Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

For all of the greatness that the internet affords -- cute animal videos, GIFs, and interesting blogs -- I think its biggest downside is how distracting it can be. How many times have you sat down to work and been pulled into a pit of procrastination?

Perhaps you get absorbed in updates on social media, or maybe you click through Wikipedia trying to determine what exactly Gina Rodriguez’s first TV role was (it was on Law & Order).

No matter where you click online, it’s easy to be pulled into a black hole of distraction andlow productivity.Enter Google Chrome browser extensions. The Google Chrome web store offers a variety of different tools that help you be more productive with just one click.

We can’t guarantee that they will make YouTube videos less tempting to watch, but we recommend them for busy marketers who want to make their time online more efficient.

We’ve broken them down into different categories if you want to jump ahead:...

A huge amount of time in a content marketer’s day is spent perusing the web. Having your browser perfectly armored with great plug-ins and extensions helps you save time, be more productive, and generally make your work much, much easier. It also is crucial to know how to make the most of available tools in optimizing each step of your efforts.

Here are my favorite choices of the best available browser extensions and how their features can make a content marketer’s life much easier. Each browser link listed connects directly to the extension for easy add-on....

Yes, this is another list of the best Google Chrome Extensions. You’ve seen it all before, right? Well, we thought we had too. But new extensions are continually emerging that can drastically change the day-to-day habits of social media marketers. Plus, a few classic extensions have undergone impressive upgrades.

Check out this list of 18 of the best Google Chrome extensions for social media marketers, and start saving some valuable time and effort at work.

If you are a Google Chrome user, there is good news for you. Your web browser is about to get faster and better than ever, all thanks to a new data compression algorithm that Google is planning to roll out soon.

Google employee Ilya Grigorik took to Google+ to describe the advent of Brotli compression algorithm. This new algorithm will replace the existing one, which is called Zopfli. Brotli was announced last year in September, and according to Google's internal benchmarks, it works faster than all existing data compression algorithms, and can compress data by 17-25% extra, as compared to Zopfli. Furthermore, its compression ratio is almost 25% better than all other data compression algorithms....