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7 Ways to Lower Your Website's Bounce Rate
2.2.12 Mashable: Don't lose your viewers with a crowded homepage. Learn how you can keep the hits your site receives.
Five Tips for Implementing a Successful QR Code Campaign
2.2.12 Marketing Profs: Interested in QR codes but don't know where to stamp them? Read this article and don't make the mistake of putting them on a TV commercial (hint: they can't be read when on TV).
On Its Eighth Birthday, Facebook Files to Raise $5 Billion in Massive IPO
2.2.12 All Things D: Happy Birthday, Facebook! What better way to celebrate than to officially go public?
Codecademy is 1 Million Strong and Launching a Teacher Tool
1.31.12 Mashable: The popular programming educator is soon to be releasing a tool for teachers to use to teach their students how to program on the web.
5 Critical Steps to SharePoint Information Architecture Planning
1.31.12 CMS Wire: Thinking of setting up SharePoint for you business? Read this list of important things that you should know before setting up.
Udemy Puts Ivy League Professors On Your Desktop for Free
1.26.12 Mashable: This startup may have discovered something big in the education industry.
10 Tips for Building a Strong Online Community Around Your Startup
1.26.12 Mashable: Need a bit of advice to start your company. This guide is a great resource.
Kaiser Permanente Takes Millions of Medical Records with New Android App
1.26.12 Tech Crunch: Is this the future for hospitals and their patients?
Social Media Helps Drive the Global Economy
1.24.12 All Things D: Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, was the final (and most anticipated) speaker at the DLD Conference held in Munich, Germany this week. See what she had to say about how social media is actually making money for many countries.
21 Essential Community Management Resources
1.24.12 Mashable: Happy Community Management Day! As a gift, this article is an amazing reference for everyone, especially those celebrating this joyous occasion!
Apple Announces iBooks 2, A New Texbook Experience For the iPad
1.19.12 Tech Crunch: Apple has answered Amazon's call with a new way for teachers to create textbooks and class lessons. See what was announced today here.
SOPA Explodes on Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets
1.19.12 Mashable: Yesterday, we witness many sites go dark in response to the two bills in Congress that would change the internet as we know it. So how did everyone react? Ask Twitter.
Do SharePoint & Silverlight Have a Future Together?
1.17.12 CMS Wire: With Adobe Flash slowly fading into the past, what is to come of Microsoft Silverlight?
NYC Opening its First Public High School Dedicated to Software Engineering
1.17.12 Engadget: Students in New York interested in learning how to program now have their own high school.
W3C Publishes Draft Media Accessibility Requirements
1.12.12 CMS Wire: More out today from W3C. Read here about how to make web-based media like audio and video accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Role Reversal: Congressmen Urges Fellow Online Gamers to Oppose SOPA
1.12.12 All Things D: Word is getting out about SOPA, but can it be stopped?
How to Streamline Site Navigation to Attract and Retain Customers
1.10.12 Marketing Profs: What makes a great site, believe it or not, is its navigation. Read here on how you can improve your site easily.
Google Embeds Social Directly Into Search (But by Social, It Means Google+)
1.10.12 All Things D: Notice anything new today when searching for your friends? Read here why.
A Look Back at Web Content Management in 2011
12.29.11 CMS Wire: Drupal finishes on top as the year comes to an end.
A Look Back at Google in 2011
12.29.11 CMS Wire: Google had a busy 2011. Read here for the full year recap.
Appy Christmas: 242M Downloads Sets New Record
12.27.11 Mashable: From everyone here at Web Teks, we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Now enjoy those new apps!
