What You Should Know About the HeartBleed SSL Security Bug

If you have an account on Yahoo mail, Gmail, Instagram, Netflix, or a variety of other websites, you may have been affected by the HeartBleed SSL security bug. HeartBleed just became public this past week, and is rapidly being addressed, but it represents an SSL security vunerability that may have existed and been exploited by hackers for up to the last two years.

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Want to Keep Your Personal Information Private? Monitor Your Online Reputation!

Personal Privacy is harder than ever to achieve. The abundance of online information, as well as the many venues available to share personal and private information, makes it extremely difficult to protect yourself against online threats to your personal reputation and identity.

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5 Typography Terms You Must Know

With Twitter’s announcement last week about the new photo tagging and collage features and Facebook’s implementation of the 20% rule, image-centric marketing is overtaking traditional text media. Twitter reports that tweets with a photo are 35 percent more likely to get retweeted than one without.

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How Colors Affect Your Purchase Decisions

What color signal does your brand project? With the average human brain processing visuals 60,000 times faster than text, it is incredibly important for brands to recognize the important role that color plays in consumer purchasing decisions.

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How Louis Philippe's Online Lifestyle Magazine 'The Label' Helped Build Its Brand Equity

Louis Philippe (LP) has stood for its excellence since 1989, the time it was launched in India. The tradition of excellence dates back to the 60’s when the brand was first introduced in England, inspired by the golden age of King Louis Philippe of France.

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SMToolbox: Grow Your Google Plus Engagement with Steady Demand

Data is great, but insights that allow you to improve your performance are much more valuable. This week in SMToolbox, we review Steady Demand Pro, a good example of a tool that goes beyond data monitoring to provide practical insights and constant prompts to help you improve your performance on Google Plus.

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3 Reasons LinkedIn Endorsements Suck

I’d like to start with the caveat that I think LinkedIn is amazing. I’m not here to Linkedin bash. In fact, I think I’m doing the opposite. I’m a LinkedIn groupie that wants to get the word out to Linkedin that one of their features sucks, and please kindly remove it so we can go about loving your platform again - thankyouverymuch.

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