Create your Google+ Page

Here’s a step by step video that will show you how:

Google+, what?

Think multiple person skype chats, stumbleupon, facebook and youtube – in one. Hangout virtually with friends or collegues, (or hold a conference with people out of town), search and read things that you or your company are interested in, connect with people and share your videos and photos effortlessly. Although Google+ isn’t open to the public yet, it seems like it might be something to watch out for. If you like social media and believe it’s here to stay, keep your eyes open and your google search bar open!

Get Google Earth. Put the world in perspective.

Have you tried the new Google Earth?

This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and more. You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country. Get Google Earth. Put the world in perspective. http://earth.google.com

This is just too much fun!

Google introduces +1

Google Socializes Search Results With +1: ”Plus one” is digital shorthand for “this is pretty cool” and it’s Google’s version of the Facebook Like button. “To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These +1’s will then start appearing in Google’s search results.” To try out this new feature, you need to have a Google profile and visit the Google Labs site to opt in to the +1 program.

Goo.gl

Do you have a long URL that needs shortening?It’s a handy tool that will help you share long URL’s and also help you track their popularity.

Google’s URL Makes it smaller: http://goo.gl/

Here’s the short link for InSights Group http://goo.gl/kBR3

Or how about our site InSights For Dentists: http://goo.gl/bE7J

Why should you even have a blog?

There are tons of reasons to have a blog. Here are a few.

It Gives Users a Reason to Come Back

If your website content never changes, visitors will read what they want to once and leave and probably never be back. But if you’re writing new content all the time, they have a reason to come back. And if your content is interesting, they may even become loyal readers (and fans).

It Gives You a Reason to Create New Content

Once you’ve established a blogging habit, you’ll want to keep doing it (the definition of a habit, after all). If you don’t have a blog, adding new content is difficult and may involve redesigning your site. Blogs are simple; they manage themselves. All you have to do is to keep pouring content into them.

Blogging Helps You Think and Improves Your Creativity

By disciplining yourself to blog frequently, you are making yourself create new ideas, think new thoughts, and explain things in new ways. Blogging will keep you out of mental ruts. New ideas will emerge, and you may even find yourself changing or redefining your business model.

Google Loves Activity

Did you know that Google gets bored easily, and if it finds nothing new when it checks your site, it probably will stop checking? But did you know that Google sees each new blog post as a separate page, and more pages and more content equals more attention from search engines? Want to get found? Write more stuff, and do it often!

This is a guest post by Tom Harris. Visit his awesome and amazing website here.

Do you surprise your readers, or site visitors, just because?

Google's Search Page

I like to head over to Google.com every once in a while to see what they are up to. They have a very clean landing page that serves as their search page online. When something fun is happening in the world, they often do subtle things to change the page the world views for the day. It’s a short little “quirk” to our day. It’s even more interesting when you have no idea what might be going on…

So, Today’s the Day: Happy 50th Anniversary Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone, and the whole gang. Thanks for being a part of my childhood via Google.