Last week, Google bought the fast growing community-based navigation app, Waze for $1 billion! Waze is a social mapping app that features real-time traffic data provided by users. According to a recent New York Times article: Waze has drawn a … Continue reading
Local CSA Delivers the Goods: Online & Offline
Instead of writing about Google Analytics this month, or encouraging you to sign up for the new Breakfast Bootcamp about Google Analytics, I thought I’d instead share with you one of my favorite things from June – October in Northeast … Continue reading
An Introduction to Metadata
The recent uproar regarding the government ordered hand-over of Verizon business customers phone metadata has many wondering what is being gathered and for what purpose? We live in an information age, but many of us don’t understand exactly what “information … Continue reading
The Social Business News Wrap | Volume 35: Facebook Hashtags & Ford Motors
Facebook’s Clickable #Hashtags It was announced Wednesday on Facebook Newsroom that they have begun rolling out clickable hashtags in an effort to bring public conversations to the forefront. There have been rumors and rumblings for months that Facebook was going … Continue reading
Best Uses of Big Brands Using Facebook for Customer Service
Last week, I looked at big brands doing a bang-up job using Twitter to resolve customer service issues. From tele-giant Verizon to mega-home improvement store Home Depot, these companies are doing what it takes to keep customers happy, even if … Continue reading
Online Grocery Shopping with AmazonFresh
Shopping online isn’t a new phenomenon. In 2012, U.S. e-commerce sales amounted to $289 billion. That’s a lot of cash and a lot of people participating. Amazon Goes Fresh Amazon is one of the industry leaders when it comes to … Continue reading
An Introduction to Virtualization
Virtualization is a key component to many data centers around the world today, and why shouldn’t it be? At TKG we rely on a world-class virtualization platform to house many of our critical hosting servers. Virtualization gives us the flexibility … Continue reading
Read Later Services, Part 3: Impact on Your Content
In case you missed it, this series has introduced read later and share later services. Those posts were intended to help you understand how to use these kinds of tools to make the most of your time. Now it is … Continue reading
Strategies to Reach Your Company’s YouTube Goals
Depending on your business goals, YouTube may be a valuable outlet in your online marketing arsenal, so it’s important to know how to best capitalize on each of the public videos available on your company’s YouTube channel. Videos are becoming … Continue reading
The Social Business News Wrap | Volume 34: IBM Report on Social Business
IBM Report on Social Business IBM has put out a new report on Social Businesses. In this report IBM attempts to move the discussion of Social Business away from the marketing and communications/promotion aspect of business and more into the … Continue reading


