Last month, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Women Grow Business Boot Camp in Washington, DC. Organized by the Women Grow Business Community blog (sponsored by […]
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Women Grow Business Boot Camp in Washington, DC. Organized by the Women Grow Business Community blog (sponsored by Network Solutions), the event brought together women business owners and entrepreneurs from around the region to [...]
10 days ago, the Matrix Group Facebook fan page had 280 fans. As of tonight, we have 576 fans, more than double our starting number. How did we do it? We launched a campaign and created an incentive for people to "Like" us.
The Background
Matrix Group has had a Facebook fan page for a couple of years now and we had [...]
In my quest to try out new social networks, I signed up for FourSquare last year. I didn't start using the service until a couple of months ago, when I get my new Palm Pre and I felt ready to dive into another social network. FourSquare is a [...]
With all the hiring we're doing right now, my team decided that we better revisit all of our orientation guides. Orientations work like this at Matrix Group: we ask staff members from all teams to help with the orientation; we give them an outline and [...]
Every day around 3pm, I get my afternoon update of The Washington Post via e-mail. Each update contains a summary of about a dozen stories and links to the full story on the Post Web site. Every time I get an update from Facebook about a message [...]
I blogged last week about how excited I am that some of my favorite magazines are now available on the iPad. Last week, I discovered that TIME Magazine has a free iPad app. Turns out, the app is free, but issues are not. Each issue is $4.99. $4.99! When [...]
More and more of my clients are making the decision to eliminate their print magazines and newsletters. They're choosing digital versions of their publications over print to eliminate printing and mailing costs, achieve immediate delivery, and occasionally, create personalized versions based on customer preferences. All of this makes sense [...]
Remember when Facebook was a closed network, open only to college students? Then Facebook went mainstream and everyone could create a profile. But even back then, Facebook remained a closed network: you had to have a Facebook profile to see other profiles and connect with friends. Facebook was closed to Google and other search engines, which meant Facebook profiles [...]
There are more and more iPads are popping up at the office. Three of us have kids who are addicted to Godfinger. Me? I love surfing on the couch and playing games like Rush Hour and TanZen. Despite the popularity of the iPad at work, I've been reading a lot of critical articles and blog posts [...]
