Most people can’t afford to pay a secretary’s salary, but they certainly need something filling that role. Without help, it’s amazing that meetings ever get met and deals ever get dealt. Before you fall behind, check out these 6 apps that can turn your smartphone into your secretary… just without that weekly check.
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The concept of cloud storage is nice, but consumers need to stay vigilant if they want to completely protect their data. There are plenty of ways that a cloud storage provider can fail, and that could leave you without your critical data if you do not take the proper precautions.
Accessing the Internet and social networking sites via smart phones has only been increasing since it’s inception. Mobile users are starting to account for more and more time spent accessing social media, all thanks to smart phone features that make it fast and easy to connect where ever you are. Apps like Instagram (now owned by Facebook, and ranked more popular than Twitter for mobile users) have changed the way brands are designing the latest mobile handsets, and how they organize the user interface.
How do you build trust with clients when people have lost their faith in the markets – and advisors, too?
And how do you stand out from the pack when investors can go online and find dozens or even hundreds of advisors from whom to choose, not to mention the Fidelitys and ScottTrades of the world?
This article was written by Professor Enrico Moretti (above) of the University of California, Berkeley. This article originally printed on TheFinancialist.com and has been re-published on Pulse2 with permission.
Over the past three months, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have lost between 33% and 52% of their market value. They are not alone. Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’. Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs?
Digital marketing, including social media, video, interactive, augmented reality, installations, mobile and integrated TV campaigns will be much better off once marketing executives can get out of their own way. From approval by committee, to passing the buck, to CYA (cover your ass), marketing executives are slowing down and in some cases killing the growth of digital marketing. Sure, there are the shining examples we all know and rave about, but for every Old Spice Guy campaign that gets the green light, there are hundreds of other big ideas being suffocated into extinction by a slow-moving parade of politically correct executives that know they should pull the trigger but have to be careful the gun isn’t aimed squarely at them.
Google’s futuristic technology development lab has revealed its latest creation and innovation in advanced communication technology called “Project Glass.” Google glasses developed a program that is indeed useful through augmented reality.
Guest Author Bio: Vikash Shah is a Twitter hashtag fiend that recently started hashtagd. A website dedicated to being the “reality TV trash of Twitter”. When he isn’t infront of a computer he is either; tearing up the dance floor, eating more food than is adequate or reading about economics. You can follow him at @vikashnshah.
For three days Eastern Market, a vibrant marketplace in downtown Detroit, was transformed into the epicenter of Tech Socialites. Hundreds of attendees including seasoned marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and digital creators. The marketing professionals frantically wrote notes in hopes to better understand the role of social in the new age of media. The venture Capitalists could be identified as the only attendees wearing either Dockers or suits. Digital creators swarmed around conference speakers to thank them for their work in their field. And entrepreneurs showed off their pride and joy.
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