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Web Applications

Bring Social Media Comments Into Your WordPress Blog

Bring Social Media Comments Into Your WordPress Blog

April 14, 2009

Backtype, a web site that allows you to find and follow comments from across the web has recently released their first crack at a WordPress plugin. Installing the plugin to your WordPress blog allows you to show conversation and comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and more related to your content. Users can then [...]

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Twitter Enlightenment for Business Owners

Twitter Enlightenment for Business Owners

February 28, 2009

You’re confused and I know it. The increase in questions I’ve been getting lately from small or home business owners confused about how to tackle the Twitter service is astounding.
I’m sensing that the crossover from Twitter being a “geek-only” tool and then partially spread into the mainstream has started to hit full-throttle [...]

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HOW TO: Survive the Twitter Effect

HOW TO: Survive the Twitter Effect

February 12, 2009

“The Twitter Effect” – also known as The Mashable Effect or The Digg Effect – as become a topic of conversation lately due to a handful of blogs being taken offline from the amount of traffic instantaneously sent to them from Twitter.
The basics of the effect are this:  a link is posted by someone on [...]

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Webmasters: How To Switch Your Feedburner Feed to Google

Webmasters: How To Switch Your Feedburner Feed to Google

January 22, 2009

This is something I’ve been putting off until now.  It may even be something you don’t know about yet!  Feedburner, a tool many of us use to keep track of our RSS feeds, was purchased by Google in May of 2007.  It is now being rolled-up on the Google brand, forcing all users of it’s [...]

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Why I Switched to GetResponse from Aweber

Why I Switched to GetResponse from Aweber

December 9, 2008

With RSS feeds, Twitter, and all sorts of other instant communication, email still tops the list of the best broad-contact method marketers use to get response from their base of customers or fans.  My journey through different autoresponders has often landed back to GetResponse vs. Aweber.
The money is in your list!  So, it’s fair to [...]

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Send a File That’s Too Big for Email

Send a File That’s Too Big for Email

March 21, 2008

I’ve seen lots of cool sites that allow you to send someone a file that may be too big for email.  What if you have 20 pictures from your camera you want to send to your brother?  You have a couple choices… either zip them up and hope your email client doesn’t reject them… you [...]

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