Browsing Archive: February, 2010

Leet Speak 1337 Translation

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, In : Web Strategy

Note:
- The commas are added to separate symbols
- The symbol | (Example: B = |3 ) is a "down-slash", or "pipe", and not a lower-case "L" or capital "i"
- The symbol ` (Example: T = 7` ) is not a standard apostrophe, but is a "Grave Accent" and is found on the tilde (~) key
- Also keep in mind that the use of /-/ for H for example, aren't used nearly as often as the normal letter in a quick conversation. To write an entire sentence this way would take three times as long, thus the quicker singl...

How to Invite All Your Facebook Friends

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Facebook

I thought this script was clever. I rarely want to invite all my friends to anything. But this script works.

I set up a couple of groups on Facebook and wanted to invite all my friends, but it would have taken an eternity because for some strange reason Facebook doesn’t allow you to “select all” friends when sending an invite. I mean, they’ll let you do it… but only if you click one at a time! Uugh.

Well anyway I went on a little search and found that you could cheat the...

Bing SEO Tips

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : SEO

Here are the Bing SEO tips:

1. Domain Age is Key
Bing appears to put a lot of stock into how long ago a domain was registered. For marketers, this means that you may look to purchase older domains if you want to get on good position in Bing.

2. Text Rules
On most search engines, the amount of text on the page usually isn’t usually a huge factor. However, Bing appears to really like pages with at least 300 words of text.

3. Link Out
With Google especially, some markete...

William Arruda's Personal Branding Predictions

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Branding

1. Video, Video, Video

Thanks to greater bandwidth, cheaper storage, and a proliferation of products and services that make shooting, storing, viewing, and sharing video easy (Flip video, iPhone 3GS, YouTube, vimeo, blip.tv, vodpod, etc.), video will be king in 2010. Video is ideal because it allows careerists to deliver a complete communication and convey their personality—a critical component of branding.

2. Hiring Process

Companies will be hiring brands rather than employees. The...

Dont You Love Email Scams?

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Email

I was just cleaning out my spam folder and ran across these jewels. We have all seen variations of these things where in order to get money the dupe has to send some amount to free up a much larger amount. Not all of us have been educated about scams - and the good ones are always deceptive.

ACCEPT MY WILL!!!
From: CLAIRE WILLIAMS <info@williams.com>
To:

Good Day,

My name is Mrs Claire Williams. I am a dying woman who had decided to donate what I
have to you.I am 62 years old and was d...

Allen Bonde's 10 Steps To A Practical Social Media Strategy

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Social Media

1. Create a mission statement -- What are your top-level objectives for applying social media and Web 2.0? And how will you achieve them? Ideally, this can be boiled down to one statement, articulating both the vision and where you aim to focus in terms of specific strategies. Don’t skip – or skimp on – this one; it’s important.

2. Assign owners – Who will take the mission, build the team, secure the budget, identify the tools needed? And who will own each channel, like Li...

Link Facebook Wall Entries to Twitter

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Saturday, February 6, 2010, In : Twitter

You might be wondering how you can automatically post your wall entries on Facebook to Twitter. You want anything new happening on your fan page to be shared on Twitter. Its really quite simple. First go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter You will see a simple page that directs you to make the connection. After clicking you will be taken to a page showing all of you fan pages that you have control over. Find your fan page and click the button that says "Link to Twitter".