Xk5kt.th8.us: Wendy knew the prospect wasn’t a good fit for her, but she was still upset when the company decided not to hire her. “I don’t have any other leads in the pipeline, and I was really hoping this one would come through.” It’s a big problem almost all of us have faced: not enough leads or prospects in the pipeline or sales funnel. That leads to low revenues, sometimes none at all, resulting in feelings of dejection, doubt and fear. That’s not a very effective place to be when you’re trying to attract clients. What’s better is to have several prospects in the pipeline, all in various stages of getting to know you. So what causes this problem? Those who are marketing at all are either not doing so regularly or not focusing enough on generating new leads. What to Do instead: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Photo by Oleksandr Got a tip about attracting clients to share? View Twitter Through Other People’s Eyes With TwtRoulette. Intrigued by the experience of viewing a friend’s Twitter timeline, angel investor Shervin Pishevar collaborated with 15 year-old iTunes Instant creator Stephen Ou to create Twtroulette.com after a week of work.
With Twtroulette, users can now visit what industry notables like Mike Arrington, investor Brad Feld, and YouTube’s Hunter Walk see when they open Twitter i.e. what it’s like to follow the people they are following. People can also volunteer their own timelines by adding themselves to the directory. And, like Chatroulette, there’s a random function so one can shuffle through profiles if they’re feeling lucky. Twitter actually used to have this feature (called “With Friends”) but took it away because relatively few people accessed it. Apparently some users still wanted to have the option to sneak peeks of what other Twitter users see — Pishevar describes his motivation behind the project; OneSaas - SaaS to SaaS Integrations Made Easy.
Offline/Online Convergence, Mobile Commerce, and Life After Check-ins. For years, offline merchants have been acquiring data about you in attempts to personalize your experience through loyalty and rewards cards, credit card data, and surveys. But the problem is these interactions occur after it’s too late: at the point of sale. You’ve already checked out and are leaving the store, or have ordered dinner.
For a merchant to convince you to add an extra item to your shopping cart, or buy an appetizer with your meal, the interaction must happen sooner. Online check-ins, as a trend and use-case, have created a remarkably compelling opportunity for offline merchants to interact with consumers who are in the store before the sale happens. When you announce you’re at a store or restaurant by checking into Foursquare or Facebook Places, for example, your experience can be shaped and molded in compelling ways. This is precisely why check-ins are incredibly powerful—they give the offline merchants an opportunity to shape your behavior before you buy or consume.
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I want to look at some of the opportunities for socialised news or newspapers. Crowdsource photos Relationships with bloggers in every region Now of course, this has implications for traditional journalists. Charge for a social media experience Give me a live blogging section. Measure the Performance (Site Speed) of your Website Online. 22 Jul 2012 Learn how you can measure the speed and performance of your website online using tools like Google Page Speed and Yahoo!
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Since I was sitting here updating some of my workshop materials for my Social Media and Networking Power Workshop, I thought I’d share some sure-fire techniques for losing the followers you already have on Twitter. This is a sure-fired technique that will drive anyone who actually reads your Twitter stream away. Sure, sell me products you produce, or really use yourself, in extreme moderation. But don’t link-spam me with every affiliate offer you can find out there on Commission Junction or Clickbank. There’s nothing wrong with some of the products sold there, don’t get me wrong.
But if your Tweets consist primarily of links to products you know nothing about, I’ll unfollow you in a flash. Ugh. You know, I’m grateful for someone who posts a link to a high-quality article in a niche that interests me. Guess what? Even worse than posting links to the same site, is repeating the same Tweets repeatedly. Hey, if you want to lose followers, whatever you do, don’t converse with them. RT @QuantumGood: The Future of our World. Arnolfini | Fun With Software. Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets.
Todd's family just increased by one a few weeks ago. I found it to be quite a surprising tweet to read that morning, to say the least. I imagine the family may have some stronger feelings about that tweet than I do, too. To them, it's something that years from now will still signify such an important moment of their lives. Unfortunately, Twitter's not making it easy to retain that nostalgia. Now and then Twitter is about now now now. Twitter's a snapshot into your life. Twitter retains As it stands, Twitter doesn't make it easy to relive these experiences. You're API-limited: Clients may access a theoretical maximum of 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for the user_timeline REST API methods.
You're also web-limited. What's worse is that this affects your Direct Messages, too. Tweet mining So Twitter's restricting access to our tweets. What were my first tweets? Meaning There's so many possibilities that are exciting to think about. Social Bookmarking Replaces Digg With Foursquare, News With Location. The excitement of Digg recently reinventing itself to resurrect social bookmarking as a viable news service dissipated as fast as it was introduced. Folks have found Twitter and Facebook more reliable resources for gathering and saving real-time news. What's currently on users' radar these days is earmarking places of interest and venues both online and in the real-world - and Foursquare 2.0 appears to be the first to capitalize on this paradigm shift. Don't be surprised if within the next few weeks you start finding "Add to My Foursquare" buttons as prevalent throughout the Web as Digg was two years back. The new feature is an ingenious means for the location-based social network to move beyond it's "now" overplayed game-like check-in feature.
Simply put - vendors want traffic and consumers want deals! Their service, Foursquare is stepping up their game to stay ahead of the pack and ward off formidable interlopers like Facebook Places. See this example for MoMa in Manhattan. The Angel Hotel :: Abergavenny, UK. Leaves changing colour, blue sky, mountains - love this country :) Football Factory. News - Grad Student Claims First Human-Powered Ornithopter Flight. September 23, 2010 — Todd Reichert, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, announced Wednesday that he had completed the first continuous flight of a human-powered ornithopter, the mythical aircraft with birdlike flapping wings first envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci in 1485, The Toronto Star reported.
