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Category Archives: SocialMedia

Useful Links: Handy, Google+, Captioning, usability tests, CSS3 Please

Friday, July 1, 2011

One Page Apps I Actually Use from CSS Tricks has several very helpful links for designers. You may want to keep them handy. I haven’t received an invite to Google+ yet, but I’m looking at other people’s reports on it. It’s so similar to Facebook, even though people are comparing it with Google WAVE. If [...]

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Useful links: Triberr, Hidden, WebVTT

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

That Tech Chick has a post about a new social tool called Triberr. You might want to give it a spin to see if it increases traffic to your blog. Hidden is a nice app for Macs. If your Mac is stolen, it sends you a location and photos of the thief. Recent developments around [...]

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Useful links: two from danah, WordPress + InDesign, Pride

Monday, June 20, 2011

Two new posts from danah boyd are worth reading. “Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry” (my RWW talk) and “Networked Privacy” (my PDF talk). The Bangor Daily News is now running on WordPress with integrated InDesign. Interesting. Wonder if they’ve written up how they are doing it – I’ll bet a lot [...]

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7 Things Social Media Has Taught Me About Life

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Guest blogger Mariana Fang Lin is an avid blogger and writes throughout the blogosphere. She’s most interested in social media, web hosting services, mobile marketing, and Internet marketing strategy. You can follow Mariana on Twitter here. Some things about Social Media Networking that offered real insight in this crazy little thing we call life: 1) [...]

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Useful Links: Games for Change, Jet Blue, HTML5 Template, Urban Outfitters

Friday, May 27, 2011

Find out about the Games for Change event this June. Getting the jetBlues. Derek Featherstone explains why Jet Blue is being sued for having an inaccessible web site. A basic HTML5 Template shows you the skeleton of an HTML5  page. Re the Urban Outfitters copying designs and the power of social media: Sharing Gets More [...]

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The election will be on Facebook

Monday, April 4, 2011

Here in my home state, longtime Senate Democrat Jeff Bingaman has announced he’s stepping down. Several people have already stepped up to announce that they will be running for the vacant Senate seat. Among them is Martin Heinrich, a Democrat currently serving in the House. How did Heinrich announce? On his Facebook page. The President [...]

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Yahoo research on Twitter: Who’s Talking, Who’s Listening?

Monday, March 28, 2011

Yahoo! Research just published a lengthy study about Who Says What to Whom on Twitter. They used Twitter Lists to find what they called elite users, and based their conclusions on that data set. The results of the research are available in a hard-to-read PDF file with some interesting charts and graphs. Here’s the summary [...]

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Useful links: Net Neutrality, PR pitches, data mapping

Thursday, March 24, 2011

NTC Plenary: Moira Gunn and Rep Donna Edwards on Net Neutrality is an interesting account of an important conversation. I feel kind of bad now from The Bloggess (language warning whenever The Bloggess is involved) is funny but a perfect reflection of the kind of crazy PR email bloggers receive all the time. Jenny’s tactics [...]

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Useful links: Interactions, Mary Sue, Steampunk, Biz Stone

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Visualizing First-Time Interactions at SXSW from Pleasure and Pain is another of those charts of hubs, connections, and connectors that is so fascinating. This time it uses contacts made via Hashable. The Mary Sue is a new blog devoted to female geek culture. I’ve been watching them a couple of weeks and have seen several [...]

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Blogger gets a makeover

Friday, March 18, 2011

[Ed.: This article was cross-posted at BlogHer.] At SXSW Interactive this week, Google announced a refresh of the interface for its popular Blogger blogging platform. The software hasn’t been updated in years, although it remains one of the most popular blogging tools on the Web. Blogger Product Manager Chang Kim calls the refresh “our next-generation [...]

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