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Making Shopping Social

By Carley Knobloch
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Long gone are the days when you might walk into a department store and be excited to see a big sale.  Given the Internet and how tech-savvy all of the major retail brands have become, it’s easy to find out …

Find Great Photos Using Creative Commons

By Carley Knobloch
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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. This much is certainly true: There’s nothing like a few gorgeous pictures to add some extra oomph to your latest article or blog post. But with the huge surge in …

There’s No Escaping Technology, Is There?

By Carley Knobloch
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The huge buzz around Google’s augmented reality Google Glasses project last month — the one that features crazy sophisticated glasses that display all sorts of information about your environment in everyday situations — led me to a startling realization: We …

Surefire Ways to Turn Your Followers Away

By Carley Knobloch
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If you’re on Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network, you have probably run across people with annoying egos and their relentless stream of tweets or updates. There are people who think they’re an “expert” at anything (or everything) and …

What Makes Something Go Viral?

By Carley Knobloch
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you knew how to make your videos spread like wildfire? How to effortlessly create that special “OMG, you have to see this!” factor?  Yes, you (and everyone else) would love to have that magic formula, …

Automate Social Media and Enjoy the Summer

By Carley Knobloch
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Summer is officially in full swing, which, I hope, means long sunny days, trips to the beach, fruity drinks, and…Twitter updates?  Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks have become all-consuming in our lives, but being enslaved to our updates, …

Crowdsourced Cooking: Too Many Chefs is a Good Thing

By Carley Knobloch
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The rise of celebrity chefs and the “it” factor of cuisines from all over the world (Peruvian is in), not to mention food fads (gluten-free! dairy-free! soy-free!), has created an entire world of social eating, cooking and recipe-sharing online. Foodies …

The Golden Rules of Internet Security

By Carley Knobloch
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When a security breach results in millions of stolen passwords–as it recently did at well-established companies like LinkedIn and eHarmony, two questions come immediately to mind: 1) How could this happen, and 2) Was my information compromised? The reality of …

Use Hashtags to Get People Talking

By Carley Knobloch
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You can see how deeply the Internet has affected us by observing how dexterously we have turned popular websites into everyday verbiage – just think “googling” and “friending,” for example. Another term you’ve probably heard lately is “hashtagging.” (Thanks, Twitter.) …

You Can Quote Me: How to Avoid Plagiarizing Someone Online

By Carley Knobloch
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With the sheer amount of data online and the ability to share it with a click, the expression, “give credit where credit is due,” is becoming a critical tenet of online content creation.  The Internet makes it easy for anyone …