Reichert said his flight, launched by a towline attached to an automobile, sustaining both altitude and airspeed for 19.3 seconds over 145 meters (475 feet) at a top speed of 25 kph (approximately 16 mph). It occurred on August 2, 2010, in Tottenham, Ontario, and a representative from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), keeper of world aeronautical records, was also present to witness the flight. FAI will determine by sometime in October if it did in fact set a record. The aircraft, named “Snowbird,” weighs just under 43 kilograms (94 lbs) with a 32-meter (105-ft) wingspan. It’s made of carbon fiber tubes, foam, and balsawood. Home | St Paul’s School. A responsive mind. Ethan is a brilliant person. Responsive web design is a brilliant technique. These two facts are related. As Ethan recently clarified: A responsive design is composed of three distinct parts: A flexible grid.
Flexible images. Or more specifically, images that work in a flexible context (whether fluid themselves, or perhaps controlled via overflow). Media queries. There has been a lot of discussion on that third part—including a superb presentation by Bryan Rieger—but there has been less emphasis on those first two parts. I recently had to adapt an existing layout for varying screen widths. It was a breeze. The site now goes from a three-column layout (on browsers wider than 800 pixels) to a two-column layout (on browsers between 800 and 640 pixels) to a single column layout (on browsers less than 640 pixels). Notice that I don’t refer to this as mobile optimisation. That said, in many situations the content you want to serve up will be the same regardless of context. In the case of St. Twitter to Launch Free Real-time Analytics This Year: Tech News « Twitter plans to roll out a free real-time analytics dashboard in the fourth quarter, said Ross Hoffman of the company’s business development team at a conference yesterday.
Hoffman said Twitter would start a phased rollout of the dashboard to show users information about how their tweets are spreading and who is influential in their network. WebTrends caught the remark in a session at the Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit and cornered Hoffman for further deets. If true, this has two larger implications: Twitter will not be charging for analytics, something execs have alluded to as a potential business model in the past.The impact may not only be the loss of a would-be Twitter business model, but also one for the startups currently offering analytics today.
Radian6 dashboard Hoffman reportedly said Twitter would incorporate the technology it’s using to measure tweet “Resonance” for search results and other features. Since December, Twitter has matured significantly. (Via ReadWriteWeb) Facebook Unveils Recommended Subscriptions. What do you get when you combine the biggest collection of personal taste data in history with the world’s easiest method of subscribing to syndicated content? In theory, one of the most potent recommendation engines around.
Facebook quietly made available to all its 500 million plus users a new feature today called the Page Browser and though everything about it is quite understated – it could prove to be a very big deal. Users must navigate directly to the Page Browser, there doesn’t appear to be any link from the main interface. The page shows big icons for a list of pages Facebook thinks you might like; click on one and you’ll “Like” it. Of course Facebook has succeeded by making very potent interactions seem simple from the outside – and this new feature is more of the same. Facebook could probably offer recommendations that were almost perfectly within your taste profile, but these recommendations aren’t and I’m guessing that’s intentional.
Recommendation vs. R's twstreamer at master - GitHub. Why You Should Blog Before you Twitter. New Service Aims to Drastically Change the Way Virtual Teams Communicate. Sococo Sococo makes Team Space, a new mode of online communication that uses smart spaces to make online communication natural and intuitive. The virtual office is as old as the Internet itself. From lightweight options, including chat rooms Yammer and Skype to more robust solutions in the vein of Basecamp , Colaab and the almost defunct Google Wave, there are a host of online tools that exist simply to make business-related person-to-person and person-to-team communication easier. Socoo enters the crowded space with its interpretation on online communication: Team Space. Team Space is an always-on group communication tool for remote teams, where team members are organized at desks in a virtual office building and can interact with each other through voice, chat and multi-screen sharing.
The Team Space can include private offices, common areas, conference rooms and personal spaces. Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark. The SEO’s Handbook – 53 Resources For First Time SEOs. What's the best Twitter app for BlackBerry? UberTwitter? Twitter for BlackBerry or SocialScope? (I like all 3 with the latter being my favorite) - oneforty Answers. Ye Olde Murenger :: Newport, UK. Flickr. Why you care about Twitter too much. « Ask Spike. The kids over at Information is Beautiful have put together a great infographic that looks at Twitter in several different ways and really, it’s a great shock to the system to help us all realize that Twitter isn’t as important as a lot of social media consultants and digital shops might want you to think it is. Take a look:
The Seven Best “Why Facebook Is Down” Cracks: Tech News « Montana woman fights bear using courgette. 24 September 2010Last updated at 01:27 Black bears are prevalent throughout many forested regions of the US A woman from the US state of Montana has fought off a 200lb (91kg) black bear with a courgette from her garden. The bear attacked one of the woman's dogs on the back porch of her home late on Wednesday evening, Missoula County Sheriff's Lt Rich Maricelli said. When the woman tried to stop the attack, the bear swiped at her leg. The woman, whom police have not named, grabbed the closest object - a courgette from her garden - and threw it at the bear, causing it to flee.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote She kicked the bear with her left leg as hard as she could” End QuoteLt Rich MaricelliMissoula County Police Lt Maricelli told the Associated Press news agency that the woman, who lives about 15 miles (24km) from the town of Missoula, had not sought medical attention. Authorities were still trying to track down the bear on Thursday. Ripped jeans. Sanity check: The four stages of a typical Twitter user | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com. Groupon Still Growing Ridiculously Fast. The Continued Rise of Blogging. Superb prints (on steel) by Tim Lawrence ("Ghosts in Armour" at @RiverfrontArts)
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