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Great Social Media advice from an unexpected source - the CDC.

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This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Mobile March in the Twin Cities.  During the conference, I attended a four hour long Microsoft Windows Phone training session.  My reasoning for attending this session was to learn more about a platform I have little experience in.

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Much has been made of the Panda search algorithm update, implemented by Google in February 2011, with several additional updates over the past year. Panda was created to devalue low quality content in search rankings. 

 

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As with any great sports program or any great company, a winning tradition is built over time and developing leaders isn’t something that happens by accident.

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Pedal to the metal – that’s the speed of marketing change over the last five years. Anyone in marketing, who doesn’t spend a considerable amount of time each day, week, and month learning and applying how marketing is changing, is planning an exit strategy whether they know it or not.

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Previous Blog Entries Posted in Education-Training

June 01, 2010 | Greg Ness: The World Needs More Creativity

The physical world and business world face increasingly complex problems, and it is going to take a creativity revolution to solve them. But how do we …More...

January 04, 2010 | Lee Schwartz: School Alumni Foundations vs. Facebook

Alumni foundations used to have it good. Sure, it wasn’t always easy keeping track of alumni through their various moves and careers, but for a long time …More...

August 11, 2008 | Sara Litton: E-Textbooks Coming To A College Laptop Near You

The class of 2012 appears to be the largest class of students to hit the college scene. This fall, they will be making their presence known nationwide …More...

February 10, 2008 | Greg Ness: You’ve Been Accepted To MIT, the University of Notre Dame, and Tokyo Institute of Technology

Over a year ago I posted here about an outstanding free public educational resource called the Open Courseware Consortium. A story on Wise Bread recently made me …More...

November 06, 2007 | Sarah VanNevel: FEMA News Conference Disaster Teaches Valuable PR Lesson

Unless you’ve been out of the country recently, chances are you’ve heard about the fake news conference held by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) public affairs …More...

October 29, 2007 | Greg Ness: SCADshorts Featured Content On YouTube

Here’s a reminder to visit SCADshorts and enter to win an iPod. I’ve posted about SCADshorts before, so I’ll let the site do the talkin’. SCADshorts was …More...

September 10, 2007 | Sarah VanNevel: Colleges Get Creative with Recruiting Ads

Now that Labor Day has passed, students across the nation are back in school, cracking open new (and expensive) textbooks. Classes at the University of Minnesota (where …More...

April 11, 2007 | Dean Froslie: Universities Tackle Student-Athlete Use of Social Networking Sites

In the high-stakes world of college sports, new scandals and public relations nightmares continually emerge. Now a new online twist has surfaced: how to address less-than-flattering posts …More...