Well, spring is near and I for one am ready to be done with winter. Of course, March is a month of transition, where winter just won’t let go, continuing to hang on like a…..a……well…like an obsolete browser.
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First off, I don’t own a Kinect, nor have I ever done anything with motion capture. That said, that doesn’t mean I won’t have a need for it in the future!

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For any businesses that haven’t claimed your Google Place Page (formerly known as Google Business Listing), what are you waiting for? Get it done, read Jason’s past post as well as my past post on the topic, then come back. Go on….I’ll wait….

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The other day, I was working on a client’s Google Place Page, working towards making it as complete as possible. I noticed that the client had a video available about their business on their website, and I wanted to get it into their Place Page. There’s only one problem: Google only allows the user to link to videos posted to YouTube exclusively.

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Admittedly, it initially doesn’t sound too flattering or desirable to discuss DIY within a professional video production company. I mean, after all, what small business in Kalamazoo would want to pay for video production from a company that embraces a Do-It-Yourself mentality?
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For anybody still on the fence about the importance of proper search engine optimization, this latest piece of news should push you off. In March, Google publicly released their own SEO Report Card.
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A typical, perhaps even daily question we get around here is how to “optimize my site” to “rank higher” in Google. In other words, here you are, recognizing the importance of showing up on the 1st page of the Google results, but completely unclear as to what it is you can do to accomplish this.
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First, I must confess…this blog has much less to do with video than the title insinuates. Rather, it’s really more of a math problem that is somewhat related to video streaming.

Within the last couple weeks, I came across an article that talked about Google’s new “experimental fiber network,”and mentioned some of the efforts that the city of Kalamazoo is doing to become a prototype community for the venture. It’s a pretty short and to-the-point article. But one thing jumped out at me, (more…)

No, this not a list of web design companies in kalamazoo…but YES, it is a good example of what customers might type into Google while looking for a local service, and a good reminder to all local businesses in the Kalamazoo and Portage area to claim your business listing in Google, and other major search engines.
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I suspect that, in any profession, there is a tendency to get so comfortable with one’s own industry-related terminology that we become totally unaware of just how perplexing it is to those outside the industry. It may, in fact, be necessity to do so.
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