Published by: Jason Ciment on 08-24-2012
Friendships. They are connections that can last lifetimes and have the ability to group people that under different circumstances may have never crossed paths. Not only due friendships suit the individuals in them, they have shown to be a great source for grouped consumers in a similar path. This is why social media suits both users and advertisers so well: they work together, not separately. The folks here at LADezign are always looking for new ways to promote companies through social media and friend networks.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 08-03-2012
It has been a long time since Gmail has had competition in the decent free email browser game, but that day has come. Microsoft will launch a new version of Hotmail, Outlook.com and everyone is talking about what it will offer, and for good reason. From what we can tell, it looks to be a modernized email system that most experts are predicting will catch on with email users like wildfire. So much so, in fact, that many are suggesting that you quickly register your name with Outlook.com, or else you could miss out on the next big thing in email. So what makes it so great? Let's take a look.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 07-13-2012
Every business owner with a website knows about Google Analytics. Some like it, some have issues. For the most part there are ups and downs to Google Analytics. The plus side is that you'll get accurate results, seeing as they're from, you know, Google itself. The problem is that relying on Google Analytics is also relying on as much information as Google is willing to give. For many business owners, this has become a problem. In some ways you can't blame Google, because if you give away too much information, you lose the reason for paid searches. Free milk, buying the cow and all that.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 05-25-2012
This week, Yahoo released their brand new web browser extension and, short of some hiccups, has already received rave reviews. Does it live up to the hype? We took a first look and made a list of our own personal thoughts as well as what this new browser might change about web design.
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Published by: Jason Ciment on 04-13-2012
What are your most effective strategies for managing your time and helping your colleagues and employees to manage theirs? If this is something you haven't really thought about in terms of revising your work tactics for improved efficiency, it might just be because you don't have a reliable way to track the time devoted to various tasks and projects on given days. After all, variables like unexpected calls, meetings, minor emergencies, and other distractions make it difficult to gauge how much time a particular task takes up. Why fixate on watching a clock when a nice piece of freeware like Grindstone will do it for your workplace?
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