Twitter Advanced Search Operators Twitter provides very useful, though complex, search functions, which can also be used within Tweetdeck. The easiest way to demonstrate their utility to to enter a few practice searches into the search page at all words in any position (Twitter search) Tweets containing the exact phrase (“Twitter search”) Tweets containing any […]
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Start at Twitter.com Before you take any steps, you’ll need a twitter account. You can’t sign up through TweetDeck, so you’ll need to go to Twitter.com and create an account. Once you’ve created an account, fill out your profile and update your privacy settings. Next, create a simple list to use when testing TweetDeck. TweetDeck’s
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Starting with Tweetdeck Before you make the commitment to downloading and installing the desktop version of Tweetdeck, you can get a taste by logging on the browser app at tweetdeck.twitter.com. Once you’ve logged on, you can add the accounts that you regularly access – usually your personal and work Twitter @handles. Click on the ‘Add
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Types of TweetDeck columns and what they display: Home: Timeline for one of your accounts Search: A column for a specific search term Followers: Follow activity for all your accounts or one specific account Tweets: Tweets from a specific account Mentions : Only includes when users mention a specific account Messages: Direct messages for a
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The Guardian just performed a major redesign based on new data from their home-grown analytics program. Abigail Edge (great name) from Journalism.co.uk interviewed Wolfgang Blau (great name too), director of digital strategy for the Guardian. Here are the bullet-points: Every Article Should be a Homepage You hear this a lot, because virtually all traffic comes
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A while ago I published “Adaptive vs. Responsive Design: What They Are, Why They Matter,” and immediately received some follow-up questions about HTML5. Here’s a very quick explanation: For the last fifteen years (since 1997, actually), we’ve been stuffing all sorts of new content onto the web using HTML, a markup language based on typesetter’s
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Another topic trending on my personal buzzword watch is “adaptive design vs. responsive design.” The difference is a bit confusing, but at the highest level, responsive design means building one design that works on all devices, “responding” to the device with design and layout changes. Adaptive design means “adapting” a single design to the conventions
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A friend recently asked what kind of projects I’d seen that were effective at bumping up traffic. The site he manages had recently started to plateau and he needed ideas. I said that in most cases execution was as important as the type of campaign, but I’d send him a brief list. Once I started
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Generally, when I’m looking for blog post art I search Flickr first (check the Creative Commons “commercial use” box) and Google next (select “usage rights:free to use or share, even commercially”). If they don’t have what I need, here are some other sites I check. I also like to skim them occasionally just for fun.
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A couple of years ago, I worked on a project that included building a recommendation engine for books. It seemed like a worthy goal until I looked at my bedside table, which was covered with books I hadn’t read yet. And the floor around the table. And my home office desk. And my desk at
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