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Angels Come to Visit Us We Just Need to Be Aware

By Dinis Guarda  /  28 Feb 2011  /  1 comment

Life is made of a magnitude of overwhelming islands in a wild and sometimes calm sea. When visualising life one can think of it, somehow, made of a magnitude of overwhelming islands in a wild and sometimes calm sea. And as true navigators one needs to go through it with the right sailing skills and make sure we reach the right island of the archipelago of destiny… Though one needs to do it without loosing sight of the archipelago of life and its whole. No man is an island as John Donne put Read more […]

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Best iPad and iPhone applications for children of all ages

By Dinis Guarda  /  26 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

As an iPad and especially an app addict I have been trying out a huge amount of apps for my own entertainment, work, tech experiments and of course for my child and friends’ children. Trust me, part of the fun of having an iPad is sharing it with your child. Having tried to find relevant information about iPad and iPhone applications for a while I discovered that it was a very difficult and time-consuming task. The Apple iTunes search is not very sophisticated and in the end you just find some Read more […]

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The 7 things I could never do and live without

By Dinis Guarda  /  26 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

Did you stop sometimes to check how your brain is scarred sometimes to death with no stop flows of fears and useless prejudice or insecurities. I am sure that both you and me could write a book about these daily insomnia creepy moments that sometime take over my and your thoughts. The exercise seems to be how to deal with these moments of weakness and how to focus the energy within the things that you and I could never do or live without. This is an exercise that can produce amazing results. Present Read more […]

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Top 30 technical business SEO and Social Media requirements for a website

By Dinis Guarda  /  18 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

SEO is critical for the success of any business strategy online. It is the holistic mix of good practices and the correct set up for the technical part of a website and its interaction with strategy and content. There are a lot of names for SEO but ultimately it is about good practices that have to do with consistency and ethical best practice. In order to have a SEO work in progress and a strong business case any business has to do their home work first. That homework is about the DNA setting Read more […]

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It is not about having time but making decisions: Social Me-dia Management

By Dinis Guarda  /  11 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

What if time stopped now…? What if you could effectively do what you always wanted to do…? This is a question I have been asking myself more lately. And the answer it is not so much about time, but about time management and decision! In the present landscape we live where the Me is mixed within the Social “Me”dia there are new things to be extra aware. Everything in daily life and personal management is somehow mixed with different real and digital platforms. This shift from reality and Read more […]

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What is going on with Content, Social Media, Facebook, Twitter…?

By Dinis Guarda  /  11 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

There is a continuous big shift in the web and it has mainly to do with the velocity of technology and its interactivity with the sources of content and the way it is distributed through the social graph. Looking between the difference and evolution between traditional media channels and the digital channels: Web, Mobile, Tablet-Touch, apps;  the main changing and chain reaction happens at the level of content and its interactivity and velocity of technology answering to the social graph of internet Read more […]

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Twitter Is the Web Real Time Search and Much More

By Dinis Guarda  /  03 Feb 2011  /  0 comment

Twitter with 200 Million users is, at the moment, the web real time search. Twitter reaches 200 million users and 110 million tweets per day . If you put on the top of that the fact that the Tweets are appearing in Google and Bing search queries it becomes even bigger its impact. But last not least, is the snow ball effect through all the other tools, widgets, and websites aggregated in the Twitter network. Eric Schmidt accepts, as stated in an interview to Wired magazine UK,  that Google has Read more […]

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Building A Holistic Web Social Media strategy Approach That Delivers Results

By Dinis Guarda  /  21 Jan 2011  /  3 comments

Building a Holistic approach that delivers results can only be done when you have a core focus and strategy. Strategy deals with having a clear idea about who you are and what you want to achieve. So to create a holistic strategy for your web and social media machine fundamentally means to rethink what closely held stakeholders close to the critical business strategy. Also any strategy means that you have always first to start any change or definition of action within yourself and yours: internally! Holism Read more […]

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Be aware of Mermaids and Sirens How to Deal With Erroneous Zones

By Dinis Guarda  /  16 Jan 2011  /  0 comment

Did you ever meet a mermaid or a siren in your life? Well I did and trust me it was the craziest experience in my life. Mermaids and sirens are mythological creatures that sink the fishermen and navigators. They are beautiful and sensual people (ladies in my case, or attractive borderline situations) disguised as passions and love affairs that come to your life and suddenly move everything. These creatures or situations have a strong spell, they hypnotize and drive you towards a border (a cliff) Read more […]

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Building a Social Media Machine and Strategy

By Dinis Guarda  /  10 Jan 2011  /  0 comment

Business and media worldwide are working hard in the questions and challenges that Social Media brought with it. Web evolved from a close network of IPs into a web wide open system where Search and Social Media environment have overthrown almost everything and it is irreversible to have a strategy and to create a social media machine if you are a business. And this bring a lot of concerns how to manage a social media strategy and how to behave on a Social media world. The first question to ask: Read more […]

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