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<pulls out soapbox, steps up on top, begins rant…> I am TOTALLY blown away by how inconsiderate so many tweeple can be! The eternal optimist in me wants to assume that their rudeness is nothing more than ignorance in disguise. What’s got me in a kerfuffle you might ask? Let me give you the scenario, [...]
As anyone who knows me could tell you, last week I finally took possession of my first smart phone, a BlackBerry Tour 9630. The journey to my BlackBerry was a long one and at times confusing! For some background: I had recently laid to rest my 5th PDA, an HP iPAQ running Windows Mobile. Prior [...]
Love this short article by an English Teaching Franchise Owner in Japan. The majority of us get soooo hung up on Marketing online, that we often overlook the simple marketing things that have worked for all businesses for millennium! A nice surprise at my sports club | Smith’s School of English Soap Box. Way to [...]
Read a great article today @ CTV.ca: CTV.ca | Don’t be a twanker: Common sense should rule with Twitter. The adage of don’t complain cause no one wants to listen, has, does and will always apply in any social setting, including online social media. A rant or pet peeve is one thing, but simply whining [...]
This is a first, to my knowledge, but I highly doubt a last! How Many Twitter Followers Does it Take to Get a Job? – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership. Best Buy may have missed on valid criteria (as one reader commented it should be the @ follows or DMs not followers for the qualifier) [...]
Great article on the possible future of twitter, based on astute observation of other social media tools of the past decade. How Twitter Will Die | Social Commentary: Social Media, Online Marketing, Podcasting, and Your Business. In my opinion the author: Jeremiah Staes brings up many good and valid points however closes the door on [...]
I recently spent bits and pieces of time over the last couple of months searching out and experimenting with various Twitter apps to both, try them out and find something that will assist my tweeting addiction, =o)… Many Twitter Apps are written using Adobe’s new ‘Air’, which provides a beautiful experience but I had a [...]
Another great background from orionsweb… Flowersmeller’s twitter page was looking great, but as with many twitter pages, they look great at very high resolution but for a huge number of browsers they look as this did here: (the background image is cut off by the twitter central content. So we went ahead and, using Flowersmeller’s [...]
Good post by Ashwin, which brings to light a couple of issues that we’re constantly dealing with as SEO’s. 3 WordPress SEO Myths Shattered | Blogging Elements I feel it important, however to point out one possibly dangerous flaw. His first statement regarding Meta tags not being a must. He is correct in his explanation [...]
If you’ve no clue what RDFa is, no problem. If you’re not sure, no problem. If you heard about it and want to know more, again no problem! Came across a great article: RDFa and a Practical Semantic Web which really helped clarify many confusions that I had regarding RDFa, what it is and how [...]