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How I Get The Most Out Of TweetDeck
As soon as the first Twitter clients allowed for multiple column views I was on board. I bounced between Seesmic, TweetDeck and HootSuite but always came back to TweetDeck. So while these clients can achieve similar functionality I will be talking about how I specifically use TweetDeck. Managing Multiple Accounts The main reason I started using TweetDeck was to manage multiple accounts. I use it to manage JonDBishop, SocialMediaComm, BostonWP, SocializeWP and a few others I use for testing. The first column in my TweetDeck is my public stream...
read moreMaking Your Website Social
This post was written by Jon Bishop and Zac Champigny (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter). Zac is an Online Marketing Strategist with several years of experience working with online technologies. He recently spent 6 months in Medellin, Colombia expanding his knowledge of marketing, SEO, branding, social media, and business on the front lines of an up and coming website. How Do You Make Your Website Social? It’s a popular question with a not so straightforward answer. With everyone talking about social media, how can websites easily adopt...
read moreCreating Presentations With Custom Post Types
I wanted to come up with a cool way to showcase how powerful custom post types were for the Boston WordPress meetup. So I put together a quick little plugin that showcases: Creating custom post types Creating custom taxonomies Creating custom labels for your custom post type Creating contextual help for your custom post type Using a custom template in a plugin for your custom post type Sorting and displaying content in our custom post types in a unique way What I came up with was a presentation plugin that uses Google’s html5slide...
read moreWhy You Should Check Out Your Local WordPress Meetup
I recently joined Kurt Eng as an organizer of the Boston WordPress Meetup. I also got to help organize and run this past Boston WordCamp. I’m pretty excited because I love the meetups as they are and I looking forward to contributing any way I can. If you haven’t been to a WordPress meetup yet I wanted share why you should care and why you should be attending. Keeping Up With WordPress A few months ago, I wrote a post discussing all the ways I keep up with developments in the WordPress community. Stephen Kane from the Orange...
read moreGetting The Most Out Of Your RSS Reader: Finding The Most Relevant Content
As I explained in my last post, I’ve got about an hour before I get to work where I need to consume as much content as possible. Ideally I would like to get to the good stuff as quick as I can. I’m going to share a few ways I make the most out of my time on the T in hopes that it can help you. Using TweetMeme If you don’t know TweetMeme yet, they made a name for themselves by aggregating all of the most popular links on Twitter. Later iterations of the site organized links by category so you can see all popular links within...
read moreGetting The Most Out Of Your RSS Reader: Full Posts Instead Of Summaries
Keeping up with all of your favorite blogs and news sites can be time-consuming. There are new blogs with amazing content popping up every day and it can get very hard to keep track of them all. Most people subscribe to the RSS feeds of their favorite sites so they can read them all in an RSS feed reader like Google Reader. This works great for the most part except some sites don’t offer up the entire posts in their feeds. Why would someone do such a thing? Sites usually display summaries in their feeds in hopes that you will...
read moreKeeping Up With WordPress
There are tons of ways to keep up with developments in the WordPress community. In this post I wanted to share some of my favorite sources of information when it comes to WordPress. If you follow me on Twitter you’ll notice I retweet these sites regularly and that’s because they put out great content in a timely fashion. I’ve also been mixing it up lately with podcasts and IRC so I’ve included them in this list as well. Finally, at the end of this post I share some additional resources as well as a Google Reader bundle...
read moreHow To Make Social Sharing Buttons Display Faster and Measure Their Effectiveness
As a follow up to “Which Bookmarking & Sharing Buttons Should I Display On My Site“, I wanted to talk a bit about how to make those buttons display faster and how to measure their effectiveness. This is my first blog post at my new job and I wanted to share it with my readers here. Read Getting The Most Out Of Your Sharing Buttons...
read moreGetting Ready For Social Media in 2012
I attended an AMA event a few weeks ago where Tomeeka Farrington spoke about The Future of Social Media. As we continue to scratch the surface of how the internet can enable us to connect and share with others around the world it’s important to continue to innovate and expand upon these ideas to make them better. Here are some highlights from the presentation and some thoughts of my own on what to expect in marketing and social media in 2012. Optimize For Mobile More and more people are using their mobile devices to browse the web. The...
read moreAutomating The Internet With ifttt
A relatively new site has peaked my interest called ifttt (If This Than That). I never really fully embraced a social media automation tool until now. What really sets this site apart from the rest is the amount of power it puts in the hands of normal internet users that previously had few ways to interact with the growing number of public social media APIs out there. This mixed in with some ifttt tools to allow you to send text messages, set timers and even convert voicemails to text makes ifttt my new favorite productivity tool. How Does It...
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