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  • Around the Office: Social media not cause for riot, a look at remarketing, more

    Around the Office: Social media not cause for riot, a look at remarketing, 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. We’ve been hearing a lot this week about the riots in London. Daveed found it interesting that the British Prime Minister David Cameron is quick to […]

  • Top Ten Checklist for Email Blasts

    We’ve been writing about the benefits of email marketing on Online Friendly, and we wanted to share some tips that will help your organization’s email campaign go well. Thinking about sending out an email blast for the first time or want to improve your existing efforts? We put together this checklist to give you a good […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Around the Office: hands-on with Kohana, picture sharing with DailyBooth, and more

    Around the Office: hands-on with Kohana, picture sharing with DailyBooth, and 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. Roberto had a very good first impression of PHP5 framework Kohana, and actually liked its modules for database interactivity and cookies. With its basic template system, simple installation, […]