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How to create a YouTube channel for your business
Want to reach millions – even billions of people with your unique video content? Look no further than YouTube: the Internet’s source for everything from cat videos to social business seminars. Over 4 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every day, and more than a million businesses are cashing in on the network’s advertising resources. How To Create a YouTube Channel If you’re a social marketer looking to get started on YouTube, here’s how to create your free channel: 1. Create a Google Account: YouTube is part of the Google empire, so you’ll first […]
TrainSignal IT Survival Kit Giveaway
July 17, 2013 in Events, Tech
If you have been living under a rock and are not familiar with TrainSignal, they are a training company that solves the problem of subpar training. As an IT professional there is surely a course that would meet your needs. One of things I love about TrainSignal is how supportive they are of the community. They showed that support again this year and awarded each of the vExperts a year of free training! I am really excited about this and plan to take full advantage of this offer. One thing […]
Hyper-V Live Migration with the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
July 10, 2013 in Tech, Virtualization
As most of you know we recently launched one of the most exciting products of the year (I think), the Dell PowerEdge VRTX. Upon launch of VRTX there were a lot of questions that we saw online. One of the questions we heard most was “Does it truly have “Shared Storage”. To answer this Lance and I sat down in the lab and set up a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster to see how the unit would perform during a live migration. In the coming weeks you can look for more detailed […]
How social media supports IT mastery
July 9, 2013 in Social Media, Tech
A common problem for both large and small organizations is ensuring all processes related to IT run smoothly and remain up to date. While social media is oftentimes thought of as purely a channel for marketing, the truth is that your IT professionals can maximize their impact by leveraging the information found in these networks. Here are just five of the ways: 1. Curate Volumes of Information in Record Time Gone are the days of searching painfully through hundreds of search engine results. Now you can curate exactly the information […]
My Faith Restored in Ford and Ford Service
July 3, 2013 in Auto, Non-Tech
If you aren’t aware of what has been going on with me and Ford service, you may want to catch up here. Fast forward to yesterday when I received a call from the general manager of Mac Haik, Mike Winoc. He first wanted to address the issue of him not replying to my initial email, to which was not his fault as it was filtered by his admin and she directed to the service manager so they could assist. Now as I was talking to Mike the thing that I […]
My Issue with Ford Service
June 28, 2013 in Auto, Non-Tech
I purchased a 2010 Platinum F150 4×4 from Mac Haik Ford Georgetown in April of 2010. Now, when my extended warranty started to come to an end I decided I wanted to purchase and extended warranty and keep my truck under warranty for as long as possible. This is when I talked to one of the finance managers. He was very helpful and help me with purchasing an extended premium warranty for an additional 3 years and 75k miles….or so I thought. Apparently what I purchased was a 3 year […]
5 free social media tools for 5 types of business needs
June 14, 2013 in Uncategorized
Social media tools are critical in helping brands efficiently and effectively manage the conversations taking place around their content. Making sense of the data available to you and gleaning insights from it will allow your social media campaign to come full circle, aligning with your business needs and helping you achieve your goals. There are literally hundreds of social media tools available, but chances are just a few will suit your particular needs. Altimeter Group has very handily segmented social media tools according to five use cases and here, we […]
Nokia Lumia 920 Camera Review
June 12, 2013 in Uncategorized
Finally after getting back from vacation I have a little time to actually play with this Nokia 920. Since the camera is said to be one of the best on the market we will start with it. It is equipped with an 8.7 MP camera with a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens. It also sports a fast maximum aperture of f/2. Combine that with a 4.5-inch WXGA LCD touchscreen with Touch AF, a built-in flash, and Geotagging and you have a nice set of features. Nokia’s site list the main camera features as […]
Hands on with the Nokia Lumia 920–First Impressions
So a few weeks ago I jokingly sent a tweet out to Nokia asking if I could “test” one of there devices. Within the hour John (at Nokia) responded and pointed me to a form to fill out. So I entered my information and what I would like to test on the phone and hit submit. @dennismsmith @nokia OK big boy, give it a shot! conversations.nokia.com/trial-a-nokia/ — John Pope (@JohnatNokia) May 22, 2013 Now, I have filled a lot of these forms out for many different products so […]
Optimize Social Content to Boost Website Traffic: Tips from Feeding America
Businesses of all sizes – from small retailers to large, multi-national corporations – are looking for ways to increase traffic to their websites through social media. Real-time, highly mobile channels such as Twitter are uniquely qualified to convert users to customers, by enabling marketers to use a wide range of popular topics to gain visibility and sales. Here’s the tricky part, though: how do you align social and web content to help prospects find your website and take the next step in their journey to becoming a customer? Third-party analytics, used correctly, […]