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Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Best Practices « Smashing Magazine

Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Best Practices « Smashing Magazine
Advertisement Smashing Magazine has been on Twitter for about a year now (@smashingmag1), and it turned out to be a great medium to communicate with our audience, build connections, discuss design-related topics and give away some nice prizes. However, even a year later, we still don’t have a Twitter background page and now is a good time to change that. So because we decided to create our own Twitter page, we wanted to first find out how other designers do it and what tips and techniques they use to create a truly outstanding, beautiful Twitter page. Your profile page is the only place on Twitter where you get opportunity to showcase your visual brand and possibly communicate additional information that can last longer than a tweet. Primary focus of this article is to explore various techniques to create unique, memorable and effective Twitter profile pages. Twitter Profile Page Other things that you should keep in mind: Tips & Techniques Merge Background With Timeline / Sidebar @benek20

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One gmail address signup and manage many Twitter accounts We completely understand web services require one unique email address for each account you create in order to halt rubbish application, which can easily be done by plenty of spam-making softwares, however, I often got tired of managing lots of emails from some web services until I made good use of Gmail or Googlemail(in some countries). As many know Gmail address has some powerful features, such as, you put a dot or many dots into any of the letters within Gmail ID the email still arrives to the same mailbox. So for instance if your email address is : abcdef@gmail.com, then “a.bcdef”, “ab.cdef”, “abc.def”, “abcd.ef” … … “a.b.c.d.e.f” all these emails belong to you and they are nicknames, none can apply these Gmail accounts. More poweful, you can add “+” to identify what kind of serive you once apply and signup.

62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business Most of you know that Twitter can be used for much more than just announcing what you ate for breakfast. Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land gigs, market your business, grow your network and gain free publicity — all in 140 characters or less. It’s true that Twitter is what you make of it. Some people publicize their daily activities, some make it about link love, some share quotes all day long. Smart people using Twitter for business mix it up. Share Expertise to Build Credibility Grow Your Network Ask about other locales so you can make the most of a trip, or meet up with Twitter friends.Connect with friends from other social networks. Marketing Do the Right (and Fun) Thing Finally, Some Tips for Absolute Beginners

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009 | Web Design Ledger There are a few things that a designer can not have enough of in his or her design arsenal, and one of them is textures. So to continue our “Best of 2009″ series, we’ve selected the best free textures from this past year. Since there were so many textures released in 2009 by so many generous people, it is difficult to choose the best. However, we feel the ones here stand out in quality and usefulness, and will be valuable additions to your texture library. You can also check out the rest of the “Best of 2009″ series at the bottom of this article. Grungy Textures Package – Metal – 9 11 Old and Grungy Film Textures Nebulae Grunge Grungy Textures Ultimate Grunge Pack Vintage Textures Floral Vintage III Vintage Damask Vintage V Vintage IV Wood Textures Wood Panels Textures Grungy Dirty Wood Woodwork Paint Textures Painted textures vol. 12 High-Res Watercolor Textures Textures 05 Paint Splatters Paper Textures Japanese Paper Paper Pack 6 Old sheets of paper About the Author Related Posts 10 shares Read More 42 shares

In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World Turn Social Intelligence Into Smart Crisis Prevention Find out how to prevent a social media crisis and protect your brand's reputation with your most powerful PR tool: social intelligence. How to Get Social Media Influencers Talking About Your Brand 6 tips to help you identify and build strong relationships with social influencers. How to Track Social Media Buzz Are you looking for buzz in all the wrong places? 8 Ways to Build Your Brand with Social Media Quick tips for using social media to strengthen your company's brand. 6 Best Practices For Influencer Marketing Getting the right people excited and talking about an organization's products or services has always been one of the best ways to improve brand recognition, expand customer base, and ultimately drive more sales. 5 Tips For Setting Measurable Social Media Goals Too many companies dismiss their social efforts as a failure, simply because they don't know what success looks like.

FBGAT – Facebook Google Analytics tracker FBGAT is a free and opensource tool created by Webdigi to work around Facebook’s Javascript restriction on Facebook fan pages which prevents Google Analytics from working correctly. There are two key parts to this tool. 1) The code generator: This helps users generate a code for each individual areas that has to be tracked on Google Analytics 2) The tracker: This instructs Google Analytics on each page load to log visits, IP address, browser, country, etc. Here are general instructions on how to setup Google Analytics on your Facebook pages. The hosted versionThe hosted version of FBGAT is free to use (no plans to charge for usage). To download and setup on your own serverYou will need an externally accessible webserver running PHP to install FBGAT and run it by yourself. FBGAT Download

77 Exclusive Free Texture Pack Collection 77 Exclusive Free Texture Pack Collection August 16th, 2009Category: Freebies bf3c83d4c43406b69035b9d137369cf0 Del.icio.us Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Using texture is a one of the popular craze of recent times. So, where you will get these textures? In my today’s post, I am going to show some exclusive and exceptional texture packs for our visitors. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 25 Wall Textures Pack 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 7 Grungy Wallpaper Photoshop Patterns & Texture 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 4 Free Material Textures 70. 4 Free Miscellaneous Textures 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. Author: Faisal Raj I am an ultimate web related working person. Related Posts Share this article: Searph August 16th, 2009 Nice collection Faisal.

11 Useful Free APIs for Developing Twitter Apps This is the main API you’ll use for interacting with twitter accounts: getting friend and follower details, following and unfollowing, and most importantly, posting status updates. The API is very easy to use (thanks to REST: just make GET or POST requests to various URLs), and thankfully no registration is required; just pass your twitter account details in using HTTP Basic Authentication for the actions that need it. Although the service is rate-limited to 100 requests per hour, many of the most important actions (such as posting a status update, or following a user) are not included in the rate limits. Although it’s also run by Twitter, it currently feels like quite a separate service, probably because it has been largely untouched since Twitter bought the Summize search application that it runs from. The Search API will only serve you up to about 1,500 results from recent history.

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