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31 December

Are your facebook ads useful to you?

Yesterday I happened to glance to the right when I was on Facebook and noticed all the ads targeted directly to me. The ads were exactly what I had been thinking about that day… SEO, and CMS.  Wow. It shouldn’t surprise me. I purchase Facebook ads, Google adwords and Yahoo [...]

30 December
Posted in Technology

End of the film era

I was an early adopter of digital photography using a Sony digital camera that saved photos to a 3.5″ floppy disk. It had bad color and horrible resolution, but it was fast and allowed me to get photos on the web and TV faster than developing film. Although I’ve pretty [...]

29 October
Posted in Politics, Technology

How usable is your electronic ballot?

Are the buttons too big? Is the type too small? Should it be bolded? Is there enough contrast in the color? Is it high enough resolution? As I waited in line to early vote yesterday and watched voters punch at the touchscreen, bend over to get a closer look at [...]

27 October
Posted in Design, Online Media

Survey for people who make websites

I took the survey for people who make websites again. I think I’ve taken it every time they’ve given it. You should take it, too.

26 October
Posted in Me, Social Media

Twitter over capacity for 2 weeks straight

So twitter has been over capacity for me for about 2 weeks. Every time I log-in whether via web site, twitter iPhone app, other iPhone app or third-party web site (hootsuite or cotweet) I get a big fail whale. If I’m not logged in I can browse around but once [...]

17 August

Social media response flow chart

An interesting look at Ohio State University Medical Center decides to respond to social media comments and questions. Social Media Response Flow Chart

29 April

Ten management truths for the web age

Great e-book from web governance consultants WelchmanPierpoint. The Digital Deca: 10 Management Truths for the Web Age eBook View more presentations from WelchmanPierpoint.

29 April
Posted in Politics, Social Media

Social media’s use in Senate elections

Mike Allen shares in interesting report in this morning’s Politico Playbook from the Emerging Media Research Council analyzing social media usage in US Senate elections specifically looking at the Florida Senate race. The draft report outlines three winning social media strategies (which seem pretty much like common sense to me). [...]

7 April
Posted in Advertising

Internet and TV advertising to grow, print to lose

Paid Content is reporting new advertising growth numbers showing overall advertising spending to go up as much as two percent and online ad spending to grow almost 13 percent and TV spending to go up over four percent. At the same time the study predicts newspaper and magazine to lose [...]

24 March
Posted in Technology

Collaboration, innovation, working online gets loud

At work our office is in an open working environment where all the worker bees sit in  these  nice built-in cubicles which are larger than some offices I’ve had in the past.  In the cubicles besides  the web team members there are some other graphic designers,  writers, photographers, videographers from [...]

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