Around the Office: Facebook “Likes” Give Us Away, Google Reader to Close, More!

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Inferring Who We Are from our Facebook “Likes” Daveed was curious what Facebook knows about him … Continue reading

5 Digital Marketing Takeaways from PodCamp Toronto 2013

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The Kobayashi Online team had a great time over the weekend at PodCamp Toronto, an annual “unconference” that brings together some of the city’s brightest minds in new media. Along with the other interactive sessions, we were especially excited to … Continue reading

Creating a Brand Online: Using the Right Social Media for Your Brand

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Trying to understand how your small business can become online friendly? This is the second article in our series “Creating a Brand Online”, where we provide straightforward advice for your small business as you create your online brand. Websites like … Continue reading

Around the Office: Opening the Curtain of Online Privacy, 3D Printing, and Vanishing Facebook Likes

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent was impressed with a clever new video that shows a supposed clairvoyant who divulges … Continue reading

Around the Office: Suspicious Facebook Holdouts, Walkman’s Social Sharing Runaround, and the Trouble with Tablet Magazines

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Daveed remembers a time when only a small number of people were willing to open … Continue reading

Around the Office: A Copycat Site, A Twitter Logo Redesign, Free Coffee, and More

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Roberto found out that a site that a company known as Star Six Media” had … Continue reading

Around the Office: Regent College Online, Immortal Critique, and a Case for Pinterest

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Eva He likes what Regent College has done with their website, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook … Continue reading

Around the Office: Font Tryouts, Facebook’s New Heights, and North Korea’s WordPress Theme

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Since finding out about it this week, Daveed and Eva were able to try out a … Continue reading

Around the Office: Winning Facebook pages, elegant Web design, more

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Roberto knows what it takes to create a winning Facebook Page, and it’s … Continue reading

Feeding the Viral Loop: 9 Ways To Make Content More Sharable

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Having people share your content is vital to increasing its reach and popularity because it helps introduce new people to your content. Like many of the things we learned in kindergarten, however, sharing is an essential skill, and one that … Continue reading

The New Website Discovery Model is People-Powered

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We generally assume that webpages are found through search engines like Google. Digital marketers, therefore, put a lot of effort into making sites rank highly in Google search results. But as the Internet becomes more social with the success of … Continue reading

Around the Office: New WP Plugins, Google to Up Tracking, Ideas from Dx3

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. A lot can happen in five months! Roberto is interested in … Continue reading

Around the Office: Fontsmith at 10, an HTML5 Doodle, Eyeing Social Media, more

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Eva is impressed with the minimal and clean site Fontsmith created … Continue reading

The Top 10 Digital Marketing Trends of 2011 + Some Predictions for 2012

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Now that the year that’s nearly over, it’s a great time for reflection. Being on the edge of digital marketing, we wanted to share some of this sector’s trends that we thought were the most prevalent in 2011. Drawing upon the conversations we’ve … Continue reading

6 ways to become unlikable: Is your Facebook Page alienating your friends?

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Facebook Pages are great for keeping your company’s fans updated on the latest developments, promotions, and information about your company and industry. Visitors who click the “Like” button on your Page will be able to see posts from your Facebook … Continue reading

Five reasons why your business should make a Facebook Page

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Since Facebook introduced “Facebook Pages” in 2007, a wide array of organizations, businesses, celebrities, and brands have been using them to broadcast information to those “followers” or “fans” who choose to connect with them. Having a Facebook Page has garnered considerable buzz … Continue reading

Around the Office: Google’s comment crawling, the business of themes, more

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Roberto found Sawyer Hollenshead’s tips on building WordPress themes as a … Continue reading

Around the Office: Facebook/WordPress integration, real-life e-commerce, more

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Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent likes the idea of bringing e-commerce into the real world. … Continue reading