For the last couple of years, we have been encouraging our clients to host their promotional videos on YouTube. We had a variety of reasons for suggesting this:

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Google accounts are infinitely useful for businesses. While I personally use Google for absolutely everything, it’s also necessary for a lot of our needs here at alligatortek. Some Google products that are 100% necessary for running your business’ website include:

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As part of the business community your organization is often asked to sponsor events, make donations, and participate in other organizations in exchange for visibility. Of course exposure is not the only reason that you make these contributions, but it definitely is part of the return. As a designer who builds websites for many of the organizations that you may contribute to, I am often hunting down company logos to put up on these websites. It’s often a difficult task because many business owners don’t know how to get their logo in the format that I need, or it takes a really long time to track down.

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alligatortek today announced it has entered a partnership with Kentico Software to provide its customers with a flexible content management system for affordable development of effective websites for e-commerce, marketing, and member-based organizations such as Chambers of Commerce.

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Last weekend a couple of us alligatortek personnel had the chance to attend the Social Dev Camp Chicago 2010 conference, or SDCChi. If you don’t know what SDCChi is, it’s a conference for developers and business people to get together for a couple of days in order to discuss trends and possibilities in social networking technologies. It truly is a great forum.

Due to my line of work, I usually know about rising trends and new services before they reach general public. I was on facebook before it was even available for use by the general public, I was on MySpace before it was cool (only to rapidly become tragically uncool), and I was on twitter before it became the holy grail for celebrity stalkers. The draw-back of getting in before anyone else is that many times I never realize the full potential of the platform. This is not because I’m not paying close enough attention, but because when these services first launch they’re usually not that great. Listening to what others are now doing with these platforms is really eye-opening, and also hearing about new ventures into social media type marketing. Some of the speakers that I had the pleasure of listening to include:

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