One of the trends you’ve probably noticed around the web for a while, has been the disabling of blog comments. It seems like the new trend in social media circles. In fact, at one time, there were strong advocates of having comments on their blogs and have now since taken them off. The main reasons for this seems to be along these lines of:
Rights & Wrongs of Facebook Ads
For a couple of years I was working as both a teacher and social media manager for my school. Our main form of outreach was Facebook and it was highly effective. Most of our new students came via Facebook, we used it to distribute useful material and keep students in the know of our latest developments.
However, during my time there we noticed an almost over night change. When we started out, we just needed to make good quality content that attracted people to share it and with little effort we’d reach between 300-1000 people (out of our 1400 contacts), but then overnight we saw a shift where we’d be lucky if 100 people saw the post we had shared.
The content was the same quality, it appealed to our students, but Facebook had changed the system to encourage more people to pay for their new promoted posts. We adapted and worked out how to use Facebook’s likes and promoted posts fairly effectively, but after some recent discussions regarding “buying followers,” I realised there is a lot of confusion surrounding Facebook ads, paid promotion, and its effectiveness.
Today I’m going to help clarify that confusion and explain what is effective as well as the rights and wrongs of Facebook ads.
How to Better Proofread Your Own Writing
How would you like to make fewer spelling and grammar mistakes and avoid being called out by the grammar police?
Have you ever written that you consider to be a reasonably good blog post or article only to get your first piece of feedback by a well meaning person reminding you politely that actually you made several mistakes. Trust me I’ve been there. It is especially common when you write on a controversial topic or the more popular you are.
If people want to criticize your argument (and can’t) or what to try to bring you down, spelling and grammar are easy points. I’m not saying they aren’t important, but dismissing someone entirely because of a missed keystroke or using “there” when it clearly should be “their” is not fair. If someone’s argument is good or bad, it should be judged on its merits alone, not on their style guide. Of course, if it is impossible or difficult to understand the point being made, that is a different matter altogether.
How to Create a Daily Todo List within Wunderlist
Although Wunderlist is a very simple task management system, it has a few core tools that can really help you get more out of it. One of the core aspects is the ability to “star” a task and so set it as a priority. By default, this will bring it to the top of its project list and add it to a special starred list. So not only does it stand out within the list which it is on (helping you to notice the important next action), but you can also create a list of tasks which you must get done today.
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How to Make Your Website (and Prints) Dyslexic Friendly
How many people do you think are dyslexic in your church? Obviously, these figures aren’t always reflected in every church (due to demographics, etc…), but roughly 1 in every 10 people have some form of dyslexia. This means that in a church of 300 people, probably 30 of them are dyslexic. That’s a sizeable amount of any congregation or church website readership and yet it is often neglected and not thought about.
My siblings and I are dyslexic (to different degrees) and my youngest brother found certain aspects of church particularly difficult due to his learning difficulties. So today I want to help you enable your church or ministry to better communicate to your dyslexic members of the congregation. (To be clear, ChurchMag could improve in some aspects here, we aren’t doing everything right.)
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6 Game Changing iOS Apps
It’s incredible to think that the original iPhone came without an App store. All those games, tools and crazy features that have helped make the iPhone such a revolutionary product weren’t there at the start. However, now the App store is huge and contains a plethora of apps, some great, some fun, some terrible and some are just plain rip offs.
All this is to say that not all iOS apps are equal and some are much more revolutionary than others. Today I want to look at a few revolutionary iOS apps, ones that will completely transform how you use your device. [All these apps or features are specifically focused on iOS. Either they are exclusives to iOS or have some extra functionality that you can’t get on Android or Windows phone. You might also want to ready about 9 Game Changing Android Apps.]