By Robert Durish, Posted in Developer Corner

This week we will discuss how to create a select box that the user can select multiple items.  As you can imagine of course this isn't really a normal html <select> tag, but your user won't know the difference. I came across this idea when a project came up where this functionality in a select box would be perfect, allowing the user to filter items, allowing multiple selections will allow the user to have multiple filters on and off with out a large row of filter checkboxes. Let's go step and... read more.

• March 26, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Hudson Horizons

Hey there! Hudson Horizons founder, president & CEO Daryl H. Bryant and me, Social Media Specialist Lauren Litwinka have been at the Search Engine Strategies conference and expo event here in New York City for the past three days (hence the momentary lapse in our company blog posts). But we're leaning a lot here, meeting great people, listening to presentations by top industry experts, and we can't wait to come back and put this insightful knowledge to work for Hudson Horizons.We invite youto follow us... read more.

• March 25, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ticketini

Hey there! When last we left, I was tweaking the Ticketini Squidoo page... beefing it up with links to upcoming shows, info on featured artists, music videos, Amazon album picks, featured lenses (other Squidoo pages), news feeds, and a heck of a lot more.Then the creative lightening struck... why not create individual pages for our favorite performers? What better way to pay tribute to great singers, and really put the spotlight on their upcoming shows? So that's just what I've been doing over the last few... read more.

• March 23, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Business Blogging

Surely you've heard me talk about Twitter on more than one occasion... if you haven't, and if you're unfamiliar with what the heck Twitter is, suffice it to say it's a free microblogging service that lets users publish 140-max character status updates on a frequent basis. From a social media perspective, however, Twitter can be a tremendous tool for brand marketing your business, your product, your service, or your personal message in general. As far as I'm concerned, there's a right way to tweet... and the... read more.

• March 23, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in e-Marketing

Earlier this week, Yahoo! officially rolled out three new targeting options for its Search Marketing ad platform: demographic targeting, ad scheduling, and enhanced ZIP-level geo-targeting.Chris Crum reported with webpronews.com that the search company is apparently expecting to rock advertisers' minds with these new features.As Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog editor Jeff Sweat contends, "...the new targeting features we're adding right now are kind of a big deal."Here's a brief breakdown of the new features'.... read more.

• March 20, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Gadgets and Technology

As you may already know, I'm big into Twitter right now. Mostly I use it for social media marketing purposes, but I've also found it to be a great news aggregator... sort of like a downward scrolling marquee filled with the latest industry-related buzz.On Tuesday, the industry-related "Tweet Heard ‘Round the World" went a little something like this:"OMGZ FINALLY COPY + PASTE FOR IPHONES!!!!!"Well, more or less.That's right, iBoys and iGirls, on Tuesday, Apple announced that it plans to add copy-and-pa... read more.

• March 18, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in In the News

Last Friday marked the kickoff of the renowned South by Southwest Interactive 2009 festival in Austin, Texas. The sea of music, film, and interactive technologies raged (in a good way) over the weekend and culminated yesterday with a spicy standoff between industry-experts Guy Kawasaki and Chris Anderson. Kawasaki, a venture capitalist and marketing mastermind, and Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, apparently "got rowdy" at Tuesday's final keynote while debating over a topic that's become common... read more.

• March 18, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Website Development

On Tuesday, Stephen Shankland reported with CNET News that Yahoo! is taking corrective steps to appease the "disgruntled" folks who tested, and apparently strongly disliked, the search company's recently refurbished homepage.These corrective steps will take the form of yet another redesigned homepage, one that, according to Shankland, "will dramatically speed up access to e-mail."Right off the bat, I am sure that this new emphasis on email will receive positive feedback from Yahoo surfers. I personally use... read more.

• March 18, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in e-Commerce / Product Sales

Do you sell products in your own e-Commerce store? If you're looking for a revolutionized way to monitor, organize, and archive payments, receipts, order records and invoices, consider integrating our Hudson Horizons e-Commerce solutions into your business. Here at Hudson Horizons, we believe that efficiency leads to productivity. Our variety of online e-Commerce tools will help you organize your business, increase sales, and give clients a confident, enjoyable shopping experience. Our e-Commerce solution... read more.

• March 17, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Social Media Optimization

In today's shaky economy, businesses are cutting back on spending every place they can... one of those places happens to be paid marketing and promotion.As Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst for Forrester Research, even commented, "During a recession, marketers are often forced to reduce budgets, in fact, it's often one of the first buckets to get trimmed."So what's a company to do? Sales require traffic which requires publicity which ties back to marketing. It just so happens that this business recession is u... read more.

• March 16, 2009
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