Contemplating leaving Twitter? If you're wanting to find a way to try Mastodon, here is an instance for you to try. If you're contemplating starting a Mastodon instance, we can help. Here's ours: https://yankee.social
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Twitter Refugees Flock To Mastodon
If you're following Elon Musk's involvement at Twitter.com, you'll be familiar with the process and how messy it's become. Quite a few users there are trying other social networks, the most mentioned service is Mastodon.Social. Mastodon is a global network of privately operated open-source servers. Each presents a different interest and server name. But together…
Spamming From Your Email Inbox – Just Don’t.
Unsolicited Commercial Email "UCE", or Unsolicited Bulk Email "UBE" What are the acceptable uses of personal contacts? Are there conventions or gulp, laws that exist to protect our inboxes? As wise, technologically aware professionals we need to understand our tools. Email is an important tool we use to operate our businesses. From time to time, during…
A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps
Source: A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps
Language Support: Evolution of Online Tools
https://www.grammarly.com I started with the Google Chrome plugin and have added it to my Mac Desktop. The system makes college-level suggestions that I sometimes miss. I'll be using the interface as a pre-processor / content refinery for client work and for my own stuff (but over which, admittedly I'm much less particular.) For instance, I'm…
Hashtags: Protect your Intellectual Property?
Are hashtags *sometimes* intellectual property? http://www.business.com/legal/are-hashtags-intellectual-property/ For instance our registered trademark "How hard can IT be?" is used everyday online at twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23howhardcanitbe&src=typd There are several questions, but mainly: Do we need to assert some sort of control? According to the article cited above, probably not -- because our Registered Trademark doesn't "Cite a specific…
Why Hashtags? Versus Handles.
Answering this question deserves a post of it's own. In a recent example we noticed that Tripcheck.com uses Twitter Handles for each Oregon Highway. Cool, right? You can follow updates there. Citing this example: @TripCheckOR42A If you have a Twitter Account, you can get alerts from that Handle. But Hashtags are ubiquitous across social media channels.…
Hashtag alerts, an example
One wonders about being able to follow hashtags that are trending on Twitter, for instance. We're trying Tagboard.com https://tagboard.com/ORHwy42/259261 Henceforth, our posts will be accompanied by #WebPresenceConsulting
Next AoWP Workshop
Th next meeting in the series of "Anatomy of a Web Presence Workshops" (AoWP) will be held Wednesday, August 27th 2-4PM at the Bandon Public Library.
Viral Stats Counter-intuitive
An article published in the Huffington Post is worth viewing. We found some of the research results contrary to assumptions. And so we're re-evaluating ... Having used the BuzzSumo tool in client analysis, we're grateful to view the results and it affects how we coach. The author of the article (link above) Noah Kagan is Founder…
Designed Online Success 