according to Flurry: Time Spent On Mobile Apps Has Surpassed Web Browsing which said…

The average user now spends 9% more time using mobile apps than the Internet. In June users spent an average of 81 minutes daily on mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes on the web.

and was thinking I should send out another reminder for people to test your websites on the most popular phones to see how you fare.  If you’d like some help with testing, please let me know.

Official Google Blog writes…

Today, we’re releasing +1 buttons to the whole web. As a result, you might start seeing +1 appear on sites large and small across the Internet.

Read all about it via The +1 button for websites: recommend content across the web.

Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.

This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.

via Internet Explorer 6 Countdown.

One of the categories SMBs ask for the most help with is social media. You need to quickly and easily keep an eye on what people are saying about you; more importantly, you need to participate in the social media conversation yourself, without drowning hours upon endless hours bouncing around various websites.

There are three great tools we’d recommend for pushing out updates to a variety of sites at once. All three have free, web-based services, and they’re great for working with teams, too. Depending on your specific needs and tastes, you could try out Hootsuite, Seesmic and TweetDeck.

If you want to see what people are saying about your company, your product, your location or your vertical in real time, try searching for relevant terms on Collecta or SocialMention.

You also have options for network-specific monitoring tools. To see how your tweets are performing, tryCrowdBooster. And remember, Twitter’s official analytics product is coming soon, too. For Facebook, use that social network’s Insights dashboard for your business’s Facebook Page.

via 23 Free, Web-Based Tools SMBs Are Asking for Now.

Not just a blog but also an intuitive and friendly content management system, WordPress forms the stable and secure basis for thousands of websites, commanding a whopping 87% of all blogs. Powerful and flexible with an enormous developer base, WordPress can be customized to fit your website needs, no matter how complex, with its easy customization and over 10 thousand plugins to choose from. Specializing in WordPress-powered sites, Sue Sutcliffe can help you build a knockout website.

Today, Sue Sutcliffe is presenting her introductory Social Media 101 webinar, followed by her introduction to WordPress Blogging.

Every week, Sue hosts two knockout fabulous Webinars on Tuesdays from noon to 1pm, followed by another from 5pm to 6pm, each one including a half hour question and answer session.

Next week, Sue will be offering another chance to catch the WordPress Blogging course, along with her new introduction to Facebook:

WordPress Blogging (12pm – 1pm)

Not just a blog but also an intuitive and friendly content management system, WordPress forms the stable and secure basis for thousands of websites, commanding a whopping 87% of all blogs. Powerful and flexible with an enormous developer base, WordPress can be customized to fit your website needs, no matter how complex, with its easy customization and over 10 thousand plugins to choose from. Specializing in WordPress-powered sites, Sue Sutcliffe can help you build a knockout website.

Facebook (5pm – 6pm)

With more than 500 million active users, Facebook offers a flexible and powerful tool for making connections with potential clients and reinforcing the ones you’ve already made. As many as 50% (250 million!) of these users log in every day and collectively spend 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Sue Sutcliffe will help you tap into this vast resource and aid you in creating a Page to promote your business and connect with a whole new world of exposure to build and develop your business.

In the following weeks, Sue will introduce you to blogging with WordPress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and Ning. Join in, learn, and grow your business!

Today, Sue Sucliffe is kicking off her new Techie Tuesday workshop series with a double billing of Social Media 101, your introduction to social media.

Every week, Sue hosts two knockout fabulous Webinars on Tuesdays from noon to 1pm, followed by another from 5pm to 6pm, each one including a half hour question and answer session.

Next week, Sue will be offering another chance to catch the Social Media 101 course, along with her new introduction to WordPress Blogging:

Social Media 101 (12pm – 1pm)

You’ll find out what social media is, who’s using it, and how to automate your communication to social media spaces such as like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. You’ll learn:

• - nine essential steps to social media success
• - how to manage your social media profile efficiently
• - pitfals to avoid
• - tricks to make it as easy as sending an email

Seating is limited, so reserve your seat today and details you require to sit in on this webinar e.g. phone number to call and link to see presentation will be emailed to you.

WordPress Blogging (5pm – 6pm)

Not just a blog but also an intuitive and friendly content management system, WordPress forms the stable and secure basis for thousands of websites, commanding a whopping 87% of all blogs. Powerful and flexible with an enormous developer base, WordPress can be customized to fit your website needs, no matter how complex, with its easy customization and over 10 thousand plugins to choose from. Specializing in WordPress-powered sites, Sue Sutcliffe can help you build a knockout website.

In the following weeks, Sue will introduce you to blogging with WordPress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and Ning. Join in, learn, and grow your business!

On July 1st, the HST comes into effect through Ontario, replacing the PST and GST. For businesses, it means updating accounting and invoicing systems and taking advantage of tax cuts because of Ontario’s tax changes.

For more information, call 1-800-959-5525 or visit one of the three websites our Provinces provided us with:
http://www.ontario.ca/hstready
http://www.cra.gc.ca/harmonization
http://www.ontario.ca/taxchange

Way to go The Web 2.0 Glossary. Love your definition of RSS/Web Feeds and have broken it down into three statements, just to make it just that much easier to grasp…

RSS/Web Feeds. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a system of transporting articles across the internet.

An RSS feed (sometimes simply called a ‘web feed’) contains either full or summarized articles without all the fluff contained on the website.

These feeds can be read by other websites or by RSS readers.

Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is a candy

~ Charles F Abbott

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