Insight: Networking and Public Relations

Networking and Public Relations are very similar. Public relations, also known as PR, is about learning to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public. You have to learn methods in being active in order to have the degree of success you are trying to obtain in order to achieve relationships with the public. In a new or existing business, you want people to learn about your business so that you and your business can grow. Public relations, does just that; it takes your business, it networks it into the public eye and it gets your name out there with all the others. Networking, gets your name out there, in today’s society there are so many different ways to network, there are networking meetings, functions, parties, and social media. Social media is one Read more…

Sent Your Next Great Idea To Kickstarter? It May Not Be Safe!

Kickstarter recently helped the Pebble earn over $10 million. With numbers like that popping up for new inventions, film projects, and the like, why not give Kickstarter a chance to fund your great idea, right? Well, the main drawback now will be that Kickstarter isn’t as secure as they thought. A bug in the site exposed over 70,000 unlaunched projects over the weekend.

The company says that only 48 projects were accessed out of those exposed, but that can hardly be a comfort to those people that are proud facilitators of these projects. What if their idea is taken by someone now and launched before they have the chance? Sure, they may win Read more…

The Pebble: Most funded project in Kickstarter History

The Pebble Watch still has seven days to raise money, but all of their watches have sold out. Interested parties can now donate a dollar to become a backer and stay informed with updates from the project. The original goal was $100,000 but as of now, they have raised $10,173,445. This makes it the most funded project in Kickstarter history.

If you’re unaware of what the Pebble is, it’s basically a watch that you can sync to your iPhone or Android Smartphone. The Pebble will be water-resistant, scratchproof, and Read more…

Social Media Timing: Are you getting the most out of Facebook and Twitter?

For a long time, many people felt that as long as you posted to Facebook and Twitter as often as possible, you were doing your due diligence in regards to social media for your business. However, as the social media community becomes more and more inundated with an overabundance of communication from different companies, it is no longer about how much you post, but when you do.

According to new data released by bit.ly, the tracking and link shortening service, there are different times and days that are the best and worst times to post on Facebook and Twitter, in regards to reaching the most people. Twitter, for example, Read more…

Doodle 4 Google: Miami Student is a Finalist!

Google’s annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest is coming into its final stages, and a Miami teen has been named one of the state winners. This year’s there was “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…”

More than 114,000 students from grades K-12 turned in submissions to the contest this year. A senior at Coral Reef Senior High, Walker Paulson, was one of the lucky 50 state winners. There were 250 state finalists, and the 50 state winners can now be voted for here. Voting will be open from May 2, 2012 through May 10, 2012 and will help narrow down the top 50 to 5 national finalists. Google will choose the overall winner. Read more…

Yahoo! To Start Aiding Small Business with Online Marketing

On May 2, 2012, Yahoo! Small Business launched a new marketing tool for businesses called the Marketing Dashboard. This tool should prove to be a great resource for small businesses looking to enhance, create or improve their online presence. Theoretically, the tool should help them discover the marketing opportunities they were missing out on and how they can control and improve how they are seen online. Read more…

Tumblr succumbs to advertisements… but they don’t see it that way.

Tumblr has become one of the most popular blogging sites. Quick, timely posts and photos can be “(s)Tumbled upon” to learn more, and let’s face it, kill some time, at any given moment of the day. One thing users relished in was the lack of advertisements, however, those days are now over. Tumblr is referring to the new advertisers as “sponsors” but it seems to most that this is just a fancy way to distract people from the fact that Tumblr is, as most free social media sites have become as well, just another online billboard. Read more…

Teacher-Student Interaction on Social Networking Sites: Yay or Nay?

A good friend of mine who has been a teacher for many years has kept the entirety of his social media sites super private, and eventually, after some of his students found him anyway, he deleted them. However, I have another friend who consistently uses her Facebook and Twitter pages to interact with her students. Both have expressed that their decision is the right one. I, myself, am a bit on the fence about this one. The New York City Department of Education, however, has clearly chosen a side now, as they have decided to ban student-teacher interaction on all social media. Read more…

Helpful or Harmful? Timing Tweets and Facebook Posts

If you have a business that participates in social media marketing, you may have thought at one point or another, “Wouldn’t it be great if I could just sit down and schedule all my Tweets & Facebook updates for the times of day when those sites see the most traffic?” Well, you would not be the first person to have this idea. There are several companies working toward facilitating this such as Adobe Social, Wildfire, BuddyMedia, Webtrends Social, and Bazaarvoice.

These companies focus mostly on creating software tools that “analyze, plan, deliver, and measure media such as ads, content, and conversations published in Read more…

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery… Right?

We here at Miami Web Design Pro don’t like to fight dirty. We already know we’re awesome. Sadly, others don’t share our sentiment. While we won’t start the fight, we are not above finishing it.

While the old saying “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” holds true in many situations, Web Design is not one of them. And today we found our doppelganger in a Canadian company that even copied our “About Us” page word-for-word. Really Soo Digital? Too lazy to even change the content enough so we wouldn’t find out? Tsk, tsk. Read more…

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