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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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
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.
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). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]