Google+ Pages Gaining On Facebook Among Top Brands
12.27.11 Marketing Profs: Despite the skepticism, Google+ is gaining on Facebook.
What Every New Business Should Know About Google's Ranking of Names
12.20.11 Marketing Profs: Not quite sure why your new site isn't a hit? This article may be able to fix that for you.
AT&T Dropping Its T-Mobile Bid, Owes Billions to Deutsche Telekom
12.20.11 All Things D: After months of fighting the FCC, AT&T are finally backing down from merging with T-Mobile.
WordPress 3.3 Update Refines Features and Interface
12.13.11 Mashable: WordPress has recently updated their site, focusing on users and developers.
Social Media Marketing Success in 2012: Forget About the Sale
12.13.11 CMS Wire: See what the experts are predicting for social media marketing in the year 2012.
Microsoft Unveils its Windows 8 App Store
12.8.11 CMS Wire: Hot off the arrival of the new Xbox update, Microsoft pleases the crowd with more Windows 8 snapshots.
7 Free Office Tools to Save Non-Profits Money
12.8.11 Mashable: Looking to save some money for your non-profit business? Read here to find out how you can do just that.
The Customer is the Advertiser
12.6.11 CMS Wire: In an age where social media empowers the consumer over companies, how are marketing campaigns different from the past?
Why and How Email Feedback Loops Increase Customer Satisfaction and Reduce Complaints
12.6.11 Marking Profs: No one likes spam in their email inboxes. Learn how to avoid being marked as spam and still get information to your subscribers.
You Are Watching More Web Videos Ads, and You Are OK With That
12.1.11 All Things D: Or are you?
Spy Files: WikiLeaks Releases Surveillence Industry Document
12.1.11 Mashable: This is just one of the few stories out today regarding agencies spying on smartphones.
The Revolt Againts Congress's New Internet Piracy Proposals
11.29.11 Forbes: Much is revealed in the two bills that could forever change the internet.
Smartphone Users Quickly Abandon Bad Mobile Shopping Experiences
11.29.11 Marketing Profs: See here why a bad shopping app can really drive turnovers away.
Foursquare Checkins Reveal Holiday Travel Patterns
11.23.11 Mashable: In honor of Thanksgiving, Foursquare has made a neat infographic showing the busy traveling from Chrismas of 2010. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
YouTube Movie Rentals Adding Pooh, Pirated, and a Pile of Disney
11.23.11 All Things D: YouTube has just snagged a deal with Disney, allowing the popular video site to show Disney classics.
3 Mistakes Web Programmers Need to Stop Making
11.22.11 Mashable: Web Teks knows better than to make these mistakes...
CovertApps Releases Joomla! Admin Mobile for Android, Updates iPhone App
11.22.11 CMS Wire: Did Joomla just make it possible to edit your website through your phone? Read it here.
This Is What the Desk of the Future Looks Like
11.22.11 Mashable: While this desk may be a little pricy, it is still neat to think of what the future may posses.
Stop Online Piracy Act: What You Need to Know
11.17.11 Mashable: A Congressional bill is currently on the floor that could drastically change the internet we know and love forever. Read the infographic here.
Packt Announces Winners of Open Source Awards: Joomla, Druple, and Plone Top the List
11.17.11 CMS Wire: Some Web Teks favorites made it on this year's list. Check it out!
No More Beta: Google Music Goes Live
11.17.11 Mashable: Google's musical response to Apple and Amazon can finally be heard.
SMO vs. Engagement: Why They're Different and How You Can Rock Both
11.15.11 Mashable: On the social web but not quite sure how to make the most of it? Read this article for some tips.
Local Digital Ad Revenue to Hit $37.9 Billion by 2015
11.15.11 Mashable: Spending on local digital ads will grow from $23.3 billion in 2011 to $37.9 billion in 2015.
Five Marketing Trends That Only A CMO Contemplating Suicide Would Ignore
11.8.11 Marketing Profs: Five digital marketing trends you simply cannot ignore.
Honda's ASIMO Robot Gets Smarter, More Autonomous
11.8.11 Mashable: See the video of Japan's latest version of their robot buddy.
If you are Under 45, Chances Are You Have A Smartphone
11.3.11 All Things D: Well, do you have a smartphone? See just how many people made the switch in just the last year.
How To Improve Your Conversion Rate (A Case Study Approach)
11.3.11 Marketing Profs: Having problems turning visitors to customers? Read this.
What Social Media Can't Do for International Marketing
11.1.11 Marketing Profs: While social media can do a lot more than billboards and television ads, there are still some things it cannot do.
