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Republishing Posts Without Ruffling Feathers
The Internet’s full of freely available blog posts and articles. And while this content may be free to read, it’s not necessarily free to repost on your website. In fact, it’s best to assume that it’s not free to repost. And while some blog writers may be flattered that you consider their blog post worth […]
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Around the Office: Fostering Innovation, Unwanted Beauty Pageants, and Dazzling Kinetic Art
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Sowing the Seeds of Innovation Andy was intrigued with an education theory put forth by Harvard technology and entrepreneurship expert Tony Wagner that emphasizes skill development and motivation. Wagner says this […]
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Around the Office: Social Content Curation, Agile Marketing, Monday Spoilers, More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Curation Creates Scarcity from a Deluge of Online Content As a prolific creator of content, David was interested in the idea of social curation as reshaping the digital landscape (and even […]
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Around the Office: The Value of Boredom, Aphasia-Friendly Websites, & the Offline Masses
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Entertaining Ourselves Away From Creativity While it offers some entertainment in downtime, Daveed is a little worried his iPhone could be zapping his creativity. There’s a growing body of evidence to […]
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Around the Office: Oversharing Habits, Rethinking Remixes, & Google’s Noteworthy New Service
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Teaching Teens to Respect Their Own Privacy The emergence of social media, video, texts, audio, email and documents have contributed to a veritable explosion of Big Data. And while there’s no […]
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Around the Office: Facebook “Likes” Give Us Away, Google Reader to Close, More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Inferring Who We Are from our Facebook “Likes” Daveed was curious what Facebook knows about him after finding out that Facebook “likes” can accurately infer race, IQ, sexuality, personality and political […]
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Around the Office: Social Business, Content Marketing, 3-D Drawing, & More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. The Social Business Revolution Daveed, like Internet Evolution Editor-in-Chief Mitch Wagner, thinks the idea of social business holds tremendous possibilities and is just getting started. Instead of simply using social networks to find new customers, […]
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Creating a Brand Online: Choosing a Creative Agency for Your Website
Trying to understand how your small business can become online friendly? This is the second article in our series “Creating a Brand Online”, where we provide straightforward advice for your small business as you create your online brand. Looking for an agency to design and develop your website is thought of as a stressful decision, but […]
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Around the Office: QR Codes; Strategizing Facebook Graph Search; Opera’s Next Act, & More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. QR Codes on the Menu Caroline was inspired by the possibilities of QR codes when hearing about a sushi shop wraps their rolls with QR codes. Diners at Britain’s Moshi Moshi […]
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Digital Marketing Trend: The Brand Film
Eschewing the restrictions of a slick, 30-second TV spot, brand films have emerged as a tasteful and compelling way to show what a brand is about. In contrast to a more straightforward commercial, a brand film can be thought of as a merging of a filmmaker’s vision and a brand’s core idea. Ideally, it bridges the […]