November 14th, 2011 admin
Are you working for/with a non-profit organisation? If you are, you should take a look into “Google Grants”.
http://www.google.com/grants/
The scheme is designed to provide free advertising to charities through the Google AdWords system and also includes non-commission based Google Checkout.
If you’re accepted into the program, your organisation is entitled to up to $330 “per day” of free advertising! There are strict rules over the content and target of the adverts, but with a little work, you could be driving a lot of relevant traffic to your organisation.
I’ve worked with www.brunswickstreetmission.org in Halifax to implement this and will be helping them to use the service to increase awareness of the great work they do.
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July 26th, 2011 admin
Having played with Google Plus and Circles, one of the features missing is good search function. You can search for people to follow by name, but that’s about it.
The missing feature is even more surprising given that this is “Google” we’re talking about. If anyone can do search properly, it’s them!
Did you know however, you can use the standard www.google.com search engine to search through user profiles?
You can use the “site:plus.google.com” operator to return search results from user profiles.
For example – to find profiles of people who’ve lived/are living in Halifax Nova Scotia:
You could even set up a Google alert based on the search to email you when someone nearby signs up for Google+
It’s not just location you can search for – it could be people with similar interest too.
Get searching!
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July 22nd, 2011 admin
Wondering what today’s Google Doodle is for? Well it celebrates the birthday of American Sculptor and artist Alexander Calder.
The animation is of one of Alexander’s pieces – a mobile in the traditional colours of the Google logo.
It took me a while to figure out what the logo was for as initially, hovering over the image, or clicking on it didn’t give a clue – unlike previous Doodles. Strangely, the Doodle seemed to work better in IE which immediately animated the logo, and then revealed a clickable link explaining what the logo was for:
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