Joukuu Lets You Manage Files Across Google Docs, Dropbox, and Box.net
11.1.11 Tech Crunch: Having trouble keeping all of you cloud systems in sync? Joukuu is here to help.
Four Ways to Keep Your Online Audience Interested
10.27.11 Marketing Profs: The title says it all.
Customer Experience: Where Content, Commerce & Community Collide
10.27.11 CMS Wire: While these three "C's" are important in today's internet world, one "C" most often remains forgotten: Convergence of each of these three key areas.
Zurb Demanding a Flexible Foundation for Developers and Designers
10.20.11 Mashable: Companies big and small are increasingly giving back to the dev and design community by releasing pre-packaged toolkits and frameworks to make getting projects off the ground easier and less time consuming.
Consumers Demanding Corporate Responsibility
10.20.11 Marketing Profs: Consumers are on offense to get corporations donating more.
B2B Marketers Moving Toward Online Content Strategies
10.18.11 Market Profs: Research is showing a continuing trend of companies using the web to deliver their content to other clients.
7 Ways Universities Are Using Facebook as a Marketing Tool
10.18.11 Mashable: Many companies can learn from universities when it comes to marketing themselves on social networks.
Report: A Third of Organizations Use SharePoint as an Enterprise CMS
10.13.11 CMS Wire: An astounding study shows that of 30% of company websites use SharePoint as their content management system.
iOS 5 Review
10.13.11 Engadget: After its official release yesterday, the folks at Engadget have a full review of the highly anticipated update to Apple's iDevice software.
Is Your "About Us" Page Effective?
10.10.11 Marketing Profs: The "About Us" page is a business's chance to stake its claim as a viable player in the market. Does yours?
Why Your Influencers Matter Now More Than Ever
10.10.11 Marketing Profs: In a world where today's standards are heavily determined by the consumers, maybe it's time for you to listen to your most important customers: your influencers.
W3Conf: A Practical Standards for Web Professionals Conference
9.29.11 CMS Wire: W3C is planning their first ever event showcasing the future of the internet write-up language.
Amazon's New Kindles: What You Need to Know (Pictures and Video)
9.29.11 Mashable: Amazon just revealed their new set of Kindles. Read here to get the all details.
Three SEO Tips for Franchises
9.27.11 Marketing Profs: Being an easy find on the web isn't always easy. But we're here to help.
Google + has 43 Million Users, Up 30% Since Opening Publicly
9.27.11 Mashable: Today, on Google's 12th birthday, Google + proves naysayers wrong with figures showing a massive step in the right direction. Happy Birthday, Google!
Five Ways to Quickly Build Backlinks (and Get Relevant Traffic)
9.20.11 Marketing Profs: Looking for more places to promote your small business? Read these 5 simple ways of doing just that.
The Google Wallet Is Open for Business
9.20.11 All Things D: Will we all eventually be throwing our wallets out for our smart phones? Google seems to think so.
70+ Essential Resources for Making a Difference on the Social Web
9.15.11 Mashable: Looking to change your image on the web? This will surely help.
Email Creative: Standing Out From the Crowd
9.15.11 Marketing Profs: With email in-boxes more crowded than ever, how will you ensure your marketing emails won't become someone's spam?
The Art of SharePoint Success: 10 Reasons Why SharePoint Projects Fail
9.13.11 CMS Wire: Only 10?
Doing Social Media Marketing Right: Back At You
9.13.11 CMS Wire: Those looking for the right tool to implement you social marketing, look into Back At You
Google Acquires Zagat
9.8.11 Mashable: Google has placed one of its biggest bets on location to date, acquiring local reviews giant Zagat.
Twitter Finally Discloses How Many Active Users It Has: 100 Million
9.8.11 All Things Digital: Twitter has a major milestone this month, but how are these 100 million users using social network?
Amazon to Release 7-inch Tablet by October, 10.1-inch Tablet by Early 2010
9.6.11 CMS Wire: Is the long awaiting Amazon tablet just around the corner?
Amazon.com Is Testing a Redesign
9.6.11 Mashable: The world's leading e-commerce website may be under redesign.
Google Launches New Offline Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Makes Chromebooks More Usable
9.1.11. CMS Wire: We all know how frustrating it can be when we need something from our emails of the past, but we can get to what we need because we don't have a connection. Well, fret no more.
