CRM Update – May 24 : 1:34 pm

In the days leading up to last Friday’s initial public offering for Facebook stock, the company raised the IPO price by several dollars a share, leading many small-level and amateur investors to wonder if maybe there was something more to the company than a place to post photos of you and your friends waiting in line to see Men In Black III. But at the same time, large investment firms were reportedly bailing on sinking their money into the social media site.

The Wall Street Journal reports on how the folks at L…

Can you handle long hours, low pay, and impossibly high expectations? The start-up life might be for you. Here’s how to break in.Dear college graduates,Looking for work at large, established companies? Going that route means you’ll start your career as a cog in a well-oiled machine. You will go through formal training, have relatively few real responsibilities at the outset, and, if you’re lucky, maybe progress ever-so-slowly up the corporate ladder.For most people, this is a safe and comfortable way to start their work lives…

Did you ever spin a globe, vowing to travel to the exact place your finger landed on? You can do just that with the Barefoot World Atlas app for iPad.
The interactive atlas, based on the Barefoot Books atlas, features a colorful globe that children can spin to discover far-off places. The app is optimized to take advantage of the new iPad’s Retina display, though it will render fine with previous versions.
Kids can pinch and zoom their way through different countries. They learn about cultures, see 3D rotations of historical objects and find fun facts like how far away the country is or what the local weather is as they go…

The first version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch dev tool has achieved only modest traction in the market. Here’s a set of recommendations from an ardent supporter of the product.

Non-profit Worldreader kicked off a campaign Thursday aiming to put 1 million e-books in the hands of children across the planet, with a little help from players on one of the world’s most popular sports teams.
This may sound like a crazy goal, considering the widespread absence of books from African classrooms, but the organization is aleady well on its way. So far, Worldreader has donated 100,000 books to 1,000 students in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
The non-profit now wants to expand its reach throughout sub-Saharan Africa and has enlisted some capable help — the world-renowned players on FC Barcelona (Barça)…

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.
Yahoo Launches Web Browser Axis to Mixed Reviews
Yahoo has launched a search-oriented web browser called Axis. In our review, we’ve found it to be much more useful as an iPad app than on the desktop.
The launch, however, did not go without some controversy. According to a report from Nik Cubrilovic, Axis (more precisely, its Chrome extension) has some serious security issues…

It’s true, it doesn’t work with negatives. The workaround is to combine “include” and exclude” conditions until you reach the result you need.

From small business to show business, one familiar adage universally holds true: it’s always best to under-promise and over-deliver.
When it comes to mobile commerce, expectations have been high for quite some time. And yet despite the hype, the growth of mCommerce continues to outpace even the most ambitious projections.
According to the latest research results from eDigitalResearch and Portaltech, 64% of smartphone owners are now using their mobile devices to shop online. That number has quadrupled since June 2010…

In an age of tiny keyboards and emoticons, you may think typos don’t matter. Not so, according to someone who’s been addressed as Mr. Renay Seagull.In the era of tiny keyboards and social media, flying thumbs and emoticons, English majors everywhere are having conniption fits. Typos are inevitable, but do they really matter? For business leaders and entrepreneurs, the answer is Yes. Hell yes. Bad grammar and typos might be amusing on signs and restaurant menus, but they’re an entirely different matter coming from a business professional like you…

Are you seeing the results you want from your Twitter activities?There are over 1,000,000 different apps for Twitter and a new one is added every second. This means it is often quite easy to get confused finding those that actually add real value to your day-to-day tweeting.I took a look at some of the latest and most promising Twitter tools to get you tweeting like a pro.So, if you think it is time to up your game with some new tools, keep reading.Here are 5 tools to help you power up your Twitter marketing efforts…

If you’re still betting on display ads, here’s where to go for more bang for your buck.Trying to decide between Facebook and Google display advertising campaigns? Some information compiled by WordStream from a variety of sources suggests that if you’re looking for cost effectiveness, Google offers more bang for your buck—for now.Some of the differences in reported performance are enormous. A caveat: WordStream has an interest in the outcome, as it sells services and tools specifically for use with Google AdWords…

You’re not listening to me!
Social media provides consumers with easy-to-use feedback platforms—from Facebook and Twitter to TripAdvisor and Yelp—on which to rant and rave about products, brands and companies. Despite this massive social media reservoir of user input, most marketers don’t pay attention to what consumers are saying.
“You’re not listening to me!” is a popular phrase among teenagers and spouses. Consumers could say the same thing since marketers aren’t much better. While just over three-quarters of consumers post about products on social media, only two out of five firms have any social media tracking in place at all, according to recent Satmetrix research…

