4/16 Latest Links

The web’s ever changing and the action never stops.  Here’s a few of our favorite recent links from around the world courtesy of our media network.  This week’s links run the gamut from finding VS funding for your social enterprise to the importance of “reputation grooming” to resources for writing website copy, marketing your business online and paying attention to your customers.  Plus a special lesson from Trent Reznor.  Check everything out, but be careful-you just might learn something! Read more

Testing out the Tweetsuite Wordpress App

 

For all you sync crazy Wordpress/Twitter junkies, Tweetsuite has the integration cure for what ails ya’.

Tweetsuite, the new Worpress plugin by Dan Zarella, lets you fully integrate Twitter into your Wordpress blog pretty seamlessly.

Think of Tweetsuite as a supersized version of Zarella’s Tweetbacks plugin. Not only does Tweetsuite display all tweets that reference a particular post, but it feeds posts directly to your Twitter account and automatically adds buttons for Tweeting, Re-Tweeting, and adding to your favorite tweets.  There are also side bar widgets that display your latest, favorite, and most popular Twitter feeds. Twitter Overload? Pretty close.

So far I’ve installed the plugin on all my sites and it’s working fine. While it would be easy to OD on this feature heavy plugin I’m using it primarly for the Twitter auto post and “Tweet This” features. Read more

Latest Links

Here’s our weekly list of the hottest, most interesting and most useful news from around the ‘net in the last week.  Everything from South By Southwest Tech news to Daily show ranting.  Check ‘em out.  You just might learn something. 

 

Growing up online-

• The Digital Natives are here.  The first generation of childredn born into a wired world face a rapidly changing world of technology and information.  But to them it’s just the same ol’ same old.  John Palfrey’s new book (Growing up Digital) explores the way these plugged in youth see things differently from the rest of us. (On the Media) Read more
  

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  4/16 Latest Links

  April 16, 2009 by admin  
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  The web’s ever changing and the action never stops.  Here’s a few of our favorite recent links from around the world courtesy of our media network.  This week’s links run the gamut from finding VS funding for your social enterprise to the importance of "reputation grooming" to resources for writing website copy, marketing your business online and paying attention to your customers.  Plus a special lesson from Trent Reznor.  Check everything out, but be careful-you just might learn something! Read more

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  Wikipedia’s fundraising coup

  April 1, 2009 by admin  
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  Wikipedia thanks you

  In a great example of how creating a genuinely useful product and building a dedicated online community can result in big payoffs in the long run.

  In what’s undoubtedly the worst financial times in recent history, open source online everything Wikipedia announced Friday that it has reached it’s goal of raising $6 million in donations.

  Everyone knows and just about everyone uses Wikipedia for everything from quick fact checks to in depth research, and while the open format means that you run across the occasional obvious factual error and ultra-biased article, for the most part it’s an extremely useful service. And judging from the way the money rolled in-$4 million from individual donors and another $2 mil from “major gifts”- a service worth paying for, even though it’s free. Read more

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