Leveraging RSS Feeds and The Sage-Too Addon For Firefox

by James M. Helms on October 14, 2008

There are a wide variety of aggregators around the internet. Some of them are better than others. If you are new to RSS feeds or don’t quite understand their value this video is for you. If you are relatively in-experienced I would really appreciate your feedback, you can leave it in the comments, go to the feedback forum on the left, or join and comment on the Facebook group.

While there are a wide variety of aggregators there are trade offs dependent upon which aggregator you use. Today’s tool that I suggest you consider is Sage-Too, a slim, easy to access, very functional aggregator. There are a couple of reasons why, please read on and watch the video below. [Continue Reading This Article…]

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BudUrl is an online link shortener that provides additional click stats. The video below shows the true value of this great online tool. You’re right, there are a variety of link shorteners available but BudURL provides better stats to keep you really informed.

After you create an account at BudURL simply insert the link that you want to track. After you convert the link and post it within a page of your choice you can see a graph of how many people click on the link. The really cool part of BudURL is being able to see almost real time data, the click stream page updates automatically every 10 seconds. As the video points out you can can create a note within the individual links to quickly see which links are being clicked under the click stream tab. Watch the video below to find out more about it. [Continue Reading This Article…]

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Collaborative Drawing Share a Whiteboard Online

by James M. Helms on October 7, 2008

Over the last decade more and more individuals started working from home. And why not? Technology and communication have advanced and made it feasible. There are some set backs to working from home and I am not talking about productivity, productivity has been known to increase. I’m talking about collaborative tools that foster creative thinking beyond action steps and checklists. There are a growing list of tools available and Dabbleboard is one that I recently came across that I wanted to share with you.

I can chit-chat about it all day long. Instead I’ve made a short screencast showing some of the features that are available using Dabbleboard. Watch the video below. [Continue Reading This Article…]

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UserVoice Promotes Social Media Based Community

by James M. Helms on October 4, 2008

UserVoice Social Media ToolSocial Media is a catch phrase that everyone and their dog is using. I’m not trying to use the word lightly when I use it in the post, just so you know. Social media is a strategic decision that is implemented by businesses to engage with their customers and listen to and meet the needs that their customers have. There are a lot of ways that this is being done and using a user feedback forums is one way that is being entirely under used. Not all user feedback forums offer the same functionality. I ran into one a while back that seems to offer superior features, UserVoice. [Continue Reading This Article…]

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URL Shortening and Click Through Stats Services

by James M. Helms on September 29, 2008

You may have come across one of many services that offer to shorten your URL’s.  There are a variety of ways you can use URL shortening services.  Some of the ways are pretty obvious, such as condensing URL’s so you can fit more characters in less space.  However, there are other benefits to using short URL’s when you use advanced statistics for measuring clicks. [Continue Reading This Article…]

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