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Social Media: Small Pieces – Big Impact

Man framing an idea with his hands

Social media is sweeping through our culture.  And it is often being described and treated as an immense force.  Facebook is the most visited site on the Internet.  If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world.  A new member joins LinkedIn every second.  Twitter currently has 8 million tweets per second.  YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.  However, the massive power of social media is not accumulated in any single entity. The true power of social media lies in a lot of little things. (more…)

Posted by George Konetes on November 29th 2011

The Truth About BOTS

Social Network Bot

You probably know that not everything, or everyone, is as they appear online. Chances are you have already met a BOT – short for Internet Robot. BOTs perform human functions and many times the speed of a human. The largest use of bots is for web spidering, where an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Sometime these BOTS take on pseudo-human form… (more…)

Posted by George Konetes on November 22nd 2011

Quit Making Boring Presentations!

Boring Presentation Meeting

The time has come to rid the world of boring presentations! You know what I’m taking about … the fact-filled, bullet-pointed, white-board and PowerPoint illustrated lecture that totally puts you to sleep (more…)

Posted by George Konetes on November 15th 2011

What’s the Difference Between Creative Services and Graphic Design?

A Physical Brush Painting a Digital Image

In the marketing industry, the words “creative” and “graphic design” are occasionally used interchangeably.  Unfortunately the ideas are also sometimes used interchangeably.  Both often refer to the development of images.  Both are concepts that one person can deliver.  Both are admirable.  But one is a skill and the other is a process.  Distinguishing which is which can save you time, money, and great frustration (more…)

Posted by George Konetes on November 8th 2011

You Can Take It Back, But You Can Never Delete It

Social Media Delete Friend Icon

The word delete is defined as “to strike out, remove, cancel, erase, expunge”.

Facebook however has unofficially changed that definition to mean something more along the lines of “to take out of plain view”. Because in fact, nothing is or can ever be truly deleted from the social media platform (more…)

Posted by George Konetes on November 1st 2011