The new Sherlock Holmes movie opened Christmas day and has made over $93 million US. A small part of the reason why Holmes is still so popular is that he is in the public domain and new and varied stories are created about him daily according to a story at TechDirt. Yes, he has always […]
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Catchphrases and buzzwords can tell us much about a year past – what resonated, what stuck, what the year revealed about the sensibility of the nation, whether you’re a wise Latina woman, a mini-Madoff, a teabagger or Balloon Boy, reports The New York Times. But if ever there were a year to put buzzwords before
Blame “the media” if you want. But come January 1, we’ll dump the “two-thousands,” and we’ll get cozy with the “twenty-tens.” So say the language mavens, reports The Plain Dealer. In 2000, there were “uncertainties,” said David Crystal of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, so we ignored the example of 1900 (“nineteen-hundred”), and
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Oprah Winfrey created bestsellers with her book club, and she has certainly helped turn some people into major stars, but she has also done a lot for small businesses as well, reports AOL Small Business. Over the years, Oprah has mentioned favorite products of hers, while beleaguered but grateful CEOs have then done everything they
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photo credit: lotopspin Copyblogger: You don’t get to opt out. Businesses that think they can ignore all this “Twitter stupidity” tend to get painfully rude awakenings. The conversation will happen with or without you. You definitely don’t need to respond to every chuckle head with a Facebook account (and you shouldn’t), but you need to
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The most radical shift to media in recent years is that we now have a central real-time hub that serves to enhance every other content platform on the web, reports Mashable.com. Twitter now provides a one-stop, real-time service for all of a person’s content. It allows us something that in the past only huge corporations
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Small Business Computing has a great review of a free biz tool. If you currently use Google alerts as a research tool or to be notified whenever your business is mentioned online, then you’ll love FiltrBox.com. It’s kind of like Google Alerts on steroids. Now the downside to Google Alerts is that it only gives
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photo credit: Damien Basile Many of us in business know how important social media marketing is to our company, however, what most of us don’t know is how to go about it. We look at this concept and view it as complicated, confusing and time consuming but social media marketing can actually be quite easy
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photo credit: Torley Many business owners are getting on the Facebook train realizing it is a great way to achieve low cost social media marketing. However, some of them still don’t quite know the true full potential of Facebook and how they can use it to their companies advantage. Companies can create a “business account
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