Monthly Archives: September 2010

Social Media / Twitter

Organizing Your Twitter Environment—Part 4 of 4

Hello again. One thing I’ve learned to expect is that, just as I get used to a site being one way, it will inevitably change. Twitter has changed its look, and some of the information I gave you last time about the location of featurees, is now out-of-date if you’re using the New Twitter. Your Timeline, Retweets, @Mentions, Searaches and Lists are now at the top of your Home page. One new feature that I like, under Retweets, is that they are now organized by Retweets by you, Retweets by others, and Retweets of Your Retweets.

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09/29/2010
Business / Facebook / Google / LinkedIN / Marketing / SEO / Social Media / Twitter / Yahoo

Monitoring Your Brand on The Web

Your Brand On The Web

The internet is a powerful playground for both personal and business relations.  Others can talk about you or your business without your awareness and create negative press around your brand.  Business owners in particular of various industries should be primarily concerned when it comes to monitoring your brand on the web.  Bad feedback about your brand can create a sense of uncertainty with your customers in relation to your products or services that your business offers.  In today’s day and age social media remains the #1 communication channel where consumers go for comparison shopping, research, & networking with others.

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09/24/2010
Joomla / Web Development

Creating Menu Navigation In Your Joomla Website

Menu Creation in Joomla
Menu Creation in Joomla

Joomla truly offers a great platform for anyone interested in building quality and professional websites.  For someone like me who has been using the content management system for over 5 years I’m finding out more features and capabilities that I wasn’t aware of previously.  The continuous development of the application and the upcoming launch of Joomla 1.6 will truly redefine the web development industry.  The days of hard coding pages and static menus are long gone simply due to time and money.  One particular addition to your Joomla website that you should have is the ability to create menus with an ease.

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09/22/2010
Facebook / LinkedIN / Social Media / Twitter

Advanced Social Media Profile Management

SocialOomph
SocialOomph

The craziness and interest in social media continues to rise as most see the potential in this type of marketing. Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIN – each are gaining more users than ever before as consumers are seeing the need to communicate on the internet. When it comes to managing your social media profiles the process can be rather challenging. While there are several advanced social media profile management tools that will help you better manage and monetize your social media profiles there are only a hand full that are actually worth your time.  The best thing about most of the social media management tools available out there is that they’re FREE.  No need to dig deep into your pockets for this one Mr. CEO of Big Company America.

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09/20/2010
Facebook / Social Media

Utilizing Your Facebook Fan Page

Your Facebook Fan PageThere’s a new fan page popping up every second.  It seems that way anyway with all the fuss and buzz around Facebook.  Now that there are over 500 million users on the social media platform everyone’s trying to make a social media star out of themselves.  You can’t blame people for trying though just like the rest of us that are trying to get a piece of the pie.  Utilizing your facebook fan page takes a whole lot more activity than just creating the page itself.  Frankly flaunting around your Facebook page url doesn’t mean squad if you don’t have anything on the page itself.

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09/17/2010
Business / Social Media / Twitter

Twitter For “Fine Aged Wine’s”, Third Installment

Twitter Navigation
Twitter Bird from designkode

Twitterpated? Relax. You Don’t Have to Know Everything.

This is the third installment in my series about using Twitter, aimed primarily at people like myself, living in the “Fine Aged Wine” zone (that is, over 50). I liken my approach to the old radio show “News Read Real Slow”, because I know that there are a lot of people who are just getting started, and the last thing you want me to do is bombard you with new and confusing technical terms.  Something happened the other day which highlighted this approach for me. I was chatting with one of my “guru’s”, and he happened to mention a term with which I was unfamiliar. I had to stop and make a decision. Go ahead and admit my ignorance, and maybe learn something new, or ignore it. I realized at that moment that, although I think I’m picking up a lot of information in a short time, that the technologies related to the social media experience just keep racing along. Sometimes I feel that they are leaving me in the dust. So, in response, I did three things:

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09/16/2010
Joomla / Tutorials / Web Development

Building a Social Community Using Joomla

JomSocial Component for Joomla

The social media wave has taken over the World and remains to grow even more. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIN are only gaining more usage on daily basis. In order to properly and effectively community on these social media platforms you will need to ensure that your website provides plenty of valuable content to its visitors.  Joomla remains to be one of the best content management systems available today that can help you build your own social community.  Naturally it’s not something that you can whip up in one day and call it a final product.  This will require some basic knowledge of the Joomla! Content Management System before you can proceed any further.

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09/16/2010
Business / Marketing

How Important Is Your Website to Your Audience

Website Importance
Website Importance

Today I got a chance to view one of the latest posts from David Siteman Garland who also runs and operates TheRiseToTheTop.com Actually to be quite honest it’s one of the main reasons that I decided to write this post before the end of the day was over.  How Important Is Your Website to Your Audience? – You tell me!  The Web 2.0 era and soon web 3.0 is only expanding and will get to a point where we won’t be able to live without it in day-to-day communication and operations.  There are many websites out there that are utilizing all marketing channels such as Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIN and aren’t seeing results that they had expected.

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09/15/2010
Browsers / Internet Explorer / Web Development

Take Internet Explorer 9.0 (BETA) for a Test Drive

Internet Explorer 9.0

As Microsoft nears the fourth release of Internet Explorer 9.0 on September 15, 2010 the jig is up.  The competition for a top performing browser has been on-the-run for some time as powerhouse giants such as Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, & Apple’s Safari are dominating the market.  Consumers are in a dying need of a browser that can perform well on the web and mobile devices.  The chances of exceeding those expectations are, well…..not quite there yet sadly to say.  Although Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 claims to deliver industry leading functionality with its official upcoming release of the IE 9.0 on September 15, 2010.  While I was out and about on the web scoping out the hidden potential I came across this good find and thought I’d share with you fine folks (You, the reader!).

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09/10/2010
Browsers / FireFox / Web Development

Remain Cautious of FireFox 3.5.11

FireFox 3.5.11 Bookmarks Issues

Recently I created a new blog post about the comparison of all top web browsers that are available on the web.  This particular one actually pertains to remaining cautious of FireFox 3.5.11 and how it has royally screwed up my desktop.  Well, I shouldn’t quite say “royally” as some may get offended by the language.  Although it has now been about a week since I upgraded to FireFox 3.5.11 and yet to find a trace of my long lost bookmarks.  That’s right folks!  I’ve lost approximately two years worth of bookmarked pages and resource information due to this upgrade.  This is one of those times that I’ll probably get a response on this post stating something along the lines of “Why not use an online service to store your bookmarks?” Exactly!  Why didn’t I use an online bookmarks storage service?

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09/07/2010

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