BING = But It’s Not Google I have to admit, I snickered when I first read this clever little acronym for Bing!, given my penchant for all things Google. And does anyone else find the Bing TV commercials annoying? (“Moms who wear jeans to match their teen’s jeans”- ugh). However, now that the Yahoo-Microsoft search…
Year: 2009
Getting Started with WordPress: Blog Video Training
This video tutorial focuses on the popular open source blogging platform, WordPress. In this video, I show you the ropes of the WordPress platform: how to add and edit new posts, and some of the basic features of blogs.
Pole vaulting and your social media strategy
Whenever I am about to try something scary (like, really scary) I use the analogy with my teacher, coach, employer… “It’s like pole vaulting to me.” I do NOT understand the margin of error in pole vaulting. You are either gracefully over the pole on a safe mat, or your face is ground into the…
Yahoo! and Microsoft Combining Forces to be One Step Closer to Google Domination
A deal between the 2nd and 3rd place search engines has finally been confirmed and is reported to close in early 2010. Microsoft and Yahoo!, who have been in talks since early 2009 after Microsoft’s failed attempt to buy Yahoo! last year, are teaming up to try and chip away at Google’s market share. What…