Author Archives: Ron Boyd

How Many Twitter Followers Does it Take to Get a Job?

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) [...]

How Twitter Will Die

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 [...]

Adobe Air Apps crashing Windows on install?

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 [...]

twitter.com/flowersmeller

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 [...]

3 SEO Myths Shattered | Blogging Elements

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 [...]

RDFa and a Practical Semantic Web

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 [...]

Can the geographic location of a web server affect organic SEO

Got this as a tweet out from @MattCutts this afternoon. I also subscribe to the GoogleWebmasterHelp’s Channel on Youtube, if SEO is your business you can get a ton of helpful tips there. This is an oft asked question with a simple answer, yes. But pay attention when he mentions cTLDs (country extensions) they also [...]

Google unveils research on executive Internet use :: BtoB Magazine

Came across this b2b article (thank you @davidbullock for the tweet). All I can says is THANK YOU Google once again.. this time for actual research! Now I can just point all those nay-sayers to this article.. Business DOES use Social Media.. Tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN and the link are essential in todays world.. [...]

Coleman Web Store – Bad Example

A fellow Scouter forwarded me an announcement they received today about the opening of Coleman’s new online ecommerce store for Canada, http://www.colemanwebstore.ca! I enjoy shopping online whenever I can, and we’re actually looking to upgrade some of the Cubs camping equipment soon. So off I go to the site.. First impression, not too bad, aesthetically [...]

New! Twitter Page Customization!

Orion’s Web is now offering Twitter Page Customization! From as little as $75 we will take imagery of your choosing or your company website, and translate it to a custom twitter page background. Give your followers more information about you and what you do! Take a look at our twitter page to see a simple [...]