HootSuite offers a professional and consolidated collection of Twitter-related tools. It is a website that you log into from your web browser from anywhere, not a program that you have to download and install.

In this brief entry, I'm going to share with you something I've learned through hard lessons in the IT industry. There are certain rules to live by in life, like the Golden Rule, the 80/20 Rule, and, of course, Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm (it's a rule, but programmers love algorithms). It goes something like this:

Pick any two: Good, Fast, Cheap.

Once again, today's topic is about Search Engine Marketing and how to make your website be your best salesperson. Treat your website like a salesperson, holding it accountable just as you would a human salesperson.

After determining your expectations for your website it's time to implement the changes necessary to meet those goals. A typical scenario for search engine marketing:

1. Your current site is reviewed and evaluated for a number of important factors.
2. The site is redesigned using Search Engine Marketing best practices.
3. Monitoring and measuring tools are also implemented so that progress can be better tracked.

I should have better things to do than blog about games, again and again, right? This is a professional site for me, after all. But, I just couldn't let my last review stand without reporting in on how the real game plays in comparison to the demo I reviewed a couple weeks back. There are a few differences that affect gameplay.

Cities XLis a new city simulation game and MMO from Monte Cristo. As a longtime avid SimCity player, I just couldn't wait for this new game to come out, especially given the incredibly disappointing experience of SimCity Societies (the last version of the SimCity franchise). Cities XL lets me build the city of my dreams (or nightmares, in some cases) in a more realistic fashion than any previous city simulator.