Google has recently released two updates revolving around the search engine giant. Penguin is geared toward penalizing websites' search results ranking due to spam links found on their website and stuffing keywords in every usable space. The Knowledge Graph is designed to help link search results and offer new information to search results that hasn't been readily available. Read more.

As the temperatures continue to increase outside, many of us office dwellers begin to worry about what our desk jobs are doing to our beach bodies. There are several health risks associated with sitting at a desk all day including back pain, weight gain and an increase in various illnesses such as heart disease. The studies conducted on this are terrifying. A study done by the University of North Carolina Wilmington discovered that the average office employee gained 16 pounds within their first eight months of sedentary employment. According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, people working a sedentary job are nearly twice as likely to get a specific type of colon cancer, compared to people doing manual labor. The journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise reported that people that sit for most of the day are 54% more likely to die of heart attacks.

YouTube may have started as a fun way to share mindless homemade videos, but it has transformed in to a valuable tool for companies and marketing teams. YouTube has the potential to help brands to make connections to new people in a unique way. Creating a YouTube channel can attract new customers and encourage them to interact with your brand. However, simply creating a channel is not enough to be successful. Today’s blog concentrates on how to make your YouTube channel a success.

Connecting businesses to consumers is becoming easier by the year with new advents in social media. The B2C social connection is a rapidly growing one, and can mean the difference in being profitable or never getting off the ground. Utilizing the numerous sites in which a company could integrate and engage potential consumers could help build brand recognition and awareness to a larger audience than before. It also lets your consumer base know the company is keeping up with the times and is fluent in current day technologies.

Earlier this week, our blog discussed a new program called Klouchebag, which calculates how annoying Twitter users are to their followers. Klouchebag scores increase with angry tweets (often tweets with cursing are included in this), English misuse, Retweet abuse and high social app activity. Our blog also talked about Klout, a website that measures people’s influence on social networks. These new social network scoring sites got us thinking – how does Core3 and our staff rank on these websites? Are we tweeting properly? Are we annoying our followers? Are we influencing fellow Twitter users? In today's blog, we investigate how Core3 staffers are behaving on Twitter and what their scores say about them.

A few weeks ago, a program called Klouchebag was introduced to help Twitter users determine how annoying they are on the social network. The web developer behind Klouchebag designed the website as a parody of Klout, a popular website to determine how influential people are on various social networks. Though Klouchebag was started as a joke, it has many Twitter users questioning how well they are using social networks and if they are annoying their followers.

The day has come for the official start to the Core3 Summer Internship program. We are excited to have taken on three interns to help out with various accounts in our digital marketing, web development and web design departments. The teams will work alongside the interns to teach them the skills they need to excel in their fields and show how each department works together.

Three years ago, the term tablet had little to do with technology. However, when Apple introduced the first iPad – companies across the world quickly created their own versions of the tablet and the term became a household name. According to Forrester Research, 56 million tablets were purchased in 2011, with a 46 percent growth from 2010. Forrester Research expects that 760 million tablets will be purchased by 2016.

Facebook started off as a simplified way to stay in touch with friends and family. However, the longer social networks are around – the more uses we find for them. Implementing social networks in to our daily lives has made a variety of tasks easier. Today’s blog concentrates on some unexpected ways that social networks have helped us in recent years.

Anyone who has seen the new Core3 office can tell you that the new space just breeds creativity. We’ve got a new open floor plan that allows us to really bounce things off of each other and collaborate, a full kitchen to keep us fueled and some great spaces to interface with clients. However, with all of this we’ve discovered, something we’re not so geared towards creativity -- BLANK WALLS!