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Category Archives: Twitter

Tweet Button: a new toy

Thursday, August 12, 2010

I wrote Twitter Lays Claim to the Tweet Button today for BlogHer. A new Tweet Button is just a new toy. It must be tried out. I’m trying it here on Web Teacher. On this blog, it seems best to continue to use the Topsy Retweet Button plug in for WordPress on the home page. [...]

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Can Twitter’s new Suggestions for You Feature make you a power Tweeter?

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

With Discovering Who to Follow, Twitter let the world know that things were changing in Twitterland. The change is the addition of Suggestions for You to the Twitter Find People menu. The suggestions are personalized and based on the people you follow and the people they follow. Recommendations for you also come from account profiles. [...]

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Red Hot Web Teacher Tips

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The butterflies at the Butterfly Pavilion at the Rio Grande Botanical Garden are a treat. The hot stuff for the past week includes How to Look like a Wiz with RGBa Style a Fieldset with Rounded Corners using CSS Is this support call hilarious? What do you think? Styling a fieldset with CSS Playing with [...]

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Useful links: Documentation, help files, child bloggers

Friday, June 11, 2010

Talk documentation to me lists some common sense steps for documenting a process. One of my pet peeves around the explosion of web apps, iPhone apps, and explosive new tools like Twitter is that the documentation and help information is inadequate. Putting someone in charge of documentation is always a good idea. The Twitter Help [...]

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Burning Questions about Twitter: Answered!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Bonggamom says there are Things About Twitter I’d Like to Know. Since one person’s questions are usually lurking in the minds of others, I thought the answers might be helpful to share. Bonggamom’s first question is “Is there anywhere in the blogosphere that lists down upcoming Twitter parties?” The answer is yes, with limits. Many [...]

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Useful Links: Accessibility tweeps, NFB Complaint, 3G woes

Friday, May 14, 2010

The ultimate “follow Friday” list for accessible tweeps or perhaps it would be more correct to say people who tweet about accessibility.  Oddly, the names in the list are not linked to the relevant twitter pages, making following the suggested people rather labor intensive. One Twitter name on their list is wrong. Tom Babinszki is [...]

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Playing with the BlackBird bookmarklet

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Twitter finally came up with a way to embed a tweet into a web page without having to use a screen grab to get it. They call it Blackbird Pie. Almost within minutes, a handy bookmarklet doing the same task was released. Drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar, find a tweet and click the [...]

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Useful links: Dissected tweets, photo apps, Google places

Thursday, April 22, 2010

This is what a tweet looks like from ReadWriteWeb is the sort of thing that would make a great poster to put in your office. Endlessly fascinating. (When I saw the headline in my RSS reader, I got all excited, because I thought the post would be about Twitterscapes.) Demo Girl has been quiet lately, [...]

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Useful links: liquid layouts, new InterACT courses, InterACT contributors,

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Have you discovered zomigi’s blog? There are wonderful things there, like this collection of 70+ essential resources for liquid and elastic layouts. Six new courses added to the WaSP InterACT curriculum. They are: Writing for the Web, author: Erin Kissane Usability 1, authors: Dara Solomon and Dana Wortman Prototyping, authors: Todd Zaki Warfel and Aarron [...]

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Data Driven Art: Twitterscapes

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

What do you do if you are a web developer with the soul of artist? Do you go home in the evenings, take care of feeding the family and do your household chores, then paint with any remaining time? Caroline C. Blaker does that. But she does something else, too. She takes all that info [...]

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