Author: Erin Ryan

A blog is a place where you express your thoughts, opinions or provide tips, suggestions or editorials much like this article. Allowing readers (a.k.a your community) an opportunity to respond is vital since their voice should matter to you as the writer. Although it is necessary for you to enable the ability for your blog community to have the option to participate in responding to your articles or not, the debatable question is often should you moderate comments on your blog? …

Klout is our standard arena to where we look to have our social media efforts analyzed and as we already reported its latest changes to its algorithm and look, it is only fitting to keep you informed on the upcoming update to Klout Perks. If you are unfamiliar of what Klout Perks are, you have been missing out my friend, since this is Klout’s rewarding system due to subjects you are influential in which is gathered from Twitter and from the +K’s received by peers. …

Move over Groupon, Facebook has jumped on the discount train by enabling businesses to create what they are calling “offers” for people who have “liked” their page. This new feature is a promotional link of helping fill the gap from online to in store by simply enticing your online community with an offer they can’t refuse and will help you turn that same community into an offline one as well. …

Imagine a glorified StumbleUpon where you choose selective interests that you wish to learn more about and due to your choices you are then able to join a “classroom” to learn via video more about subjects you enjoy due to your selections. Let me introduce to you, the online interest based free educational service known as Grovo. It is the very first of its kind, as it is the one and only centralized platform for Internet education and training. Such training includes social media, productivity and online marketing, with teachings that include Facebook profile, advertising and pages, Google…

The social bookmarking site, StumbleUpon has been working diligently to improve its site for its users. Already they have released new features on the site in the UK, features like personalized suggestions as you stumble and updates for their mobile app on the iPhone and Android. Due to these changes, StumbleUpon has updated their Terms of Service (TOS) which will cover the new features and hopefully be more transparent for their users to easily understand. …

Ever watched a science fiction television show or movie and suddenly wished all the futuristic gadgets being portrayed were real? You may be surprised as to how many of the gadgets you see in sci-fi entertainment that emulates ones that exist. Such gadgets like the underwater car like the one James Bond had and a Jetpack similar to the one from the Jetsons cartoon. The futuristic gadgets you dreamed of as a kid are actually in existence, who knew the future would be now? …

Are you an Apple fanboy or girl? Do you own an iPod, iPad, Apple TV or Mac? Do you agree with Apple suing everything under the sun or do you have a love hate relationship with your electronic fruit? …

How have Tech companies pivoted within its History? An idea must begin somewhere to have abilities to branch out into something else (although Apple may not agree). Evolution stems from a single idea that has room for growth and therefore enabling other startups to birth themselves within the industry. Some sites and services find their moment while others need to pivot, either way there is always a point in every successful moment when this happens. …

The dance world is a blazed with this latest dance craze known as the Gangnam Style with yet another YouTuber taking the world by storm, no, this time it’s not Justin Bieber or Lil’ Wanye, this time someone who we can relate to a little more has gone viral and has caught the attention of celebrities, having them tweet and even inviting them to their daytime show, like Ellen did. …

Some of you may already be familiar with Google Drive since it has been available to try and accessible as an app on Android. However, for the rest of us, we remain curious as to what will happen to our Google Documents once Google Drive takes effect. Of course certain small changes will occur such as documents at the header will show up as “drive” and your created and shared documents will be separated indicating ownerships and updates on the right-hand side with the added feature of avatars. …