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Social Media

Small Business Website Podcast – New On Expand2Web

August 29, 2009
The Expand2Web small business podcast on iTunes

I‘m pleased to announce my new podcast series for small business owners and consultants – The Expand2Web Podcast – has been accepted in iTunes and is now online!
This podcast is designed for business owners and the consultants who help them build their small business websites.
Knowledge is power. And each week I’ll be doing interviews [...]

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Local Search Summit 09 – Social Media for Local Businesses

August 16, 2009

Hot topic, to be sure. This session had three presenters – Sarah Smith from Facebook, Will Scott from SearchInfluence and Aaron Irizarry.
Here are my brief notes from this session:
Local Facebook Advertising – Sarah Smith
Facebook is helping business target local customers with their advertising. I didn’t realize how much Facebook is doing in this [...]

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Twitter Provides Guide for Business Owners

July 23, 2009
Twitter

Twitter has a page now for business owners called Twitter 101. This page provides a nice, easy to follow description of what Twitter is and how to use it for your business.
The guide covers topics like:

How do businesses use Twitter?
How to get started with Twitter
Learn the lingo (following, retweets, DMs, etc.)
Best practices
Some case studies [...]

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How To Add The Google Friend Connect Social Bar To Your WordPress Website

February 19, 2009

Google Friend Connect released a new “Social Bar” in addition to the member and social gadgets.

In my post How To Add Google Friend Connect to Your WordPress Blog I showed how you can add the members gadget and wall gadget to your WordPress sidebar using the WordPress Widgets capability.
The New Social Bar

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Google Friend Connect Makes Your Site More Social

December 4, 2008

Google made Friend Connect available in beta today for any website to use. Previously it was only available in a limited preview release, and I was excited to be included in that. You can see the Friend Connect Member gadget and Friend Connect Wall gadget on the right sidebar of this blog.
TechCrunch has an insightful [...]

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How To Add Google Friend Connect To Your WordPress Blog

December 3, 2008

Adding Google Friend Connect to your WordPress blog is easy. Friend Connect provides a cool way to add another dimension of “community” to your blog or website. I added it to my sidebar as a WordPress Widget, and I’m starting to see side conversations develop, in addition to the comments on individual blog posts. (This [...]

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Microsoft Office as a Subscription? Introducing Equipt

July 2, 2008

On July 15 Microsoft will start selling an Office productivity package called Equipt for $69.99 annual subscription.  The package includes Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and some other tools.
Note: Office Home and Student includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote (an excellent productivity application that is worth a try.)
I used to [...]

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Understanding Google Friend Connect

June 7, 2008

I’ve been experimenting with Friend Connect for about 4 days now on my blog. So far I’ve made a lot of new friends, and had 13 new people become “members” of my site without having to implement any special membership system. Many of them have left comments too.

This is emerging as an additional way to [...]

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Adobe Flash for the Greater Good – A Special Project

June 7, 2008

One of my friends in my church small group is a pediatrician at Stanford School of Medicine. Last week we were talking about techie sorts of things, as I often like to do
She was telling me about this project she’s working on; trying to make an interactive image of a newborn baby’s chest, [...]

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Trying Out Google Friend Connect on my Blog

June 6, 2008

One of my buddies at Google set me up to get in the Friend Connect program early (thank you!)  So I’ve added it to my blog to play around with it a bit. The idea of Google Friend Connect is to help you add social features to your website, and to see, invite and interact [...]

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