Social Media Technology

"It’s time to stop thinking of computer programming as a specialty subject. Schools should respect it..."

pauli08 — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:52:51 -0400

“It’s time to stop thinking of computer programming as a specialty subject. Schools should respect it as a fundamental skill.”

- Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)

downyonderfla: Distinguished Entrepreneur of Southwest Florida...

pauli08 — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:39:58 -0400

downyonderfla:

Distinguished Entrepreneur of Southwest Florida - May 22! http://bit.ly/1044tE3

Why Path is about to explode and Facebook takes a hit by AGBeat

pauli08 — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:34:00 -0400

Why Path is about to explode as Facebook takes a hit (via AGBeat)

Path – three year old app getting hot Path was launched in 2010 as a simple and private way to share life with close friends and family only, going back to the origins of why so many people loved social networking prior to it becoming mainstream – it used to feel like a small town with your closest…

Article posted through “RePost” as a test. ^@bph

Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Upload your PowerPoint

pauli08 — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:28:00 -0400

Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Upload your PowerPoint:

Birgit Pauli-Haack published on Google+ a Slideshow with on how to upload and display PowerPoints on Google+

downyonderfla: Smart business owners today know being online is...

pauli08 — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:25:35 -0400

downyonderfla:

Smart business owners today know being online is part of business and content is king! http://bit.ly/10jRs3n

Flying objects with mounted camera filmed part of the footage in...

pauli08 — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:27:18 -0400

Flying objects with mounted camera filmed part of the footage in this video. It’s a great way to capture an outdoor event. This video was made during 2012 Thanksgiving “Six-A-Side” Tournament on the grounds of the Sarasota International Cricket Club.

It also shows the parade of cars from the members of the British Car Club, who use the grounds for their annual Thanksgiving Picnic on Sunday.

You can also find them on Facebook

Only recently the club released a new website: Sarasota Internation Cricket Club, where they announce the information for the 2013 Six-A-Side Tournament

The website was made through Wix services, another free service for DIY websites.

On Wix website we learned that “more than 23 million websites (and still counting) have been created using the Wix platform and one million new users sign up for Wix each month.”

The business model seems to copy most of WordPress.com model, with add-ons as Premier services. The adjacent App Store caters to developers to build additional features. There seems to be extensive documentation for developers to build WiX Apps. We will explore this part of the services and will report in the next few weeks.

Disclosure: Since 2008, my husband, Christian Haack, and I made annual trips to the Six a Side Tournament on Thanksgiving Sunday and have a great time with our friends at the Sarasota International Cricket Club.

"Content creators should take note – but certainly not forget about organic search all together...."

pauli08 — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:49:07 -0400

““Content creators should take note – but certainly not forget about organic search all together. ‘Image optimization,’ if there is such a phrase, may be an additional form of SEO, but definitely not a replacement for keyword building as Google organic traffic still sends almost half of the traffic to the websites in our data set,” explained Shareaholic. “Pinterest also beat out StumbleUpon, which has long been a significant source for content discovery and driver of traffic. But if image surfing is the preferred form of content discovery, it may be something content creators want to think about.””

- Relevanza: Pinterest referrals continue to eclipse other platforms (via eatdrinkmedia)

You can sign-up for Facebook’s new Graph Search beta at...

pauli08 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:20:11 -0500

You can sign-up for Facebook’s new Graph Search beta at this location:

https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch

You need to scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “Join Waiting List”.

After all the media buzz, you still might not be able to see Facebook Graph Search, the search engine that will allow you to search Facebook for information that was shared by your friends, where they dine, what they read, which link they shared in 1998.

For now Facebook keeps the Graph Search in beta with only a few people able to use it; people like Robert Scoble (see his answer to a Quora question, which is a comparison of search results for restaurant on Facebook New Graph Search, Google, Yelp and Foursquare.

Sunrise: Introducing Sunrise People.

pauli08 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:41:50 -0500

Sunrise: Introducing Sunrise People.:

sunrise-app:

Today, we are happy to launch a new feature to help making your life a little bit easier: People.

Remember the last time you were trying to know more about the people you’re about to meet in 10 minutes? What company they are working for? Where did they go to school? Or even how they look like?

…

Customize Your Twitter Brand and With New Header Image We have...

pauli08 — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:00:53 -0500

Customize Your Twitter Brand and With New Header Image

We have yet another great change for brands on Twitter.

You can now use more graphical tools to show off your brand’s image and be consistant over all devices. The changes have been rolled out to all Twitter users for a few days now and we have been experiementing with them in different ways.

To view all the possibilities on one sheet of paper, here is the link to Twitter’s One-Page Information Sheet

Your Portfolio: How to use Pinterest for Inbound Marketing of your Company's website.

pauli08 — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:00:46 -0500

Your Portfolio: How to use Pinterest for Inbound Marketing of your Company's website.:

Okay, so you have a collection of photos, various kinds of photos published on your website.

Preferably, you have a page of your site devoted to a single photo. Or, at least, you have one major photo per page.

