23 Apr 2012 No Comments
Want to use your site’s url as your openID? Nothing easier than: 1. Get an openid from a site such as https://www.myopenid.com/ 2. Get the server url for that openID site, such as http://www.myopenid.com/server 3. Copy this HTML before the </head> tag of your site. (In a self hosted wordpress you will find it in Appearance ->Editor [...]
26 Mar 2012 No Comments
If you have a blog and are fed up with lifeless stock photos, if your website needs a little photo boost or if you’re starting to send a weekly newsletter and you need good (free to use) images, this post is for you: Photos that are older than 120 years old are generally ok to use. Google [...]
08 Mar 2012 No Comments
When people ask me what klout is, I often tell them it’s like a page rank for Twitter. The more people talk to you, the higher your klout is. The more influential people who talk to you are, the higher your klout is. The more people retweet (link to you), the higher your klout will [...]
05 Mar 2012 No Comments
Disclaimer, disclosure, when to use what? Use “disclosure” when you suspect there might be a conflict of interests somewhere in your writing. If you know your sources personally, have a business together etc. Full disclosure (media), disclosing the interests of the writer which may bear on the subject being written about, for example, if the writer [...]
02 Mar 2012 No Comments
If you’re a copywriter you might have heard of Hey Whipple, Squeeze This. The author of this mythical book, Luke Sullivan, has a blog. Sullivan worked in advertising as a copywriter for 33 years and in ’98 he wrote the above mentioned, and very recommended copywriting book. What I like about his blog now is [...]
01 Mar 2012 No Comments
As the time management and productivity psycho enthusiast that I am, I find this simple productivity tip from Marc and Angel hack Live very true: Work when your mind is fresh, and put first things first. – Highly productive people recognize that not all hours are created equal, and they strategically account for this when planning [...]
29 Feb 2012 No Comments
I was reading this article about the people who make Twitter this morning. The author, Jacob Weisberg goes straight into the bear’s lair, attends Twitter meetings, gets to see how they work and how they think. The article’s name is (almost deceivingly) “The Women of Twitter“, yet he talks very little about the women and more about [...]
09 Feb 2012 No Comments
Here’s one thing that will take 1 minute of your time and can substantially increase the traffic of your blog: letting your readers know there are more posts on your blog, just as good as the one they are reading and on the same subject. Install a “related posts” plugin, like Yet Another Related Posts [...]
07 Feb 2012 No Comments
If you’re interested in social media management, blogging and copywriting like The Social Media Snacker on Facebook. It will be a great way to get to know each other and discuss social media related topics. Or you can also tweet with me at @mediasnacker
03 Feb 2012 No Comments
Vi.sualize.us allows you to bookmark images but, unlike Pinterest, images can be bookmarked without a description. Images are organized by tags, people you add as contacts appear in your watch-list. The site was developed in 2007 by Spanish developer Victor Espigares, who loves photography. The site has a PR 5. The Good You can sign up with Twitter, Facebook [...]
