Getting started with content

Often, people make the mistake of starting with the design of a website and jamming the content into the design they pick. We tend to work around this backwards method of site design by first creating a template or framework for the site: colors, logo, fonts, etc. We try to make it as fluid and as flexible as possible, giving the website administrators tools to update content with as little technical encumbrance as possible. However, whenever possible, we try to get the website administrators to engage in the content creation process.

Create a business page (AKA fan page)

Creating a Facebook fan page (or business page) is simple. There are quite a few features available after you have created the fan page, and you can collaborate with other Facebook users by promoting them to admin status.

First, you create the fan page.

Go to the page creation URL

Facebook language change

Facebook language settings

If you find yourself staring at a Facebook page with language you can't read (or gibberish because you haven't installed the language fonts it's displaying), just look to the bottom left hand corner of the Facebook screen and you should see the language next to the Facebook copyright notice.

Language choices

Grocery chain gets internet savvy

Aldi Meals

There are meal planning companies online, pitching savings through planning that help to lower overall grocery meals. This seemed like a brilliant service to me, but I wondered (aloud) why grocery stores weren't using this feature as a free offering to luer and retain customers.

Involver Facebook aps

Many companies are rushing to pick up the premium social media marketing services business. Involver is among this throng, offering services to big clients to beef up social presence, as well as offering automated premium services.

Trial version

Linkedin's paid model

Linkedin fees

As we watch many of these startup dot coms grow, many wonder where's the revenue. Linkedin has a paid model to enable commercial contacts via the Linkedin network dubbed InMail.

unTweeps

Untweeps

Twitter has a lot of dead accounts. Some people want to dump following people that don't tweet. Although if they don't tweet, how annoying can they really be? But, if you want to dump Twitter users that are sloth to tweet, just check out unTweeps, though it's not without its startup bugs.

First, the bugs/annoyances (perceived - update below):

Birthdays on Facebook without a new ap

Facebook settings

Click on the Facebook Applications link, which is on the bottom left corner of your screen. Then, click on Events.

Surf more reliably by using OpenDNS

You can identify bad DNS services by failed links, unresolved websites and the error message that you see if you web browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc. may use different language) is that the URL failed to resolve or the link is broken. This is often not the fault of the website owner, but your local internet provider.

Failed DNS

Yoono makes sharing easier

Yoono SM Browser addon