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December, 2008

If you’re seriously thinking about trying Google Apps for your domain, here are some first-steps for starting a Pilot group…

Bloggers develop a following through the quality, frequency and relevance of their content. They help us learn something new, debate an issue, find related content and form …More...

Move over ceramic piggy bank. SmartyPig wants to change the way 20- to 30-year-olds save money using an online savings account with built in social networking functions. …More...

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: predictions 2009) This is the second in a series of key consumer/marketing trend presentations from the team at TrendsSpotting. …More...

It probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone running a business these days that information overload can cause a huge loss in productivity. In fact, Basex …More...

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0social) The team at TrendsSpotting is highlighting some key consumer trends this week. Their first effort, featured above, …More...

With the closing of another year just around the corner, many companies are turning their attention to analyzing their performance in 2008. For most companies this goes …More...

SD West 2009, one of the country’s premier platform independent software development conferences, is once again offering a track that is near and dear to my heart.  …More...

Many businesses use videos to help market a product or service, and while a lot of them execute the use of video well, there are some that …More...

If you’ve ever wondered where creative juice comes from, here’s the answer. I ordered a case of the Bristol Blue. Higher quality video here. Thanks to …More...

They’re here to sing all your holiday favorites. Give them a try!

Could Facebook advertising be for small businesses too?  If you’re living on Planet Earth these days, you’re no doubt hearing about Facebook’s explosive growth and how anybody …More...

In a recent webinar, Jamie Turner, editor of The 60 Second Marketer, gave tips and suggestions on how to use LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to grow …More...

Excitement in the world of marketing always seems like it is attached to the latest and greatest. I call it the-next-new-thing syndrome. Social media has everyone’s ear …More...

Sound has always fascinated me, well before the days of Dolby 5.1 surround.  A well-crafted audio track can do more to liven up the screen than the …More...

One of my all time favorite quotes comes from Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates.  “Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal …More...

Lights! Camera! Money! Never underestimate American ingenuity when it comes to finding new ways of making money. According to this article in the New York Times, some …More...

Do you ChaCha? Now, I’m not referring to a dance move, but instead the fastest growing text-based mobile search service. ChaCha is currently surpassing both Google and …More...

Just a quick blog today to address an issue that I have been encountered several times since I began programming in Apex, the proprietary language for Salesforce.com.  …More...

In spite of a challenging economy, one-third of B-to-B marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2009, while only 25 percent plan budget cuts. That is the …More...

The Chicago Tribune files for bankruptcy. This could be the tip of the iceberg when you read news of revenue declines like this. 4:14PM CST – More …More...

While certain media such as broadcast television still reaches a substantial audience, the question that needs to be asked: Is it worth it?” In many cases, that …More...

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google strategy) A great look into what makes Google’s revenue engine run. According to faberNovel, Google’s revenue will grow …More...

It appears to me the mere fact that the Big 3 Detroit automakers had to appear before Congress to ask for billions and answer questions about possible …More...

One of the relatively recent additions to the Force.com platform was the ability to make calls to asynchronous methods from Apex classes.  By using the @future (callout=true) …More...

When talking with the head of our Customer Experience initiative, he made a passing comment about the results of a recent Sundog customer satisfaction survey. Those with …More...

For the past few months, we here at Sundog have been evaluating the migration of our messaging platform from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps Premier. Having …More...

Everyone takes a shortcut now and then when developing code.  We shouldn’t, and we know it, but sometimes we do anyways.  I am guilty of it as …More...

Today is Cyber Monday, the online equivalent to the more traditional shopping day of Black Friday. Maybe it is just me, but they sound like such dire …More...

Click to enlarge More on the diagram above here. Sure, Tom Cunniff’s collage is messy, but it represents a marketing environment that is growing increasingly complicated. …More...



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