SharePoint for Customer Experience Management, Not So Far Away
9.1.11 CMS Wire: It seems that Microsoft has some big plans in the works, much related to web content management and customer support. Could it be true?
There's No One-Size-Fits-All Internet: Why Audience Should Determine Website Design
8.29.11 Marking Profs: Knowing your audience and designing your site accordingly is essential to having a successful website.
SharePoint Advice from the Expert: Best Users, Trends & Strategies
8.29.11 CMS Wire: Having issues with SharePoint? Who isn't? This article may significantly help you.
Samsung Announces LTE Version of Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 8.9
8.29.11 Mashable: While 4G towers are still being installed around the country, Samsung has released a phone and tablet compatible with the soon to be fastest network to date.
Acquia Unveils New Drupal CMS Dashboard Along with Apps
8.24.11 CMS Wire: Read here to see Drupal's newest update.
How User Generated Content is Changing SEO
8.24.11 Mashable: A look into how the social network has affected search engine optimization.
Seven Simple Ways You Can Strengthen Customer Relationships
8.22.11 Marketing Profs: Keeping loyal customers is often looked over when trying to attract a large number of new ones. See here how you can easily keep loyal customers while freeing up time and effort that could be use to gather new customers.
HP to Apple: You Win.
8.22.11 Tech Crunch: Apple recently knocked out HP's TouchPad without even throwing a punch. Read here to get the scoop on why.
The Executive Perspective: Top Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010
8.10.11 CMS Wire: While many of us are fully aware of SharePoint's faults, others haven't even heard of the software. If you are one of these individuals and your company is interested in SharePoint, you might want to read this article first.
Variety Is the Spice of Inbox Life: Four Non-promotional Email Message Types
8.10.11 Marketing Profs: Lack of variety in your promotional emails can prove to be more annoying than helpful to your customers.
Elcom CommunityManger.NET 7.5 Sneak Peak: Improved Web Publishing
8.8.11 CMS Wire: Get a sneak peak at the improved web publishing abilities by Elcom.
10 Money-Saving iPhone Apps for Business Travel
8.8.11 Mashable: Travel a lot? Check out these apps!
Now You Can Easily Create a Foursquare Business Page
8.3.11 Mashable: Foursquare has made it easier for business to control their foursquare page. Read how.
The Early Marketing Skinny on Google+
8.3.11 Marketing Profs: Google+ is soon to make a big splash in the pool of social media, but what's in it for marketers?
Square Now Processing $4 Million Mobile Payments per Day
8.1.11 Tech Crunch: Remember reading about the little white square that plugs into you iPhone to scan credit cards? Well, they have exponentially grown since we last mentioned them.
Adobe Releases Preview of Edge, a New HTML5 Interacting Design Tool
8.1.11 CMS Wire: With HTML5 slowly pushing away the need for Adobe Flash, will Adobe Edge keep them in the game?
iPad, Touchpad, ThinkPad or Windows: The Best tablet for Business
7.27.11 IT Business Edge: Read here to compare the top tablets as they compete in the business world today.
Facebook for Business Launches to Help Companies Market Themselves
7.27.11 Mashable: While businesses have successfully used Facebook to market themselves, Facebook is planning something that will make it easier for companies of all sizes to take advantage of the new media marketing ways.
Three Tips for Creating Credible Online Content
7.27.11 Market Profs: Learn how content matters most when creating a website with these easy tips.
Apple to Buy Hulu?
7.25.11 Mashable: With Hulu shopping itself around for the best bidder, is Apple a serious contender to buy?
Opportunity Calls: How Effectively Capture Mobile Marketing Conversions
7.25.11 Marketing Profs: With the wave of the smartphone, people now have the internet on the go, bringing you more opportunities to market to them. Learn good practices that will surely get your site noticed.
Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Rental Service, Allows Students to Store Notes in the Cloud
7.18.11 Tech Crunch: The leader in e-books finally provides e-textbooks for students.
Six Do's and Don'ts of Email Design
7.18.11 Marketing Profs: Learn how to fully make use of your emails to your subscribers.
5 Ways to Encourage Customers to Share Your Content
7.13.11 Mashable: Marketing successfully to your customers is only half the battle. Read here to get them talking and sharing your content with their friends.
