Feedly IS the New Google Reader

feedly feature

Google has announced that they’re closing down the Google RSS Reader for good. This may not be a global crisis or cause for panic, but there are many of us in search of a comparable and competitive replacement RSS reader?!  Some folks are even petitioning. Those of us who have been using the RSS reader [...]

Customer Service Quotes To Serve By

Customer Service Quotes

Customer service is no longer the hope or expectation, it’s demanded. It’s the customer experience that matters most.  There are many great companies and organizations in history that have produced and provided incredible service to every customer, and those company’s have lasted long and prosper.  Customer service is the competitive advantage yesterday, today, and tomorrow. [...]

Google Analytics Visual.ly Reports

Google Analytics Create Infographics Visual.ly

Google Analytics provides some great stats, graphs, reports, and traffic information etc. about your websites and blogs but only if you’ve properly added the Google Analytics code to your sites.  This information and visual data can be very useful in growing your sites’ traffic and building your online empire of quality content over time. It’s [...]

Using Free and Safe Google Images

Free and Safe Google Images

Are you looking for images and pictures for your blog? The best bet is to always take and use your own. Just because you can “right-click” on an Internet image and save it to your computer for later use, doesn’t mean that you should, in fact,  I very strongly encourage against it. 95% of people [...]

The Best Web Slideshare Presentations

slideshare

Discovering and sharing the most popular content on SlideShare is my contribution and a simple way to help great content go viral.  In addition, paying it forward and sharing the wealth is just good Karma. Take a moment to view the “most popular” PowerPoint presentations below, then pick your favorites and pay it forward. These [...]

Posterous is Shutting Their Doors

Posterous Feature Image

After 5 long years of providing a free platform where you and I could post our content for the world to see and read, Posterous is shutting their doors and turning off their mobile app for good.  YIKES!! Sound familiar? Google bought Picnik.com, a free online photo editing site, and then did the same thing.  [...]

To This Day – Someone Needs This

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When I first saw and heard this poem, I was deeply touched. Enough that I needed to share it. As kids, and even grown-ups, many of us experience this kind of thing even “to this day!“  When I saw the video below  which was the spoken words of the poem written by Shane Koyczan and [...]

Creating Hotspot Links on Pictures

Image Mapping - Hotspot Linking

This is an example of an online office, but as you can see… I’ve stepped away. The image below is loaded with links and labels which will provide you access to the stuff that I think you might need or at least be interested in while I’m out.  Go ahead and feel free to click [...]

How To Add a Quiz To Video

Camtasia

How do you add a customized quiz at the end of your video? First of all you might be asking yourself why you’d want to? One reason would be to see how well your message was delivered? Based on the quiz results, you could determine the effectiveness of your content?  I bet you can think [...]

10 Tools for Better Visual Delivery

Image Tools

Infographics, images, and video etc. can take a dry wall of words and convert the message into an eye catching, much more exciting and effective delivery for your topic.  Communicate using these tools, and really get your point across. These are just a few of my favorite resources and sites available for creating very compelling [...]