Debra on March 24th, 2010

Hi, I am Debra Oakland. With all the competition out there, it can be hard to keep up.  The world of technology is changing daily. How do you keep up?  What are other people in the marketplace doing?  How does social media play into it all?  To answer some of these questions, I would like [...]

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Okay, so Ivy Bean is 104 years old!  Come on, and you don’t want to Facebook or Twitter?  Social Media is the way we connect now and will be the way we connect in the future.  Of course we will have wonderful personal relationships like always.  I can’t begin to tell you of all the [...]

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Want to Subscribe? Sign In or Sign Up now! I wanted to share with you – your future.  Innovation that has and will change the world we work, live and play in. At the Wharton Business Technology Conference, Microsoft unveiled the latest vision video from their Microsoft Office Labs called 2019. The video shows an [...]

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Debra on July 2nd, 2009

I greatly admire Gary Vaynerchuk. The video below is a talk he gave called Scaling Caring. Gary is always entertaining, but cuts through the crap and gets his message to the people with humor and great caring. He talks about quality interactions with people, business, Twitter, caring, and being authentic. These are Gary’s words “This [...]

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Debra on May 16th, 2009

I hear people in restaurants talking about Twitter, friends and family asking questions about it’s uses. Twitter is chatted up on television crime dramas, comedies, news, tabloids, the presidential campaign, sporting events and even hospitals teach using Twitter during surgery.  It’s everywhere and growing. I have been using Twitter almost a year and have met [...]

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Debra on April 23rd, 2009

Sometimes we just have to have fun.  In honor of Facebook and all fun videos on social networking I give you a look at Facebook do’s and don’ts in a very nostalgic way. I thoroughly enjoyed “Facebook Manners” with Timmy and Alice. There are many rules of etiquette for social networking and some seem to [...]

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Debra on March 30th, 2009

As you know there has been some controversy over Facebook of late.  The young man Mark Zuckerberg, who if the face behind  Facebook is being interviewed in the video below by Matt Lauer. I won’t go into the details which are in the video.  I just wanted to put my 2 cents in on the [...]

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I have a Twitter friend Rex Harris who wrote the article below.  I am posting it for you because it contains a golden nugget of information that could change the way you do business. The best form of marketing is Viral Marketing.  Have you ever been to a restaurant that served you one of the [...]

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Debra on February 19th, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy unique people, courageous people who think outside the box. Gary Vaynerchuk is that person. I met Gary on Twitter through my friend Jonathon Gunson – feel free to visit Jonathan’s trafficcafetv for a new website traffic tip each day. This video of Gary V. at the [...]

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Debra on February 16th, 2009

Marketing can be tricky.  Have you heard of Twitter & Facebook?  Just two of the many Social Networking Sites that are hot right now.  I get excited when I see the power and influence they have on business.  Any business can benefit from this type of online marketing.  It is worth the time invested to [...]

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