30 Ways To Turn Yourself Into A Google Search Pro

Since it first came onto the scene in 1998, Google has grown exponentially, delving into different areas like mobile, technology, broadband, and mapping. However, the jewel in its crown has always been search, where is regularly improved and fine-tuned. However, because there are so many changes, chances are you missed a lot of them and you’re only using search for its most basic purpose. There are many tips and tricks that will help you refine your search results and whether you already know them or not, it’s always nice to have a review of just what it can do for you. Read more on SimplyZesty.com

12 Reasons To Be Thankful For Social Business

Why should we be grateful for social business? Let us count a dozen ways. It's probably safe to say that social media is a business game changer. It's still relatively new, and many companies have yet to do much more than set up a presence on the major external social networking platforms. But, as evidenced by The BrainYard's recent feature on social business leaders, there are many companies that are showing great return on social media investments in both internal and external products and practices. Read more on InformationWeek.com

How To SEO Optimise Google+ & Stay Ahead Of The Competition

It’s been more than a year since Google unleashed its latest social media site to the world, and while it didn’t get off to the best start (there’s still a lot of debate about what qualifies as an active user), it’s found and developed a core audience. However, even if you haven’t warmed to it, there’s a very important factor to take into considering and that is how it affects your SEO rankings. Read more on SimplyZesty.com

25 Ways To Create A Killer Blog That Will Drive New Business Leads

We’ve been blogging for three years and we think we have what you would call a successful business blog. It helps raise the profile of our company, while keeping hundreds of thousands of people engaged and coming back to get the latest social media news. It feels like the blog is large and established, but we had to start somewhere too when we wrote our first post and nobody knew about the blog. Read more on Simplyzesty.com

How To Overcome Social Business Performance Obstacles

The good news: We now know that organizations that use social media in their business activities do indeed generally see positive results. The data, both survey and otherwise, over the years makes that increasingly clear. Often, perhaps most of the time, it comes from amplifying an existing business process, such as marketing or worker collaboration. Sometimes, although less frequently, it comes from rethinking how business itself is done and redesigning operations from the ground up around social. Read more on InformationWeek.com

25 Quirky Social Media Tips That You Probably Don’t Know

We’re all pretty savvy when it comes to social media, we all know the basics and a lot of us have a deep knowledge of these sites. However, there can always be a few things that can slip through under the radar that we mightn’t have picked up on first-time round or have simply forgotten about. Here are 25 different features that you mightn’t have known about. Read more on Simplyzesty.com

How To Succeed With Your Mobile App

Most apps fail. This cruel reality has led many disillusioned developers to conclude, often subconsciously, that succeeding on the App Store is like striking it rich in the gold rush: you just need to get lucky. The idea of luck is a dangerous sedative to ease the pain of failure. Pain is a good thing. It shows something is wrong. If my app fails, I want to know why. Instead of blaming forces beyond our control, why not look at what folks like tap tap tap and Tapbots are doing to succeed again and again and again. Read more on SmashinMagazine.com

IT's Future: Less Building, More Bundling

With human resources, marketing and other departments going in different technological directions, IT's new mission is to tie all the company's services securely together. The future of corporate IT is less about building stuff and more about tying stuff together. I suppose this might be obvious to some folks, but it is worthwhile to step back and take a look at what is happening to business technology, budgets and the state of the IT profession. Consider the following three developments... Read more on InformationWeek.com.

Your Guide To The New Instagram Web Profiles

When Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, many wondered if the core of the service would be changed and if the giant social network would just integrate it into its own site. For its part, Facebook said it would keep it as a standalone app and let its 100 million users flourish through the mobile app. Read more on Simplyzesty.com

Windows 8 Super Guide

We've been waiting for this moment for nearly a year: this week Windows 8 finally arrives, and it's time to round up all the resources you'll need. We've been covering the new OS extensively to prepare you for its arrival. We've produced dozens of articles on topics from installing to using to choosing the right Windows 8 PC. We've presented tips, performance comparisons, and plenty of editorials and news pieces. We even have an article where you can ask us your questions about Microsoft's new OS. Two good places to start are PCMag's review of Windows 8 and our Windows 8 Landing Page. It's your one-stop destination for all PCMag.com's Windows 8 coverage—news, reviews, columns, and blog posts: it's all gathered here for you.

The 100 Best iPad Apps

Trivia time: How many native iPad apps are there in the iTunes App Store? 1,000? 5,000? 10,000? Not even close. Apple revealed in October, 2012 that there are more than 275,000 dedicated iPad apps. That's more than a quarter million apps that run the gamut from the social to the business-centric. That's a lot of software battling for a home on your iPad, or iPad mini. As such, you need to be discerning in your app selection—your iPad may quickly fill up, depending on its storage capacity, multimedia content, and lure of free and dirt-cheap apps. Read more on PCMag.com

50 Apps That Can Make You More Productive

Time is of the essence, especially in business, but increasingly across the blended work-personal life that many people lead. There's no shortage of incredible software on the market today that aims to make our work easier and ourselves more productive. If there's a task to be done, there's an app that will help you do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. Read more on PCMag.com