The Future of Content Curation and Aggregation

by Nate Devore Blogging
The Future of Content Curation and Aggregation

Content curation has become a nice buzzword in the last year or so. Two guys who know a lot about the future of media and where it might be heading discuss the future of content creation and how newspapers will become extinct in the coming decades around the world. Rob Dawson and Gerd ...

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Leveraging The Right Mindset for Success

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Leveraging The Right Mindset for Success

This podcast really spoke to me. It's an interview with Carol Dweck, a professor at Stanford University. She talks about staying in a growth mindset. What makes some people successful (maybe people you wouldn't have thought would become successful)? And what prevents those people who you thought would become successful from ...

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Corporate Blogs in Decline Across Inc. 500 Companies-but why?

by Nate Devore Blogging
Corporate Blogs in Decline Across Inc. 500 Companies-but why?

Readwriteweb wrote an article explaining a report from the University of Massachusetts that shows a huge drop in the usage of blogs for big corporate companies. Over half of those who had blogs last year, don’t today. The report says,  ”The new data shows adoption of blogging is declining for the first ...

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Google Algorithm Updates, Panda 3.2 and Why Design Matters

by Nate Devore Marketing
Google Algorithm Updates, Panda 3.2 and Why Design Matters

You’re probably tired of hearing about the updates for Google’s Panda Algorithm. 2011 was the Year of Google Panda and there is no turning back (sorry!) This week Google rolled out another update to it’s panda machine learning algrotihm called Panda 3.2. This update was considered “minor.” A few days ago, Google also released a ...

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New Bookmarklet Adds More Social Networks to Search Plus Your World

by Nate Devore SEO
New Bookmarklet Adds More Social Networks to Search Plus Your World

When Search Plus Your World launched, I talked about how this was a paradigm shift in SEO. It’s Google’s attempt to create a social search engine. But the problem a lot of us have is that Google is biased to Google Plus. When you search for movies in Google, you see ...

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Using Google+ Ripples to Analyze Content and Find Influencers

by Nate Devore Blogging
Using Google+ Ripples to Analyze Content and Find Influencers

Do you know where to find influencers to share your content with? Influencers are people who have a large following and can potentially make your blog content spread virally. These people are usually power users and can help if you are just starting online. With Google+ Ripples you can identify potential ...

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Google Rolls Out Personalized Search: A Paradigm Shift For Google and SEO

by Nate Devore SEO
Google Rolls Out Personalized Search: A Paradigm Shift For Google and SEO

Google just announced MAJOR changes to the way Google Search displays results. In the coming days, Google Plus will be completely integrated into our favorite search tool delivering completely personalized search results. I originally found out via Louis Gray on Google Plus (you should circle him). Remember when Google announced the ...

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New Report Shows Social Media Usage for Enterprise Companies

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
New Report Shows Social Media Usage for Enterprise Companies

Suffering from Social Media overload? Managing all of your social networks, updating G+ and all that? Just imagine trying to manage 178 accounts! On average enterprise companies have 178 social media accounts to manage. That's a lot of tweeting, uploading of photos to flickr, and engaging fans and customers through Facebook ...

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Google+ Brand Page Status Updates Showing in Search Results [news]

by Nate Devore Social Media
Google+ Brand Page Status Updates Showing in Search Results [news]

Often times people ask, “why do I need Google Plus?” The answer: it’s Google silly! Sooner or later, Google will start integrating their new social network into their flagship products like Google Adwords & organic search. Oh wait, they just did this… I’ve been saying this since the first rumors started ...

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Google Plus Team Introduces Google+ Creative Kit for Photos

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Google Plus Team Introduces Google+ Creative Kit for Photos

The team at Google Plus have just released this fun new Google+ Creative Kit which allows users to easily make powerful edits to photos they upload on the Google Plus platform. Photos are essential to social networking so it makes sense to implement these features and G+ is doing this unbelievably ...

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