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I stumbled across this sweet cityscape image the other day and was kind of blown away!
by James Brooks
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I stumbled across this sweet cityscape image the other day and was kind of blown away!
by Eric Dye
Does Google think of everything?
Well, no, I don’t believe they think of everything, they just make a point to act on their ideas! Something we can all learn from, I believe.
As the story goes, Google wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt. They wanted to say:
$ google picasa create –title “My album” ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg
They didn’t have a tool that did such a thing, so what did they do?
by Eric Dye
So, you just landed your first iPad, eh?
Nice.
You are now cooler than you were before you had an iPad. If you take your new glossy goodness with you and use it at Starbucks while sipping down a cup of delicious, you officially become a part of an elite group of cool people.
Welcome.
Now, what are you going to do with this $500 tech toy?
by Eric Dye
In the last week Google have added a few new features to their URL shortening service, Goo.gl.
The features weren’t exactly groundbreaking, but were certainly welcome improvements of the service.
The changes were as follows:
by Jeremy Smith
Yesterday, we posted our Twitter strategy and coincidentally, Collide Magazine posted a similar article. I wanted to offer four questions to answer before you go forward with developing your own strategy so as to streamline the process. Giving well thought out answers can make the process painless and achievable. Tomorrow, we will look at how we plan to handle networking.
Who do you post tweets for? This can be as simple as “for myself” or as complex as what we said: “Everyone who wants to impact the Church as well as those who love technology and social media …” Remember, the broader you get, the more you will have to keep track of, write for, and network with. In a business model, hopefully this is already written done somewhere. If not, look at your mission or vision statement and hopefully it will become clear. For those that are just posting for fun or as freelance workers, what topics do you find yourself wanting to post?
What is the endgame of your tweets? Do you want your followers to go somewhere to buy something? Are you intended to have them see your blog? Or maybe you simply want us as followers to see how brilliant you are, awesome! For churches, it might be reminders of events. For us, we have stated that “the first line of interest is our ‘product’ including our blogging and projects we are working on.” Whatever it is you are wanting to do, remember that this is your top priority. Retweets and #FridayFollows are great, but these are not the top priority in the vision of this Twitter account. Always keep perspective of that.
When is it best to tweet consistently? For some, once a day is all that they care to post. Others have an automated WordPress plugin like Twitter Tools or scheduling web app like HootSuite to plan things out for you. One advice for multiple daily tweets, space them out through the day. It is good marketing to not only let followers know you exist but remind them throughout the day. For us, we have scheduled tweets from 8AM EST to 5PM PST as well as semi-hourly networking tweets.
Is there value to what you have to say? It is one thing for us to have a strategy of using Twitter and whole other problem of not having anything valuable today. The last thing I care about is that the Chinese food you had for lunch was too much for you. In fact, I might stop following you solely for that reason. We are not asking you to reinvent the wheel, a Scripture verse that caught your eye or a retweet about the latest Google or Apple press release is perfect, but will your audience like it too? At the same, some of it should be coming from you. It does not have to mind-blowing, but should represent you or your organization.
by James Brooks
Sadly, it looks like we are too late to stop this disaster.
I am a huge fan of Moleskine. I have been for a number of years. They are my notebook of choice along with the offerings from Muji.
The Moleskine experience is all based around the physical experience of having a Moleskine notebook in your hand. The feel, the quality of the paper, the size and way it fits perfectly in your hand. It’s supposed to be a high quality product, it’s supposed to be keeping pen and paper alive.
Why Moleskine, why oh why, did you have to release an iOS app?!