Twitter is both a great information gathering resource and effective communication tool, but it is easy to become overwhelmed with what the service puts in front of you. Many Twitter users enthusiastically follow other users early on, only to find that their timeline is now moving too fast and they can’t find the tweets and users that are really important to them. The solution for many is to unfollow Twitter users, and many go one step further and give up on the medium altogether. Twitter lists to the rescue, in October 2009 Twitter introduced the lists feature.
Archive for October 2010
Which style of business person are you?
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Last week I had the pleasure of attending a speech by Ken Blanchard at Centrallia. He is a famous speaker and he had some interesting guidelines for business. His philosophy is money does not mean everything and being a good person in life is more important than any wealth that is achieved throughout one’s life.
Social Statistics to be aware of
Monday, October 18th, 2010I visited a client last week that mentioned they do not have the internal staff to implement a social media strategy. I recommended having a plan to develop staff that can be involved in their social media strategy. I mentioned that social media is not going away and just like websites and search engine optimization you will have to implement a strategy for this component of online marketing. He agreed but if he said why I would have mentioned a couple of these stats:
- Number of people joining LinkedIn daily: 67,000+
- People on Facebook worldwide: 520,000,000
A JavaScript Implementation of Symfony’s url_for()
Friday, October 15th, 2010While developing a UI that makes heavy use of use of JavaScript I found myself sending and receiving Doctrine_Record‘s as JSON. It became tedious making URL’s available for various Symfony actions in JavaScript so I sought to find a way to create a helper like Symfony’s url_for() in JavaScript. This post describes how I made Symfony’s routing available in JavaScript.
The Value of Search Engines to the Traditional Marketer
Thursday, October 14th, 2010People not only make purchases online, but conduct research to influence and dictate purchase decisions. If you have potential customers within your target market using the internet in this way, the goal is to have your company name, products and/or services in front of those potential customers.
Are you a sales driven organization?
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010A sales driven organization starts from the top and works its way down. Generally if a President or CEO is involved in sales they will have a better understanding of how important and effective it can be to be a sales driven organization. Every job I have ever had has been focused on putting sales in front of other internal tasks. Lets face it, sales is the life blood of your company. Without sales the organization will slowly die.
Website Design – Right in the Browser
Friday, October 8th, 2010Several of my colleagues at the Web Shop have recently independently stumbled upon a couple of articles that talk about an innovative concept: Designing websites right in the web browser. The topic managed to find its way into several conversations here over the last little while, and I thought I would keep the conversation going, and bring it online to potentially include a larger number of people in the conversation.





