30 thg 6, 2010
June
29 thg 6, 2010
Incentive
25 thg 6, 2010
Q&A Friday: Today's Topic - Twitter & Facebook
One of my dear friends asked me some great questions today about Facebook and Twitter. I’m posting her question and my response below. Happy Friday!
Question:
How common is it for seniors to be twittering and facebooking? Is it rampant?
Should businesses be investing serious ad dollars towards social media just yet?
Response/Recommendations:
Twitter stats as of April, 2010 (as released by Twitter, thank you http://www.BusinessInsider.com for this info)
- 106 million users. It is adding 300,000 per day
- Draws 180 million unique visitors.
- 75% of twitter traffic is outside of Twitter.com (meaning people are accessing it via apps).
- There are 55 million tweets/day
- Twitter’s search engine gets 600 million queries/day
For the reasons above and because Twitter is FREE, I do recommend a business get started on Twitter. Please see previous posts about this topic.
- Experts are actually predicting facebook will be 50+ very soon. The average age on FB (as of Feb '10) was 44 yrs old ( http://www.viralhousingfix.com/2010/02/23/average-age-on-facebook-44-average-age-of-social-media-users-38/)
- For more Facebook user info/analytics, please visit this amazing page! http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/facebook-statistics-facts-figures-for-2010/
- Advertising on facebook via banner ads does require an investment, but just creating a FB biz page/group is free. Here's a post I made about setting up a FB fan page (just links to good articles): http://strategiconlinemarketing.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-improve-your-facebook-fan-page.html
- If they are serious about FB advertising, read this article:
- http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/06/facebook-advertising-laws-2/.
Have a great weekend, all!
Laura
23 thg 6, 2010
Kevin Rudd
21 thg 6, 2010
M1
17 thg 6, 2010
Links
16 thg 6, 2010
200-day MA
15 thg 6, 2010
Looking for a Striking Website or Blog Background?
Your website or blog background is often underestimated in terms of what a striking effect it can have on your overall design. Don’t believe me? Take a look at this inspirational post that features 25 beautiful websites with striking backgrounds: http://dzineblog.com/2008/06/25-websites-beautiful-bg.html
- http://www.dinpattern.com/ - I like how you can test the background out on their website to get an idea of the effect.
- http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/40-beautiful-patterns-and-textures-for-ornate-backgrounds - if you like patterened/antique/scrapbook type paper, there is potential here
- http://citrusmoon.typepad.com/citrusmoon/ - this website hasn’t been updated in years but still has some striking designs
- http://www.backgroundlabs.com – a little cutesy for me
Of course, if you’re looking for blogger backgrounds, there’s lots to choose from! A few of my faves below.
Blogger Backgrounds:
13 thg 6, 2010
How to Make a Blog Button with Corresponding Code

A great way to generate traffic to your blog is to create a blog button so that visitors to your blog can very easily copy and paste the button code you've provided onto their own blog or website. This is often a reciprocal swap, where you'll also place buttons to blogs you're a fan of on your own blog as well.
I've taken the html guesswork out of the process, so no worries if you aren't comfortable with coding. Steps below...
How to Create a Blog Button:
1. Create your blog button graphic itself (sized 125 pixels by 125 pixels) using a graphics program such as photoshop.
2. Save the image as a jpg or gif, then upload it to a photo-sharing website (such as http://www.imageshack.us/) that gives you the option to grab the direct html image code link. Leave this window open on your browser so you can come back and copy the html image code it assigns your uploaded button.
3. Open notepad/wordpad/word on your computer.
4. Paste the text below into notepad/wordpad/word
<img src="http://www.image-url-goes-here.com" /><br> <textarea name="textarea" cols="13" rows="9"><a href="http://www.your-blog-url-goes-here.com" /><img src="http://www.image-url-goes-here.com" /></textarea> |
5. Replace the image src code in red with your direct html image code (copied from the photo-sharing website)
6. Replace the a href code in red with your website link (be sure to use http:// format)
7. You’re ready to copy and paste the entire string of code into your blogging layout.
8. If you’re using blogger, go to design/add a gadget/select “html/javascript”, then paste your code into the box.
9. Preview your changes and save if everything appears correctly.
You're all set! If you've followed the steps above, you've created your own blog button!
11 thg 6, 2010
23 Images from AT&T's "Hands" Striking Ad Campaign
If you haven't had the opportunity to see the AT&T global ad campaign featuring painted hands, I've included a gallery below for you. I'd seen it featured on various blogs/journals/sites but few included a large gallery like below. It's always amazing to see beautiful artwork and a striking concept put to work.
World Cup 2010
Update (15/6): ...."We analyse goal-scoring in more than 1500 important football matches played by the national teams of Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands since 1960."
8 thg 6, 2010
Eventbrite Put to the Test

Last night I gave myself the challenge of setting up both upcoming Main Street Latin Festival events using Eventbrite (the Kick Off and After Parties). I timed myself, and it took me less than 2 1/2 hours from start-to-finish. That includes cross-promoting the events on the Festival homepage with graphics and sending an email with a summary to the client. Now that I have experience with Eventbrite, creating additional events will take even less time.
Top 10 Things I Love About Eventbrite...
7. Tickets are a breeze - the system has a few different ticketing options. You can set it up to have a confirmation email automatically delivered to the customer with their printable ticket.
and http://mainstreetlatinfestivalafterparty.eventbrite.com/).
To view the events I created, look at the top of the MSLF website. If you live in or around Columbia, SC, the festival should definitely be on your list of things to do this August!
Now I can use the time I saved to promote the Festival!