social media

How to Pre-Populate Twitter Status Updates the NEW Way via Links & Web Intents

May 18, 2011
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About a year and a half ago, I posted a “How To” article to teach people on how to tweet out messages from your website via a URL or web link. Unfortunately, that method no longer works as of a few days ago. Twitter has updated the process for doing this. However, I now have [...]

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How to Write & Blog Efficiently with Free Tools like Evernote, DropBox, Picasa & Live Writer

May 13, 2011
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A while ago, I wrote a blog post about how I do blogging. That was over a year ago. Times have changed, tools have evolved and processes have gotten better, at least for me. I still believe that how your blog or write is extremely personal in nature and what may work for me, might [...]

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LocalMind Makes Social Check-ins Engaging, Interactive and Helpful

May 9, 2011
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We all know about social check-in services like Gowalla, FourSquare and even FaceBook Places. These services allow you to announce that you are at a particular venue, event, company or location, quickly and easily all via your mobile device. With some, the more places you go, the more credibility and achievements you get (e.g., badges). [...]

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IMPORTANT: Enable SSL on your Social Media Accounts NOW! – Twitter and Facebook

March 16, 2011

As hacking into people’s accounts has become a “clear and present danger“, it’s important to note TWO quick and easy configuration settings that you can now enable within both Facebook and now Twitter that can make your Social Media account just a bit more secure. While it won’t protect you from other types of hack [...]

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Isotoner Donating smarTouch Gloves to Charity via Twitter #giftoftouch

December 2, 2010

I wrote a review of the Isotoner smarTouch Gloves last month…definitely a great product. Today I learned about a pretty cool charity program that Isotoner is doing via Twitter that I thought, in the spirit of holiday giving, should be shared. I also just learned that the donation window has been extended through the holidays. [...]

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Ok, I Bought A New Car, Now What? But First, A Little More About The Buying Process

October 20, 2010

A few weeks ago our 2001 Honda Odyssey died. The transmission on our 10 year old family shuttle that had “only” 130,000 miles conked out, for the second time. It had served us really well until the last year or so, and then it had developed an expensive habit of relentlessly having to visit the [...]

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Buying A New Car? Here’s My Shopping Strategy with my own Dealer Incentive!

September 29, 2010

This past weekend, the transmission of my 2001 Honda Odyssey died. The car has over 130,000 miles on it and has done a fairly good job raising our family. It sort of reminds me of the latest “Modern Family” episode (see “The Old Wagon“) where they just can’t seem to part with the old family [...]

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What Does “Silent But Deadly” Refer to in the Latest “Cast of Dads” Podcast #31?

September 22, 2010

We are still trying to get back into the regular scheduling of our “Cast of Dads” podcast. It’s definitely hard to schedule 5 busy dads who are juggling family and work and play times (what’s that?). But we did have our weekly virtual convention over the phone and managed to bang out another great episode [...]

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