Switchfast Blog: The Future of IT
Monday, August 23, 2010 by Matt Hymel
It's one approach to build a strategic website-it's another to
play an active role in the emerging mobile location-aware service
market. As any business can point out, mobile users are glued to
their respective devices for plenty of important
tasks-communication, moderation, and regulation. The idea of
"local" has taken off ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Social media has turned into a global phenomenon as evidenced by
this week's announcement from Facebook
headquarters. At 500 million members, Facebook hit the halfway
point to a billion users, a feat unheard of merely 5 years ago
(when Facebook launched). As the internet continues to permeate all
aspects of life, social medi...
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Friday, July 09, 2010 by Matt Hymel
While most college students are learning that "networking" is an
important part of today's economic upbringing, business
professionals know the importance of setting a prime example when
meeting with a potential client or consumer. These individuals are
capable of reading expressions, deciphering body language, and
hearing v...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 by Matt Hymel
A popular topic for online marketers tends to be the discussion
of absolute value for social media activity in regards to business
participation (Even we have provided you with tips on maximizing social
media ROI). Small businesses want a clear - and, ideally,
quantifiable -- definition of what platforms like Facebook and
Tw...
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Monday, June 28, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Back in April, Facebook released their Open Graph API which will
allow all Open Graph-enabled web pages to show up in search when a
user likes them. Essentially, this gives websites the ability to
place the infamous "Like" button that is ubiquitous among Facebook
pages everywhere on their actual website. If a visitor happens...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by Matt Hymel
We have seen social media grow up on a large consumer scale
while businesses struggle to adapt the platform to workplace
performance and efficiency. Today, Salesforce.com has paved a new
direction in social networking for companies. Introducing their
product, cleverly named Chatter, to the public, the
Facebook-lookalike aims...
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 by Matt Hymel
The small business industry will be the first to admit that the
field of technology is changing in front its eyes. Those that
execute with internal support sometimes scramble to keep up with
the vast amount of mobile devices, software updates, or diverse
communication methods. When outsourcing IT becomes an option,
looking f...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Small businesses can have a hard time understanding the benefits
of social media activity. There are still large companies that
refuse to participate. But when statistics show a movement to
digital communication and interaction, it would be foolish to
ignore a segment of potential leads. How, then, can you invest in a
platfo...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Matt Hymel
In many ways, social media interaction is both useful and
difficult to manage. Websites like Facebook and Twitter have taken
the modern web user by storm. LinkedIn, having launched a year before Facebook in 2003, had a
business-oriented game plan, specifically focusing on professional
networking. To this
day, the popula...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Matt Hymel
While some social network sites have succeeded to win the hearts
of the world (and others will fail to win over hearts), others
have taken over the bulk of internet traffic. Locations including
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Friendster, and MySpace contain
immense numbers of users that reside far and wide.
While individ...
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