At least one thing is true of youth in every country: give them access to technology and a bit of guidance, and they’re capable of changing the world for the better. Helping young people do exactly that has been the job of the State Department’s Ronan Farrow for the past year.
Farrow has served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s special advisor on global youth issues since the middle of 2011. He firmly believes that technology is radically altering what it means to be a young person today, as social networks give them an unprecedented opportunity to have their voice heard and connect with other youth around the world to fix the problems they face…

College debt is one of the few debts that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy, unless you have a really, really good reason. You pretty much have to be dead or have a debilitating disability that keeps you from working. So it caught the attention of the National Law Journal when a 66-year-old Maryland woman had $339,361 in college debt discharged in bankruptcy court earlier this month.

Her journey into educational borrowing began after receiving her high school diploma at age 39…

The complaint behind this story was not, at its core, a serious consumer problem. Chris ordered a pizza that was missing a few toppings and on the wrong type of crust. What’s notable is that the regional management of Papa John’s treated it like it was. Well, eventually. After the local store manager insisted that the error was Chris’s fault, he fired off a quick complaint on the website. And that’s when corporate solicitousness and free pizzas rained down upon him. Not literally…

John Malkovich has joined Apple’s growing list of quirky actors promoting Siri with two new ads highlighting the app’s lighter side.
One of the ads, both are by TBWAMedia Arts Lab, shows Malkovich sitting at home and using Siri to plan his night. Realizing his schedule is open, he asks Siri to find a restaurant serving linguica. Then, apparently amused at Siri’s functionality, he asks for a joke. “Two iPhones walk into a bar,” says Siri. “I don’t remember the rest…

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Making a great video used to mean pulling out an expensive video camera and owning your own video editing suite. Now you can do many of the same things once exclusively reserved for a high-end equipment right on your iPhone without a ton of cash or a lot of training.
The iPhone is capable of recording high-definition video suitable for the giant plasma screen in your living room, and there are a number of video editing apps out there to help you polish your video and add opening credits, sound effects and even a soundtrack into the mix — without ever leaving your device…

How to give a demonstration that helps convince a customer to actually buy the product.There is almost nothing more powerful than a great product demonstration.When done correctly, a demo allows the customer to see and feel how things will be better if they buy (and worse if they don’t).Use these rules to make certain your product demos move the sale forward.1. Customize your demo.Every customer is unique, so every demo should be uniquely matched to that customer. Before you demonstrate a product, do your research…

The popular mobile app Bump — that shares contacts and photos between two phones when they’re tapped together — is now headed to your computer. The service announced Thursday an update that lets you bump your phone on your computer’s spacebar to transfer photos to your computer and share them places like Facebook and Twitter.
Bump has been particularly useful for sharing photos. In the past two years, Bump has been used to transfer more than 630 million pictures from device to device…

The “investigative blogger” behind Men in Black 3′s smart social campaign is making a small cameo in the film.
It’s been more than ten years since the Men in Black 2 hit the big screen, so today’s youth may be a bit unfamiliar with the brand that once dominated July 4th weekend box office sales. To generate buzz in the online world, the film has been engaging in a series of initiatives to build momentum for its Memorial Day weekend release.
A 14-year-old blogger — known only “BugEyes126″ — has been posting blog entries and videos to TheMenInBlackSuitsAreReal…

Since 2005, Mashable has looked at the world as a digital experience. New products, technologies and ideas smashing together to create great new things. That’s still happening, but now that technology has grown legs and marched into every part of our society. It’s at work, on the road, in revolutions and at the forefront of modern innovation. It’s a part of our lives. We are living a digital lifestyle.
Lifestyle is about the parts of our lives that are, perhaps, maybe a little more personal than everything else…

You can just make out the finish line from where you’re crouching. You see all the other runners you’ll be competing with and you know it all revolves around getting to that finish line first. You see the line ref come out and raise the gun. Sweat beads on your forehead. You’re ready.
The gun fires!
And THAT’S when you realize that you’re 100 yards behind everyone else, your shoes aren’t laced and you’re facing the wrong way.
Starting Strong Is Almost As Important As Finishing First
If you played sports growing up, I’m betting you heard the phrase, “It doesn’t matter how you start, it only matters how you finish…

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President Barack Obama has ordered all government agencies to offer more of their services in the form of mobile apps.
A new memo called “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People” requires each agency to make at least two services, used by the public, available on mobile devices within 12 months.
“For far too long, the American people have been forced to navigate a labyrinth of information across different government programs in order to find the services they need,” says the memo…