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  • Around the Office: Android’s patent angst, TechCrunch’s smart design, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Daveed has been intrigued by a Google blog post on the apparently “hostile, organized campaign against Android” by a coalition including Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and others.…

  • Advantages of using an email marketing service for your campaign

    Last week, we wrote about the purposes of email marketing, as well as some of the advantages it has over other forms of marketing such as social media. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the advantages of using online services to managing your email marketing campaign. What you want for your…

  • Around the Office: Google’s Page Speed Service, Microsoft’s “open surface”, more

    Around the Office: Google’s Page Speed Service, Microsoft’s “open surface”, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. On Thursday, Google launched a service that automatically speeds your webpage load times. This new service, known as Page Speed Service, fetches content from your servers,…

  • What email marketing can offer your business

    The idea of “email marketing” can seem intimidating, but it can be thought of as a form of direct marketing like traditional mail. Instead of using the postal service, however, it uses email to send your commercial or non-profit messages to an audience. Various marketing email types sent out include email newsletters, quick announcements (also…

  • Around the Office: the Web’s best design seen on Awwwards, websites go 3D, more

    Around the Office: the Web’s best design seen on Awwwards, websites go 3D, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Eva finds design inspiration all over the Web, but she can always count on the Awwwards website to showcase the world’s top css websites daily. Selected…

  • Around the Office: Evaluating Google+, On the hunt for chocolate, more

    Around the Office: Evaluating Google+, On the hunt for chocolate, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Daveed has been playing with Google’s latest foray into social networking, Google+. And eventhough the much-hyped social network is very similar to the incumbent Facebook, Daveed…

  • Around the Office: Twitter town hall, Tilt-shifting the classics, more

    Around the Office: Twitter town hall, Tilt-shifting the classics, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. This week, US President Barack Obama answered questions on the economy and jobs in his first Twitter town hall. Obama’s use of contemporary media has been cleverly…

  • Voice Empowerment

    Voice Empowerment

    The site was created using the WordPress Content Management System, which lets site administrators quickly and easily make changes to site content through a Web-based control panel.

  • Around the Office: Firefox personas, mobile’s effect on design, more

    Around the Office: Firefox personas, mobile’s effect on design, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent and Eva have been playing with Firefox personas, which are easy-to-use themes that let you personalize the look of your browser. They’ve creating some excellent…

  • Around the Office: Free plugins pay off, App shows nearby pics, FTP war, more

    Around the Office: Free plugins pay off, App shows nearby pics, FTP war, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Wayne did some sleuthing this week to find out why someone would create a website widget for free. The reason: inbound links. A great number of…

  • Are you stopping visitors from commenting?

    Are you stopping visitors from commenting?

    Blog comments are something that you should typically encourage because they give readers a chance to participate in the conversation. Comments give readers the opportunity to relate their experiences, offer their point of view, and provide related information. This interaction within the blog can help to expand the original blog post, sometimes giving it a…

  • Around the Office: Facebook loses face; airplane cell phone bans are serious

    Around the Office: Facebook loses face; airplane cell phone bans are serious

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. While he’s still among the site’s 687 million users, Daveed has been thinking about the millions of Facebook users logging off for good, especially in Canada…

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