Ogawa Design Blog
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February 19, 2010
- Using Google Apps Standard Edition - It’s free and very reliable!
Company Email for your business should be easy to setup and configure for new and existing employees, especially for mobile devices and employees working from home without requiring a large cost to support. [caption id="attachment_476" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Google Apps Standard Edition"][/caption] That said, the most important thing is that it should be reliable. Google Apps [...]
December 7, 2009
- Blog Disclosure Policy - Do you have one yet?
On December 1, 2009, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new disclosure guidelines for bloggers and affiliates went into effect. The best
Blog Disclosure Policy Generator is at the http://disclosurepolicy.org site. If you receive any free stuff or compensation or affiliate income for your blog, you should review the new FTC requirements.
Blog Disclosure Statement ResourcesFTC Guidelines [...]
November 2, 2009
- Facebook Pages - How to Create a Facebook Page
Do you have a Facebook Page for your local business, brand, product or organization yet? Are you an Artist, Band or Public Figure that doesn’t have a Facebook Page yet. Here are steps to creating one.
Step 1 - Sign on to Facebook and go to the following link.http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
You will need to select the category of [...]
September 8, 2009
- Airline Twitter Accounts - A reason to be on Twitter
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If you are a business owner that has resisted getting on Twitter.com, here’s the first really good reason to get a Twitter Account. The airlines are one of the very first companies to provide customer service on Twitter. If your flight is delayed or there is a long line [...]
August 4, 2009
- Facebook Album Privacy Settings - How to
Every Facebook user who posts family or personal pictures to their Facebook Album should consider setting up their Facebook Album Privacy. This would be especially important if you don’t want some of your children’s pictures to be displayed to the entire Facebook community or your Facebook Network. Here are some recommended steps.
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July 17, 2009
- Top Twitter Ranking Sites
Even if you don’t have aspirations to become an elite member of the world-wide Twitter community or the Twitterati such as Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk, it is important that you protect your beachhead in your local community or industry Twittersphere. For example, WeFollow.com provides a ranking of by city such as http://www.wefollow.com/twitter/miami. I noticed my [...]
June 11, 2009
- Get your Facebook Username on Sat June 13, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. ET
If you have a Facebook account and you have a common name such as John Smith and you want the website address http://www.facebook.com/johnsmith for your profile rather than http://www.facebook.com/john.smith or jsmith or jsmith99999, then at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, June 12, 2009 you need to log on to Faceboook.com and grab your profile name. Yes, [...]
April 22, 2009
- Google Profiles is the New Global Directory
It appears that Google Profiles could be the new Global Telphone Directory or Global White Pages. Today I created my Google Profiles entry and in less than a 30 minutes, when I searched on my name it showed up in the Google Search Results with the other Martin’s in the world.
When you search on a [...]
April 17, 2009
- Enable SMS for Your Twitter Direct Messages, Updates for Selected Members
I have an iPhone with a Twitter client so I never felt there was a reason to enable the SMS messages from Twitter. However, I recently enabled the SMS service to see if I could configure it to receive direct messages only and was surprised when it worked perfectly, even for users that don’t have unlimited SMS service phone [...]
April 16, 2009
- Links to Your Social Media Profiles are like Football Helmet Stickers
Your should consider your social media links to sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn like stickers on a football helmet such as in the picture above. Are you promoting your profile so that you can increase your company or your personal brand awareness? Here is a list of places you should promote your social media profiles:
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April 13, 2009
- How to Delete a Twitter Update
Did you mistweet or send a Twitter update that you now want to delete? If you want to remove an update that you posted to Twitter, it’s very easy. Here are instructions.
From Twitter.com
1. From your Twitter.com Home or Profile page, click “updates”
2. Put your cursor over the tweet you want to delete. You will see [...]
April 7, 2009
- Is your User Name Available on Twitter and Other Sites?
When I have a discussion with many local business owners, friends and family members about Twitter, I usually hear that “I’m too busy to care about what people I don’t know are twittering about”, “What is Twitter again?”, “What is a micro blog?”, “Is it 140 characters?”, “Now why should I get on Twitter?”.
This morning [...]
April 5, 2009
- Twitter Abbreviations and Twitter Acronymns
Here is a list of Twitter Abbreviations, Twitter Acronymns and Twitter commands. If you have been reading your daily tweets form the members of the Twitter community you are following, you’ve noticed that people are using various message commands such as @username, hash tags such as #miami and abbreviations or shorthand because Twitter is limited [...]
March 25, 2009
- Twitter for Your Biz - First Step 15 Character Twitter Name
Twitter is smoking hot right now — and in the past several months, most of my friends, former classmates and family members have asked me about Twitter. If you haven’t created a Twitter Account for your local business or personal blog yet, now is the time — it’s like the late ’90s when the Internet took [...]
September 29, 2008
- Google AdWords Success Story Video
Here’s a AdWords Success Story Video.
September 22, 2008
- Welcome to Ogawa Design!
We are an Digital Design and Marketing Agency located in Miami, Florida. We specialize in helping small businesses extend their existing websites to take advantage of new cost efficient open source website platforms, social media or Web 2.0 content and local search opportunities. We will assist you in leveraging your existing Internet investment to ensure [...]
