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Add a Vanity URL to Your Facebook Page

Recently Facebook allowed its users to claim their own vanity URL for their personal Facebook profiles.. I claimed mine. If you don’t already know a vanity URL is a domain name of your choosing, that points to your Facebook profile. By default everyone’s Facebook profile URL is a long string of random characters, eg [...]

Facebook, Page, Social Media 14 September 2009 8:15 pm 10 Comments

How to Stop Twitter Spam

Twitter spam is a real problem. and it is getting worse. You may think you have a loyal following of people who find you interesting, or amusing, but they’re probably not all real people. Among your followers will be a wide spectrum of fully automated, or computer aided Twitter accounts. If you manually vet your [...]

Social Media, Spam, Tools, Twitter 10 September 2009 8:38 pm 4 Comments

Find Out When Someone De-Friends You on Facebook

Want to be able to know which of your ‘friends‘ has de-friended you on Facebook? “Yes” I hear you say? This guide will show you how. Facebook Friends Checker is a Greasemonkey script that regularly checks your Facebook friends to check whether anyone has removed you from their friends. When the script detects that [...]

Facebook, How To, Social Media 4 September 2009 8:44 pm 10 Comments

6 Ways to Filter Information

Knowing how to filter out the noise when searching for information on the internet can really make a difference. Filtering out information that you you don’t want, can help you find exactly what you are looking for. Often knowing what you don’t want when performing a search can sometimes be more effective than knowing [...]

Social Media 30 August 2009 8:24 pm 2 Comments

Getting Noticed on Google – An SEO Guide

Everyone wants to get their blog or website to rank as high as possible in Google’s search results. Imagine if someone typed some search criteria into Google and of all the results that came back, your site was listed in the top one hundred.. or top ten.. or even better, number one! It’s not [...]

Blog, Google, SEO 30 August 2009 3:13 pm 3 Comments

Screenr – Instant Screencasts for Twitter

How many of your friends at work, or on Facebook, or on Twitter have asked you.. how do I do this?.. how do you do that? You know the answer and the steps involved, but it’s just too hard to tell them over the phone or via email. Have you thought of creating a [...]

Social Media, Tools, Twitter 23 August 2009 12:01 pm 3 Comments

Get Satisfaction Guide to People Powered Customer Service

Every business wants satisfied customers. Customers.. that is, you and me.. tell our friends and family about experiences we’ve had at restaurants, shops, and with people we have had to deal with like doctors, dentists, trades people, etc. Get Satisfaction is all about people-powered customer service and provides customer communities for products and organisations. Get [...]

Get Satisfaction, Social Media 13 August 2009 10:20 pm 0 Comments

Remote Control your PC with Twitter

TweetMyPC is an open source application that allows you to remotely control your PC using Twitter. You can do things like, shutdown reboot lock standby hibernate take screenshots download files from the internet TweetMyPC checks for status updates in Twitter every minute and runs in the Windows system tray. Before I show you how to [...]

Social Media, Tools, Twitter 10 August 2009 9:25 pm 10 Comments

Matthew Tommasi:
Try Hootsuite. You can republish RSS feeds.. and send to your Ping.fm account

Visionary-Codes:
Great guide but this is the message I get when trying to link Twitterfeed to Pin

Achim Fischer:
Thank you very much for this post. Didn't even know that this is possible :-)

Em:
I love it that at the bottom of the article it asks if you want to "Tweet This",

Israel Garcia:
What an brilliant job! Congrats Matt, once again you've made it!

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