Author’s quick guide to Social Media Marketing, iPhone data plans explained, BP PR display ads, the useful 33% of Twitter users, jQuery for better columns

Posted on June 14, 2010 by admin

These are my links for May 31st through June 14th:

jQuery Masonry · David DeSandro – Intriguing way to tesselate content areas. Better than CSS floats, David Desandro’s method minimizes empty areas caused by content area heights in the same row.
One-Third of Twitter Users Talk Brands – eMarketer – There are a finite number of influencers in the social space who will _ever_ consider talking brand or products. As this plateau continues, the competition for a share of voice with these influencers will become more and more fierce. Better spend some time on creative social presence, and stop just pushing out coupons.
BP buys oil spill PPC ads: Nice idea, poor execution | Econsultancy – Interesting use of PPC display ads as PR damage control. We’ve seen this done with AdWords, but display ads area an even louder (faster?) way to respond to negative press.
Candid answers from AT&T on the new iPhone data plans – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) – Everything you really need to know about the AT&T plans.
An Author’s Plan for Social Media Efforts « [chrisbrogan.com] – Just change the word “book” to product or brand, and this post is a great how to guide for social influence marketing.

Usability testing made easy, CSS code generators, site speed & SEO, more on the fold myth

Posted on April 14, 2010 by admin

7 Useful CSS3 Code Generators | Coding | PelFusion.com – Here’s few visual tools to help generate CSS rounded corners, RGBA, text shadows, @font-face, multiple columns, gradients, and borders.
It’s official: Google incorporates website speed into your ranking | Blog | Econsultancy -
25 Subtle and Light Grunge Textures – Lost and Taken -
Web Design News 30/03/10 « Boagworld – An killer group of usability & blog tips from @boagworld last week. The dirty quickly:If your site is designed well (with a visual hierarchy, scannable content, and good typographic relationships, etc) there really is no fold. Yes, important content will always compete for the top of the page, but great designs draw the visitor naturally deeper down the page.Usability testing needn’t be a daunting task. Do it early, do it often. Grab a few people and freely available web tools like fivesecondtest and checkmycolors Finally, Mark Hayward lays down some tips for anyone who needs to get started with blogging, but has “I’m not a writer” syndrome.

Posted on April 12, 2010 by admin

Personal Tech: Apple iPad FAQ’s – @pogue answers all of the important questions I had about iPad. Video out, how’s the typing experience (really), USB, they 12hr battery life claim is not a myth.
Facebook’s New Solution For Unofficial Pages: Community Pages – Facebook makes a distinction between brand pages and pages meant to build community around a topic. Think it will take off?
BRITE: Influence on Twitter can’t be purchased with Kim Kardashian | Econsultancy – Can you buy influence on Twitter? Maybe this should say “meaningful influence”?
iPhone and iPad Stock Files – collis – GraphicRiver – iPad UI graphic elements kits from Envato for your application design and wireframing needs.
Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 – Custom post types is going to be a game changer for my dev team. We currently use a few plugins to massage WordPress into a CMS, namely Flutter and Secondary HTML Content. Custom post types might eliminate the need for those plugins. RT @danielbachhuber.
Mirror files across systems with rsync – Backup utilities – Lifehacker – I know this is the right way to backup. Real geeks use rsync. I haven’t had the chance to poke this bear yet, but Gina’s article is where I’ll start.