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Monday, November 4, 2013

The Social Media Toolkit

If you have Facebook, you probably have other social media outlets which means if you want to hit all of your info-sphere then you have to copy post to each of your outlets. Some outlets will post to other sites for you like:

Foursquare is good because it will post out to Facebook and Twitter.
Instagram will Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, email, Foursquare and Tumblr.
Amazon will also link up to your Facebook and Twitter, but the process is complicated.

This is time consuming and irritating as well as pointless. BECAUSE NOW, there is IFTTT. The process could not be easier. You build a recipe:

with your social media outlets to feed each other with content. With 70+ connected Channels you can tie together your google drive with your twitter and have a spreadsheet of all your tweets. or have your iPhone Camera dump picture straight to Facebook when you take a picture. the possibilites are in the thousands now, and growing daily.

Friday, October 4, 2013

The Body Tag

The <body> tag is used to hold the content of a web page. This tag is probably the most important and least talked about tag in all of web design. Without it you can not display any of your design.

<body>

all displayed design must fall with in these two tags

without them your site is useless

without your site they are useless

body can't do design with out it

</body>

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Facebook ReOrginization

In the ever changing landscape of social media, people now have one more thing to mind. The scrutiny being paid to Facebook (fb) is something that should not be taken lightly. With media, law enforcement, and the corporate world taking a vested interest in the content of fb, users should be careful with whats in their profile.

Denver man fired for complaining about work on Facebook is just the first Google search result that I found when I searched: facebook fired profile. It probably wouldn't take much for me to find various specific examples relating to other corporate issues, crime, or media saturation when it comes to the fb arena.

I know that my fb is different than most because my wife and I share a page. She is the business end of our fb and I occasionally reconnect with old friend or whatnot. A redesign for us would not be required. Most of our content is boring parenting stuff. If I had to do anything it would be to de-friend a few people that are obnoxious, but besides that theres not much on our fb that I'm not proud of.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Capitalizing on Technology

Besides the humor in this text, "There's a widely shared image on the Internet of a teacher's note that says: "Dear students, I know when you're texting in class. Seriously, no one just looks down at their crotch and smiles..." a valid question being addressed in this article over on WSJ: Should Students Use a Laptop in Class? I seriously love my iPad, iPhone and '07 Macbook. These devices have been my tools for the past 5 years, they allow me to do everything. As a career MIS professional who has been in the industry for 12 years, I doubt that I could be as effective with out all the interconnected apps and programs.

I am going back to school at Penn State, The Behrend College. I am exclusively using legal pads and pens in class for my notes. Everything I do gets written down and then later I transposed to digital medium. The reason for this is my thought process, I find that my hand/pen/paper combination is not as efficient at to attempt to do the same thing digitally.

A good example is outlining, I may be writing down unassociated items in class and writing down key words in the margin (something I haven't figured out how to do on my devices). I realize that the items are associated. At this point I start outlining them by adding the relevant leading letters and numbers with quick simplicity and a few short strokes. However, this same task digitally would take all of my concentration on the laptop or iPad. WHich would prevent me from focusing all of my attention on the professor.

I don't know if there is a reasonable, effective, direct and precise note-taking tool as there is with paper and pen. I am also comfortable with that.