I was a paying Hootsuite user for five years, but I cancelled my service last year, and moved to Tweetdeck. Why? Both Hootsuite and Tweetdeck let you set up multiple columns to view live tweets from Twitter lists and searches. With either service, you can be a power-user of Twitter. But which service is better? Tweetdeck or …
Did you update your WordPress website from http to https, and now your Facebook like button disappear? Chances are you are using WooTheme’s shortcode, woo-fblike, for the Facebook like button in your template. (Actually Woothemes is now WooCommerce, so let’s call them by their correct new name). When you update your site to https, the …
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Imagine a service that would automatically tweet all your archived blog posts from this day. It would look at your blog archive to find what you posted on this day one year ago, two years ago, etc. The headline and URL would be automatically tweeted. If there are multiple blog posts, space the tweets an …
We live in an age with an increasing number of bots that are able to alert you of new content online. I have one such bot set up to alert me whenever there are tweets containing the phrase “Chicago Croquet”. When such a tweet appears, my bot sends me an email to let me know. …
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The apps that make your phone’s home screen have special honor. The home screen can hold around 24 to 28 apps. You hand-pick them for easiest access. The other apps on your phone? Buried on secondary pages. Chances are, over the years you fine-tune this list of apps that appear on your home screen. Comparing your home …
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Overwhelmed by the randomness of your Twitter stream? Are there times you wish you could search within your Twitter stream? With a little setup, you can! I was curious how many times the people I follow on twitter use the word “fun” in their tweets. You can search twitter for the word “fun”, but that …
Tired of Facebook picking what articles you see? Do you ever get frustrated by how Facebook often doesn’t show you articles from Pages you really like? Feedly is your answer for following the blogs you enjoy. You get to pick what you see, and you’ll never miss a post! Plus, you can easily mark posts …
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The thing with social log-ins is that I can never remember which network I use to log in. Whenever an email option is given, I always select that. I control my email address, so I know it will never go away. These other social platforms, we are at the whim of these third party companies. …
Make your Chrome browser more flexible and powerful with these handy extensions. I use these eleven Chrome extensions every day. Evernote Web Clipper Save any webpage to Evernote. I use this for almost every single article I read online. Whenever I ask myself, “what was that article I read about XYZ?” I can search my …
The NFL is assigning official hashtags for each of the 32 teams. Anytime someone uses one of these hashtags, an emoji of the team logo appears right next to the hashtag. Tweet out #Broncos, and you’ll get a Broncos emoji next to the hashtag. It’s pretty cute when that happens. Back during the Olympics, whenever …
Sometimes you come across a blog that is just incredible. After reading the latest ten to twenty posts, you want to read more. Instead you subscribe to the blog, figuring you’ll just read the new posts as they come in. An entire untapped archive of posts are waiting to be read. It’s a shame that these older posts won’t get …
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Come across an interesting segment on a podcast? Do you ever want to share one snippet of a long podcast? Right now, it can be a challenge to even find a direct link to the podcast; and impossible to share just the snippet. WYNC is looking to solve this problem of sharing podcast snippets with their …
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Do you find most your ideas end up on Twitter, because it’s much quicker than writing an entire blog post? I’ve certainly fell victim to that. To help myself blog more, I’m going to alter my tweeting procedure. Every time I have something I would like to tweet, instead of heading to Tweetdeck, I’m going …
The Chicago design list is a master Facebook list of 147 Chicago design agencies and design organizations. Follow this list to see what’s happening in the Chicago design scene. Or maybe you can use it to network with other designers in Chicago. I combed through Facebook to find all the design agencies and design organizations in Chicago that …
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Yesterday I outlined how to create a Facebook list of only Pages you want. It’s great, you get a handy list to force Facebook to show you posts that you want to see. But then there’s the chance you don’t even know that a friend has a Page. I put together this list so people can scan …
Tired of how Facebook doesn’t show you posts from your friend’s Facebook Pages? Crazy, right? You are friends with someone, yet you never see what’s on their Facebook Page in your news stream. Here’s how to fix it so Facebook will show you posts from Facebook Pages that YOU specify. Use lists in Facebook–wait–Facebook has lists? …
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If Twitter is going to release an timeline algorithm, then each user should be able to determine the variables used. For my timeline, I would have two variables: 1) Favor people who at-reply other people’s tweets. I don’t want to follow people on Twitter who only tweet and never at-reply other people. If Twitter lets …
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When Twitter rolls out their algorithm timeline to everyone, it looks like there won’t be a way to turn this feature off. However, I will have my own method of turning it off. Turn off Twitter altogether–which I might be doing more of. Twitter has become too much of a consumption thing for me–I spend …
When your account is about to hit a milestone in numbers, do you get nervous what should be your next pin/tweet/post should be? I do. It’s silly, but you want your 1,000th or 10,000th tweet to be something good. My Pinterest account is currently sitting on 2,499 pins. What should be my 2,500th pin?!
Twitter is considering expanding the twitter character limit to 10,000 characters. The average character length for words is 5.1, so that makes 1,960 words. Who would write 1,960 words in a tweet?! If they are going to extend the limit, at least make it a short-style blog post, like 300 words. For comparison, newspaper columns run …
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