How Does Real Time Search Affect You?

In December of 2009 Google launched real time search integration that pulls in data from Twitter, blogs, FriendFeed and other sites and places this data on the first page of their search results to provide relevant and real-time search results related to your search query. In October of 2009 Microsoft announced that they had made deals with both Facebook and Twitter that allows Microsoft’s search engine Bing...

2009: The Year Of Social

From an online perspective 2009 could be labelled as the Year Of Social as social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook dominated the online world and have begun to enter into the mainstream conscience. It is becoming clear that people no longer wish to visit a static page to simply be presented with a few choices. Individuals now want to engage, communicate, and most importantly they want to interact with...

Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. - Calvin Coolidge I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and to wish you and yours a safe and prosperous 2010. May your holiday season be filled plenty of fun, plenty of time spent with family and friends and may you...

I’m On Twitter, Now What?

Apologies & Thank You’s First I would like to apologize for the length of this post but I wanted to be as thorough and as detailed as possible in order to present a new Twitter user with as much information as possible to help enhance their Twitter usage. Second I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this and please feel free to email me at chad.egeland@gmail.com or send me DM on twitter...

Do Your Research Before Spending Advertising Dollars

Before spending those hard earned advertising and marketing dollars make sure you do the research necessary to ensure you message hits your target audience. If you don’t gather enough data and do enough research you’ll miss the target and waste your valuable advertising...