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Did you know that in 2011, Google Apps released 100+ new updates? With so many new updates how to keep does one keep up with all the new releases and updates? Try Ask Google Guru where you can find Google Apps Training Videos by topic, by level (beginner, intermediate, Gooru), and Migration Guides.

Via Beth Dichter

Social Media Internet Marketing Checklist infographic to help your business create an online presence on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more.

Robin Good: eMeet.me is a new web-based online meeting service offering free videoconferencing, VoIP, screen-sharing, whiteboarding and text chat for up to 5 people.

 

Key features include:

-> Text chat

-> VoIP

-> Video

-> Screen-sharing

-> Whiteboard

-> File-sharing

-> Recording

-> Statistics and reports

-> Private or open meetings

 

The Pro version which allows you accomodate up to 20 participants per meeting costs $9/month.

 

eMeet.me is accessible via any type of dekstop computer or tablet device.

 

Pricing detail: http://emeet.me/plans.html ;

 

More info: http://eMeet.me 

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RT @GuidoFawkes: We Are On the Verge of Killing Popular Journalism http://order-order.com/2011/07/16/we-are-on-the-verge-of-killing-popular-journalism/...

Via Dave Courvoisier

LulzSec Reborn, a splinter group of the now-defunct LulzSec, exposed 10,000 Twitter users' data in a new hack.

 

LulzSec Reborn, a splinter group of the defunct LulzSec, is claiming responsibility for leaking data from 10,000 users of a ===> Twitter-based app called TweetGif. <===

 

The app, which let users share GIFs, required users to share information including their real names, passwords, bios, locations and secret tokens, all of which LulzSec Reborn has made public. The group, which last month leaked account information from 171,000 members of the military via millitarysingles.com, has not given a reason for its latest hack.

 

Reps from TweetGif could not be reached for comment at press time.

 

Read more:

http://mashable.com/2012/06/12/lulzsec-reborn-twitter/

 

Via Gust MEES

Retailers need corporate social responsibility strategyVancouver SunIn the United States, Target has employed a corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy since its founding. I expect that once it enters Canada, it will do the same here.

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Rae Ann Fera: "The legendary writer and actor has also become a well-known student of and speaker on creativity and how to cultivate it. He recently enlightened a group of ad types about the best ways to put yourself in a creative state of mind" ...

 

" “Guy Claxton, the author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, says there are two kinds of thinking: one dependent on reason and logic, and one that’s less purposeful, it’s more playful, leisurely, and dreamy. In this mode, we are mulling things over, almost meditative, pondering a problem versus earnestly trying to solve it. He says allowing the mind time to meander is not a luxury. You need the tortoise mind, such as Einstein described, as much as you need the hare brain." "

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Jeremiah Owyang is an Industry Analyst on Customer Strategy and Partner at Altimeter Group presents "How to Scale your social business 

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"E-reading has taken America by storm, with more and more people preferring their Kindles to any other medium. We take a look at the current trends in E-Reading, including what type of people prefer e-reading, and what the best selling devices are.

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