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Understanding the new Facebook Timeline

Understanding the new Facebook Timeline

| December 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

The new Facebook timeline is taking New Zealand by storm, and is due to be released to the rest of the world later this week. If you need a little revision on the ‘tour’, or are finding it a bit confusing, here is a basic rundown on what the features are and how they work. [...]

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September 2011 Security Updates – Microsoft Video

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Google Apps Update: Changing the way alternate email addresses work for Google Calendar

Google Apps Update: Changing the way alternate email addresses work for Google Calendar

The way you receive Google Calendar invitations sent to email addresses associated with your Google Account account has changed. Before, if you had an alternate email address associated with a Google Account, an invitation sent by another Google Calendar user might have reached only your Google Account address. For example, let’s say your Gmail address [...]

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What is SEO – Understanding Email Marketing & How to use Email Newsletters to get conversions

What is SEO – Understanding Email Marketing & How to use Email Newsletters to get conversions

Email newsletters to clients can be a very powerful and effective form of marketing in your business when done right with the right tools and strategy.
There are three fundamental concepts towards creating an effective email newsletter which, when used correctly, can greatly benefit the reason you spent the time to write the email in the first place. After all we want some level of ROI on time or money spent in our marketing efforts.

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The effectiveness of Kiwi website marketing – Have your say

I have often been surprised at how many kiwi business websites accidentally get traffic and subsequently sales or leads from online inquiries. More often than not it comes from the fact that New Zealand competition is not overly heavy and perhaps Kiwis search a little bit deeper. (Just my humble opinion). Talking to many business [...]

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Social Media Revolution 2011 – featured at Shannon Wrigley Accountants

Social Media Revolution 2011 – featured at Shannon Wrigley Accountants

At a workshop I co presented with Geordie from WebPackages in Cambridge earlier this morning I watched this short YouTube video which was based from part of the world’s most watched Social Media video series; “Social Media Revolution” by Erik Qualman.  This quick video includes social media statistics for 2011. Jon Broadley, Business Advisory Services Manager for [...]

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2Degrees Mobile settings to restore your iPhone personal hotspot after moving to 2 Degrees

Have you recently switched over to 2 Degrees Mobile with your iPhone and suddenly found that your Personal Hotspot setting has disappeared from the settings? Well the iPhone Personal Hotspot settings is what we call Carrier Specific so what that means is that when you move from Vodafone your Carrier settings change. Trouble is that [...]

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New Zealand iPhone carrier settings – 2 Degrees, Vodafone & Telecom

2Degrees Mobile Data – 2degrees iPhone APN Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network APN: internet Picture Messaging- 2degrees iPhone MMS Settings Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network APN: mms MMSC: http://mms.2degreesmobile.net.nz:48090 MMS Proxy: 118.148.1.118:8080 MMS Max Message Size: 614400 Tethering – 2degrees iPhone APN Settings > General > Network [...]

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Keyword Analysis, the foundation of your keyword strategy and your overall online marketing strategy

keyword Analysis is the first step in any keyword optimization of your website, commonly referred to as On Page optimization. When looking at keyword analysis there are a couple of things that need to be taken into consideration the first being what are potential customers typing into search engines and secondly how much online competition [...]

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SLR mount for iPhone – Mount your Nikon or Canon SLR lenses to your iPhone

SLR mount for iPhone – Mount your Nikon or Canon SLR lenses to your iPhone

The iPhone 4 has a great camera on it but despite the apps available in the app store its not a DSLR, sure you can get filters that simulate some pretty neat things but it’s not the real deal… Until now. The iPhone SLR Mount from http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/iphone-slr-mount/gives you the real thing. With a clever case [...]

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