With the arrival and fantastic growth of social platforms like Pinterest(especially), Instagram and, even, GooglePlus, photos have become a very valuable currency on the social spaces. The tension between words and pictures as always been great, regardless of medium, but in the social media, photos become not only intriguing and pleasing for the eyes but they can also be the pathway back to your website.

Positive spaces and the Tumblr ecosystem - on...

pauli08 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:14:00 -0500

Positive spaces and the Tumblr ecosystem - on Livestream.com

“20 Billion monthly pages view”

Matthew Ingram interviews with David Karp about tumblr - covering the genesis of the site and What’s next.

Ingram adds the thought that young people seem to abandoning facebook for tumblr.

(via iTech Students of Multi-Media Design) It was a great...

pauli08 — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:41:44 -0400

(via iTech Students of Multi-Media Design)

It was a great morning spent in Immokalee with 25+ multi-media students from iTech. Hope to go back soon again to tech more advanced WordPress and train the first two Interns for NFN4Good.

Get ready to claim your Vanity URL on Google+

pauli08 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:46:00 -0400

Get ready to claim your Vanity URL on Google+:

Over last few days, Google has invited early Google Profile users to claim a vanity URL, and left those not invited wondering how this all might work.

We have received questions from “Do you know the link where one can claim a vanity URL?”; to, “can we call someone?”. This evening, I received my notification to claim my Google+ URL: “www.google.com/+BirgitPauli-Haack”.

Read the full post on Relevanza blog by Birgit Pauli-Haack

"If it has a UPC code, Amazon will beat you"

pauli08 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:55:00 -0400

“If it has a UPC code, Amazon will beat you”

- E-commerce startups - Chris Dixon (via fred-wilson)

My comment: So true!!!

Amazon has a unique relationship to your customers:

Trusted

True

Best Price

Fast site

Already registered

Best recommendation engine

No hassle returns…

What else? You tell me?

Wouldn’t it be just prudent for your to use as payment/online store Amazon’s site? The provide it as white label service to online retailers for years.

Introducing Pulse for the Web

pauli08 — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:00:09 -0400

Introducing Pulse for the Web:

Absolutely beautiful. I have been using Pulse for my daily/weekly reading list on any of my mobile devices: Android, iPhone, iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire and it performs on all of them without any problem. Sharing works very well with any of the social networks.

Now their web version is finally public and I posted a screenshot of my collection

pulsenews:

Two years ago, we released Pulse for iPad to make browsing news on mobile devices faster, simpler and more beautiful than ever before. It wasn’t long until our users let us know that the problem we solved wasn’t confined to mobile devices. Even on the web, people have to bookmark their…

What are the steps to take to follow someone on twitter when you only have their name? Thanks! Julie Ledbetter

pauli08 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:40:00 -0400

Hi Julie! Welcome back to our site!
Twitter Search can be tough, when there isn’t enough information it will give you a list of people with the same name. If a person is serious about Twitter, she has filled out the profile page with full name and short bio. There should be enough clues to identify the right person to follow.

As you are asking here, I assume the Twitter search didn’t give you enough information to identify the right person. That’s a tough one. There is some “Sherlock”-ing” to be done. I would start with a Google Search to find the person’s website or if she is mentioned on a website. Google search is far broader of course than Twitter. Chances are they published their twitter account on their own website or you find their LinkedIN profile or their Facebook profile. Then you still can connect to the person, just not on Twitter.

I personally have a rule: If I can not find the twitter account of a person within 15 minutes, I assume he or she doesn’t want to be found and has no interest in other people connecting to him or her on Twitter.

Get found on Twitter:

Don’t be an egghead, add your profile picture (headshot works best)
Fill out the profile page with your full name and short bio, with info that is relevant
Add your Twitter account to your website or Facebook or Google+ profile
Add you Twitter account to your e-mail signature

Any other thoughts? What do you do to get found?

It starts with a Blog: SBRN Social Media Summer Series

pauli08 — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:40:00 -0400

Thursday June 21, 2012 - at the Membership Meeting Birgit Pauli-Haack gave a 30 min presentation, on why you should start blogging. In essence: Blogging increases Search Engine Visibility within months and gets your site ready for the Social Web, ready for the sharing economy.

The slideshow is available on slideshare.net:

SBRN: It starts with a Blog or Get your Website ready for the Social Webs

View more presentations from Birgit Pauli-Haack

For a deeper research into low-cost popular Blog Engines read Relevanza’s “4 Best Blog Engines For Small Business & Start-ups”

Also available as PDF on slideshare.net

"I’ve got a few simple frameworks for thinking about things. In social media, one of my main ones is..."

pauli08 — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:36:07 -0400

“I’ve got a few simple frameworks for thinking about things. In social media, one of my main ones is the tenet that 1% of the users will create content, 10% will curate it, and the rest will consume it.”

- Fred Wilson | A VC: Feature Friday: Liking A Checkin (via courtenaybird)
Always good to keep in mind…