Twitter Goes Drupal
7.13.11 CMS Wire: Twitter announces Acquia Drupal to be the home of its developer community.
SharePoint 2010 Gets a Couple of Data Storage Changes
7.11.11 CMS Wire: Read here to view the recent SharePoint Update
A Closer Look at Google's Facebook Competitor (Video)
7.11.11 Mashable: First videos of Google's new social site are emerging.
Google to Businesses: Don't Create a Google+ Profile Just Yet
7.8.11 Mashable: While the public release of the new social site is coming to us soon, Google has something better planned for businesses.
Facebook Reveals Video Chat Powered by Skype
7.8.11 Mashable: Facebook believes they are once again changing the social atmosphere, see how here.
B2B Brands Tap (Social) Content Marketing for Lead Generation
7.6.11 Marketing Profs: See how last year's top performing means of marketing are influencing this year's marketing investments.
15 Keyboard Shortcuts to Enhance Your PC Productivity
7.6.11 Mashable: Improve your productivity with these easy-to-learn keystrokes.
Google+ has Officially Been Launched; Engadget has the Full Review
6.29.11 Engadget: Can Google really compete with Facebook and expect to do well?
You Can Now Use American Express Membership Points to Buy Facebook Ads
6.29.11 Tech Crunch: Facebook is teaming up with American Express to help small businesses earn ads on the popular social network site.
Web Optimization: Managing Your Task List
6.27.11 CMS Wire: Search optimization is the most effective way to have your customers find you. But what words should your company use? Read here to find our what works best.
Inkling Turns Your iPad Into A Textbook: Tech D9 Demo (Video)
6.27.11 All Things Digital: Former Apple Executive, Matt MacInnis, is giving the slow eTexbook industry a much needed kick in the right direction, saying that most of this years textbooks will be out before Fall classes begin.
Laptops Powered by Typing Could Be On the Way
6.24.11 Mashable: A study shows that finger crunching might soon be able to keep your system's battery charged.
PayPal Seeing $10M in Mobile Payments Per Day; Will Hit $3B Total Later This Year
6.24.11 Tech Crunch: Ebay's PayPal is really paying off.
Microsoft's Christian Finn Talks SharePoint and the Future of Enterprise Collaboration
6.24. CMS Wire: See what the Director of SharePoint had to say about the software and its future implementations
Before You SEO: Three Steps to Help Your Website Earn Its Keep
6.22.11 Market Profs: Before you start reeling in hits to your website, be sure that your site is worthy of your customer's viewership with these three easy tips.
Meet the Stealthy Start-Up that Aims to Sharpen Focus of Entire Camera Industry
6.22.11 All Things Digital: Is this the future of photography?
10 Security Tips for Personally Managed iPhones and iPads
6.16.11 IT Business Edge: Information on your portable devices are just as accessible for hackers as the information on your desktop at home. Play it safe with these great tips.
How CMS can Help Your SEO Efforts
6.16.11 Marketing Profs: Does simply having a CMS running your website enough? Should you be doing more to boost your site's search hits?
Apple's iOS 5 Hands-On Preview
6.16.11 Engadget: Here's a full hands-on preview of the new iOS in case you missed the Keynote presentation.
The Web's Been Running Out of Space, but IPv6 Is Saving It
6.13.11 Mashable: IPv6 will allow for more that 340 undecillion IP addresses. For comparison, if IPv4's 4.3 billion IP addresses are represented by a golf ball, IPv6's addresses would be about the size of the sun.
Toshiba Thrive pre-order live, stating at $430 and Comes Out in mid-July
6.13.11 Engadget: Another Android tablet is soon to make its release.
Live Blog: WWDC 2011 Keynote
6.6.11 App Advice: Christmas has come early for many who've been anticipating Apple's next big event. Follow the event live here.
