb as they gain more authority...

I was enjoying my morning coffee and bagel in Oakland’s Laurel District’s “World Ground Cafe” and it was very sobering to read the New York Times’ “Breaking Financial Bad News to the Children” article. It snapped me back to February 2007,  when my employer...

We like to keep our website design, development, and search engine marketing clients aware of potiential fraud.  Here is one email from nefarious folks trying to look like Google Adwords in order to obtain your billing information: title:Google AdWords Alert from: Google AdWords [adwords@google.com]...

Josh Bernoff, VP Forrester Research wrote in the American Marketing Association’s November 1, 2008′s edition of “Marketing News” : “The future of social applications online will not include contributions from everyone, because not everyone has the temperment to contribute. ...

OK, Google-ians, so how are the links to your website ranked? How do you link out? How to construct internal links to your site? And get more inbound links? How many links to a page is okay? The revelation came recently, not from the sage saints of the web, but verily from the Oracle, Google Inc., at...

All of our clients are being moved to a new faster email server. Once you receive your new settings here are some videos to help you configure your email client: Outlook 2000 Outlook 2003 (for PC) Outlook 2007 (for PC) A special for users with Outlook 2007 on Vista: you will need to set authentication...