Back when I was a kid, I clearly remember my family doctor stopping by to see me when I had come home after major surgery. Nothing fancy. Just to see how I was progressing and chat with my Mom about how I was doing. Of course, today, that is unheard of. Larger populations, shortages of [...]
Medeo Brings Back the House Call
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Branding, Business, Business Planning, Customers, Design, Development, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, Financing, Insurance, Leadership, Leadership & Management, LinkedIn, Mobile, Networking, News, Sales & Marketing, Security, Small Business, Social Media, Start-Up, Strategy, Success Stories, Twitter Tagged With: App, BC, British Columbia, clinics, consult, consutlation, Doctors, follow-up, Health, hospitals, house call, Medeo, nurses, prescriptions, Vancouver, video, YVR
Increase Social Media Productivity and Spend More Time with Family
One of the biggest issues I hear from my social media manager/community builder colleagues is the amount of time it takes to do the job effectively. We all work hard and want to do the best job possible, but more often than not that means an immense amount of time. Keeping in mind that building [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Community Management, CRM & Business Solutions, Random, Technology Tagged With: Bundlepost, Facebook, Gettysburg Gerry, Google, Google Alert, Linkedin, Robert Caruso, Social Media, Twitter
4 Things to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
I’ve been using my client experiences and questions as inspiration for my articles here on SteamFeed, and one question I have come across quite often is how do I speed up my WordPress site? With so many photoblogs these days and even more oversold shared hosting no wonder this question is coming up more and more often. [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Blogging, Online & Digital, Random, Sales & Marketing, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: FeaturedPost, Rachel Butts, site speed, website speed, wordpress
9 Social Media Tools To Make Your Life Easier
Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amount of time it takes to keep up with social media? Do you wish you had a few tools in your chest to help you accomplish your goals? Well, you are not alone! Recently, the Social Media Examiner put our their annual social media marketing industry report, aptly titled [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Facebook, Google+, How-to, Social Media, Technology, Twitter Tagged With: FeaturedPost, social media tools, Tools
TicTalking Helps Drive In-Brand Conversation
At the 2012 edition of Social Media Camp in Victoria, BC, I got introduced to TicTalking. It was in its Alpha release and was a platform for conversation curation. Nothing really new, but interesting none the less. “Tic” stands for Things in Common and the platform allowed the users to create conversations around their favourite [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Content, CRM & Business Solutions, Customers, Marketing, Online & Digital, Sales, Sales & Marketing, Technology Tagged With: Alpha, App, BETA, CEO, CRM, Development, itraveil2000, nieforth, SCRM, SRM, startup, tictalking
Analyze Your Small Business Social Media Success With MediaMiser
Ottawa-based company with a strong BC presence, including an office on the Island and Vancouver, analytics company MediaMiser is not a new player to the game of analyzing online data. In fact, they have been doing it for the better part of a decade. They are probably one of the greatest companies you have never [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Business, Small Business, Technology Tagged With: analytics, Big Data, British Columbia, data, MediaMiser, Reporting, search, SNAP, Social Media, Web
Who Else Wants An Alternative To Google Reader and Google Alerts?
Content curation is an important function of social media marketing. In today’s world of rapid fire tweets and status updates, creating enough content to share on a daily basis is incredibly difficult. Add to that the reciprocal nature of the “sharing economy”. The 80/20 mix is standard practice in social media: 80% content from others, [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, Blogging, Community Management, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: Google Alerts Alternatives, Google Reader Alternatives
Augmented Reality for Print Using the Layar
As Social and Digital Media forges ahead with new technology and features, print media continues to work at finding its place in the digital realm. Some newspapers have folded; others have scaled back production or moved to entirely digital format. Some, however, have discovered a technology that has been around since 2009, that helps bridge [...]
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Crowd Sourced Reviews For Enterprise Software with G2Crowd.com
Back in the day, I was an IT manager. I looked after helpdesks, network administration and, worst of all, system and application upgrading. I say worst of all, because of the hell that was “the vendor dance”. The moment that you even whispered that you were looking to upgrade, sales people from miles around would [...]
Filed Under: Apps & Software, CRM & Business Solutions, Development, LinkedIn, Marketing, Sales, Sales & Marketing, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: Blogs, CRM, Enterprise, ERP, G2 Crowd, Godard Abel, IT, IT Management, Linkedin, Marketing, Reviews, Saas, Saleforce, Sales, Social Media, software, Twitter, Yelp!
3 Tips for Vine App Users
Over the past 2 months I spent at least 150 hours getting to know Twitters new Vine App. In that time, I have learned three things that can really help enhance your experience on the platform while making your efforts much more successful. 3 Vine Tips These are three of the most effective and important [...]
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