Category: Marketing
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How to Use Downtime in iOS to Disconnect from Work
Downtime is intended for users who want to set aside time each day to ignore their phones almost entirely, save for some basic functionality (like making calls). However, the way I’m using it allows for what I’ll call “Work Downtime.” It enables me to disconnect from work without transforming my phone into a glorified paperweight.…
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Tim becomes a Tommie
If you follow me on social media (or, say, you know me in real life), you’ve heard my latest personal news: on Monday, November 13, I started a new position as Marketing Manager for the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. After nearly three years at Mall of America, I decided to make…
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Facebook To Join the Film Foray
Joe Flint and Deepa Seetharaman in The Wall Street Journal today reported that Facebook plans to begin producing original, “TV-quality shows” by as soon as late summer 2017. In meetings with major talent agencies including Creative Artists Agency, United Talent Agency, William Morris Endeavor and ICM Partners, Facebook has indicated it is willing to commit to production…
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Pocket’s Trending News on Google
I opened Google today and saw something new: Trending Stories by Pocket. Pocket is a popular “save-for-later service” that allows users to save stories from the web to read on their devices offline at a later time. I use the service frequently, and indeed clicking the ? icon displays this message: The best of the…
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Outdoor Research Takes on GQ
As more companies consciously make an effort to keep sexism out of their marketing content, others are stuck in the Mad Men mentality of the past. The latest example: GQ published a piece on fall fashion for which they took a group of male rock climbers, a few female models and lots of really expensive clothing to…
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4 Cloud Services to De-clutter Your Computer
There was a time when the amount of storage available was a major factor in my device purchases. I needed lots of space to store all of my documents, photos, music files and more. Storage space is now much less of a consideration thanks to tremendous advancements in cheap and free cloud services. My 4-year-old Mac…
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How Hackers Manipulate Waze (and Other Apps)
Kashmir Hill at Fusion shares the findings from a research team at University of California-Santa Barbara: Here’s how the exploit works. Waze’s servers communicate with phones using an SSL encrypted connection, a security precaution meant to ensure that Waze’s computers are really talking to a Waze app on someone’s smartphone. Zhao and his graduate students discovered they…
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