Today I’m giving a presentation to the Professional Women in Real Estate group in St Paul Minnesota. I’m excited to talk with the group. I suspect that everyone is coming at it with very different levels of experience and expertise. Here is the presentation I’m going to use. I think I’ll also mention the Minnesota … Continue reading
Category Archives: Web 2.0
Online Forum Policies
Today’s Byte is pretty specific but I hope a few folks will it useful. For a more general tip…After my last Byte John in Hibbing had a good suggestion for a fax to email tool: Faxaway: http://www.faxaway.com/ A couple of people lately have asked me about policies for online forums. You want the flexibility to … Continue reading
Adding Twitter Feed to Blog sidebar
Sorry I’ve been terrible about the Byte of the Week lately. I’m back in Ireland – but only for 6 weeks. You can see what we’re doing here: http://10qs.wordpress.com/ Sticking with the Twitter theme I started a while ago I wanted to end by talking about how you can add your Twitter feed to your … Continue reading
Twitter shortcuts
Last week I talked about why you might want to Twitter. So I’m sure you’ve all jumped in and have been Tweeting ever since. Here are a few commands that will #topic – I talked about this last week; it allows you to tag or add a subject to your message such as #worldseries for … Continue reading
Why Twitter?
Good uses of Twitter http://twitter.com/ Last week I spoke to a group about Twitter. The big question was – why would I ever want to use it. Some folks used it with friends but couldn’t see a business use. So I wanted to outline some good uses. First some Twitter basics: Twitter is like micro-blogging. … Continue reading
Blogging & Twitter
Yesterday I gave a presentation in Duluth. It was a fun group of nonprofits who were interested in why someone might want to blog or Twitter. (Learn more about the group here: http://twitter.com/techtues I thought I’d share the presentation with Byte Readers: Also there was a follow up question: How can I find people … Continue reading
Utterli – part podcast, part Twitter
I’m not a big user (yet), but I wanted to send a note out about Utterli. I think it’s part podcast, part Twitter. It’s free and easy tool and maybe a better way to go for folks who would rather talk than write. The tool is Utterli http://www.utterli.com Just sign up for a free account. … Continue reading
What’s a Flash Mob?
So I was just invited to my first Flash Mob. Unfortunately it’s Saturday night in Dublin. A flash mob is a group of people meeting in a public place to do something unusual. For example, I was invited to meet outside a pub and draw a circle on my hand. Usually it starts with a … Continue reading
Filtering Comments on WordPress
Sorry today’s Byte is pretty specific for bloggers who wants to filter out comments they receive in WordPress. (For those who don’t have a WordPress blog (http://wordpress.com/), here’s a fun site that lets you Photoshop yourself to this week’s inauguration: http://www.myinauguralphoto.com/.) Recently a few folks have told me that they are getting spam from their … Continue reading
7 Online Marketing Tips
Today I gave a presentation to the Minneapolis Breakfast Club (http://www.minneapolisbreakfastclub.com/); I really enjoy belonging to this networking group. For many people work has slowed down a bit – so I wanted to introduce a number of online marketing tools that were pretty cheap, didn’t require a ton of technical expertise and helped you connect … Continue reading
