May.10, 2012 by Chris Chodnicki
Leave Home Without It: Mobile Payments Make a Power Play
What if you just tapped your mobile device on a reader while you were shopping, worked through all the coupons and discount possibilities, grabbed your bag and headed out the door with the transaction occurring seamlessly while you were in the store.
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Categories: Mobile
May.03, 2012 by Katie Millington
Making Measurement Make Sense: comScore’s 3MS Initiative
The future of digital media is highly dependent on the ability to report on metrics and compare data statistics generated from digital media with that of traditional media campaigns. Check out Jodie McDermott, Senior Director of Product Management for comScoreon, and her report on the 3MS initiative, “Making Measurement Make Sense.”
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May.03, 2012 by Katie Millington
What an Octopus and $100,000 Can Teach You About Branding
At first, Sean Murphy was shocked at what it would cost to develop a corporate mascot and add him to the corporate logo–$100k. But what got him over the sticker shock were the quick and intense returns they experienced after “Inky” started showing up.
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Categories: Brand Experience
May.03, 2012 by Rob Kaminski
Querying DotNetNuke User Profiles Using PIVOT
A common requirement when implementing DotNetNuke websites for a client is to have the ability to search for users based on custom fields. DotNetNuke makes it easy to add custom fields to the user profile via the manage profile properties interface within the user administration console. This is a wonderful feature to have within a CMS, as almost every client requests a custom field or two.
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Categories: DotNetNuke
May.01, 2012 by LoriUlloa
Mobile Marketing, SEO & Visibility: The Evolving Conversation
Congrats! You’ve decided, after analyzing your mobile traffic through analytics, that mobile will be an integral part of your online marketing strategy. Now, you may be wondering which of the following options is right for your organization…
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Categories: Mobile, Thought Leadership
Apr.20, 2012 by Chris Chodnicki
HTML5: A Features and Benefits Primer
With the availability of more than 3000 combinations of operating systems, browsers & mobile devices, and the release of new features and technologies to the market at an accelerated pace, the need for an organization’s mobile strategy to be ahead of this curve is critical for adoption, support and reach of their apps.
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Apr.16, 2012 by Chris Chodnicki
Look Ma, No Hands! Google’s Project Glass
In a secret lab somewhere near their HQ in Mountain View, CA, Google is working on several high level projects, including the much anticipated Project Glass, which is moving the company closer to Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s dream of a truly hands-free mobile world. That’s Sergey Brin below, wearing a Project Glass prototype at a recent event.
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Categories: Advances in technology, Thought Leadership
Apr.16, 2012 by Samantha DeVita
Google+ Holds Promise-Remains Weak on Usage
I don’t keep my feelings about Google Plus to myself. It’s still uncharted territory and right now I’m exploring it as another social tool, but not an intuitive or top of list one. Several weeks ago I likened it to “hopping on a seesaw by yourself.” The feedback was not so surprising and split into two camps: those who do and those who don’t. I continue to fall in the middle – a sporadic, hesitant user, but one willing to learn…
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Apr.12, 2012 by Samantha DeVita
Understanding The Evolving Mobile Landscape
Mobile adoption continues at a frenetic pace, as individuals like me have the need to (almost) always be connected. According to an eMarketer survey released in early April (see the results below), mobile phone usage is expected to increase to over 74% by 2016, from just 27% in 2010. This increase doesn’t consider growing tablet usage. Can you imagine where we’ll be overall by then?
Read More »Tags: Mobile, Mobile Apps, Mobile Marketing
Categories: Advances in technology, Mobile
Apr.11, 2012 by John Velasco
R2i Design Lounge: Responsive Web Design
As technology in the web design industry continues to progress at an exponential rate, the relatively slow-paced evolution of HTML throughout the years has always been a frustration point for many designers. Thankfully though, with innovations in web design finally starting to evolve more rapidly, we can now address UX issues across many devices, input modes, and browsers using a new layout technique called “Responsive Web Design”
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Categories: Design, Education, Web Browsers
