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Did you know you can use Google Analytics to supercharge Social Media?
If your business is participating in social media, dig into Google Analytics? to uncover actionable insights that will immediately improve your social efforts. An article by Chad Wiebesick identified three ways Google Analytics can supercharge your social media initiatives.
Read the full story at PWB Marketing Communications
Blogging is not only about putting together 400-2,000 words of text and publishing them on your WordPress site. As a blogger, you can choose from a much bigger variety of possible blog post types (and content in general).
One of the most effective ways of fighting writer’s block is having a big resource file, containing lots of ideas and frameworks for new posts. Besides, writing standard, old-school blog posts can get boring very quickly. That’s why every blogger needs some variety in terms of content if they want to be doing this for a longer period of time.
This list is divided into a couple of sections depending on the purpose and characteristics of each content type. Feel free to treat it as a resource file you don’t have to go through the whole list at once.
See the full list here.
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How to create a key combination to eject your optical drive They say CD and DVD drives are going the way of the dinosaur soon, but in the meantime, many of us still use them – for installing software, for backing up data, for transferring data from one computer to another, for watching movies or playing music. Sure, you can eject the disc by pushing the hardware button or going through the menu, but if you’re a keyboard wizard who hates to remove your hands from the home keys, wouldn’t it be handy to have a key combo to do it? Here’s how to do that:
Here’s where you can download the free NirCmd tool, which you’ll note does more than just eject discs: |
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I receive a weekly market update from a previous work colleague that I would like to share with you. He provides a very nice summary of the week’s market activity that is concise, while providing a great overview of market conditions and trends. Please be sure to read the disclaimer at the bottom of the summary. You can also subscribe to this weekly newsletter if you find it useful.
In another volatile week, the S&P 500 dropped just under 4.75% from last week’s close to finish the week at 1,123. The Dow lost about 4% on the week to end at 10,817.
July producer and consumer price (PPI and CPI) levels rose slightly more than expected, 0.2% and 0.5%. Housing starts, building permits and existing home sales were down from June and a little worse than expectations. Initial unemployment claims were 408k, roughly within range of the levels we’ve seen over the past several weeks.
The Empire Manufacturing report dropped to -7.70 from last month’s 3.76, disappointing expectations that it would improve. The Philadelphia Fed reported an unexpected -30.7, well below expectations and last month’s 3.2.
Most of the week’s losses came on Thursday after sharp drops in European stock markets which, combined with weak economic data, sent the S&P 500 down about 4.5%. A meeting Tuesday between Germany and France produced no real solutions for the EU debt crisis. With many countries banning such sales, short selling concentrated in the country permitting it, Germany, on Thursday. That action sent German markets sharply lower on the day leaving many major European stock indexes at or near two year lows.
From a technical perspective, the rebound off of last week’s low took the S&P 500 to a daily close of 1,204 on Monday, roughly matching the Fibonacci retracement level of 38.2%. The brief relief rally eased last week’s oversold conditions, setting the stage for Thursday’s sell off. Friday’s close was just above support established last week at 1,120 and may be a promising sign if the level holds. Unfortunately, the daily technical indicators are pointing down with room to move lower suggesting that the bears are not done yet. If the sell off continues, the next level of support looks like it will be around 1,080, below that 1,050. As with last week’s outlook, the market remains susceptible to the headlines and its own fears.
Many investors are concerned that we’re in for a repeat of the 2008 market, with many ready to jump ship. One clear lesson from years of watching this is that moving with the crowd is usually not a good idea. Having a clear, disciplined approach is. If you’d like a sounding board to discuss your personal situation, feel free to call or email me
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Ever wonder why websites don’t look the same on different browsers?It has been proposed that a client’s expectations are somewhat unrealistic when it comes to their websites looking the same across all browsers and systems. This is not only something that the client is more than likely not going to be too happy to hear, but as it turns out, this is also a topic that some of us in the design and development communities are uncomfortable broaching with our clients.
Often times, development teams spend countless hours working to satisfy the clients request for this commonality. Attempting to explain to clients and have them understand the numerous reason why is most times not warranted. So, this article, from Noupe, does a nice job of addressing this issue. It focuses on two major questions:
Browser technology is a moving target in an ever-changing landscape. Hopefully, with the right education, our clients will begin to understand all of the challenges.
Read the full article here.
Many people have no idea what it takes to build a website. But there’s a great deal of work behind a website, which this handy infographic breaks down for us.
Keys to Inspire People
Conventional wisdom tells us that we cannot change people. Certainly, we cannot make someone change who is unwilling to change. The results of our attempts to direct different actions, behaviors and thoughts will not be immediate, guaranteed or precisely as we envisioned. But you and I can be agents of transformation for our colleagues, employees, business partners, mentees and customers.
Here are some thoughts on ways to inspire – read here.
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There are a number of tools – freely available on the Web – that purport to tell us our overall social media influence or at least a slice of it (a la Twitter). While none is perfect or complete yet, using a combination of them can prove useful to helping you get an understanding of your influence across the social media landscape. Tools such as:
Here is a list of some tools that measure influence in the social web – Social Media Today.