Keeping Up With Google: 3 Updates You Should Know About
6.6.11 Get Elastic: 3 recent changes Google has made that are worth noting: Video previews, Google Adwords’ appended URLs and Google Analytics’ site speed report.
Keep Up With Marketing's Industrial Revolution: Five Tips for Retooling Your Team
6.6.11 Marketing Profs: As a hiring manager, what skills do you need on your team, and how do you continue to develop them?
VirtoSoftware Adds Bulk File Check-in to SharePoint
6.3.11 CMS Wire: SharePoint gets a much needed improvement thanks to VirtoSoftware.
How Twitter Works as a Q&A App
6.3.11 Mashable: Many companies are missing a serious opportunity to improve their product with solid customer feedback via Twitter.
Smart Phones Preferred Over Computers for Web Access
6.2.11 Marketing Profs: A new study shows that more and more people are preferring their smart phones over a computer when using the internet.
Microsoft Offers First Sneak Peek of Windows 8
6.2.11 Mashable: Designed to be used effectively for both touch screen monitors and the traditional mouse, Micrsoft is planning to change the way we use the PC with Windows 8.
Google Starts Adding Flight Schedules and Airline Routes in Search
5.27.11 Tech Crunch: Finding flights online will soon will be as easy as typing your beginning and final destinations in the search bar.
10 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Build Brands Online
5.27.11 Mashable: Marketing online has vastly changed the game for many companies, especially small businesses. Read here to see how you could use web to attract business to your company.
6 Excellent Small Business Websites to Learn From
5.23.11 Mashable: Now that you're ready to take your small business to the web, read this article and know how to grab an audience from the first glance of your site.
Two-Thirds of Enterprises to Deploy iPads, Tablets by 2012
5.23.11 Marketing Profs: Tablets are finally finding their way into the business world on a large scale.
Mobile SEO Tips
5.20.11 SEOmoz: Read and watch a video on how an SEO mobile site can be successfully achieved and prove to be well worth the investment.
Google Wants to Become Your Personal Finance Advisor
5.20.11 Mashable: In an attempt to break into the personal financial market, Google has launched a new tool for finding and comparing financial products.
LinkedIn Is Now Worth More than These 13 Household Names
5.20.11 Mashable: To get an idea of just how big LinkedIn is now after its first day of trading, read here.
Email and Search Still Sway Most Online Buyers
5.16.11 Marketing Profs: While social media sites are picking up sales for most companies, the old-fashion way of emailing deals to other still reigns supreme.
LinkedIn IPO Is Set for Thursday
5.16.11 Mashable: The growing business social site is set to start trading this Thursday.
W3C Adds Facebook, Sony, and Netflix as Members
5.13.11 CMS Wire: Just when it seemed that W3C was taking a break after their update, they surprise us with additions to their member list.
Thirty Ideas to Help You Tackle Blogger's Block
5.13.11 Marketing Profs: Trying to start your company's blog but can't seem to get it started? Try these helpful tips that could get your blog rolling.
Apple Best Google in "Top Brand" Category
5.9.11 CMS Wire: Best brand doesn't match the revenue or market shares categories, but it makes a nice tiebreaker and Apple can now celebrate taking the number one spot from Google
Facebook Nabs Nearly One-Third of Display Ad Market
5.9.11 Marketing Prof: Roughly 1.1 Trillion display ad impressions were delivered to US Internet users in the first quarter of 2011; among them, Facebook accounted for 346 billion. See how other companies ranked.
Good Begins Testing Voice Search on Google.com
5.4.11 CMS Wire: Talking search engines sure would be strange to have in the office, but is this the way of the future?
You Can Now Shop Express's Entire Catalog on Facebook
5.4.11 Mashable: Express began selling its entire catalog of merchandise on Facebook Tuesday, becoming one of the first major fashion retailers in the U.S. to do so.
The Power of Customer Feedback
5.2.11 Marketing Profs: A comprehensive understanding of customer attitudes enables you to build processes to prevent customer churn and drive cross-selling opportunities.
How 3 Companies Took Content Marketing to the Next Level
5.2.11 Mashable: Through content creation, brands can engage directly with an audience rather than relying on intermediary media channels. If you publish and spread great content, customers will come to you.
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