Leverage the power of Social Media for your business! This comprehensive social media package will give you the edge like industry pro’s have when trying to get the most from social marketing.
5 Must have Social Media Management Apps
Small Business Owners and freelancers alike want to have the upper hand using applications that help them get work done efficiently and effectively and working in social media is no different.
At Virtually(Creative), I’ve helped small businesses grow quickly with our marketing and social media strategies. I use a number of social media apps myself to help manage the relationships with my audience across the social web and for clients. I’ve spent countless hours going through the App Stores of all 3 major services (Blackberry, iPhone, Android) and I’ve come up with these top 5 applications plus a bonus application.
Facebook’s Share Link Photo
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JS Hint
This nifty webapp is a scripting godsend! Personally, I do a lot of work with JavaScript and when it comes time to subcontract work out if I need to manage a workload or a project’s timeline I need to be able to trust in whom I’ve picked to help and in their ability and logical markup. Obviously I would be doing a screening, but I know what happends deep into projects, many hours and lines of code from the starting point. Those perfect semantics you handed in at the interview time arn’t looking as pretty now, and rather then make sure I just drop what they give through my own personal “vaildator”. Enter: JSHint.
“JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team’s coding conventions. It is very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.”
JSHint is an open-source project that is supported and maintained by the JavaScript developer community. The source code …
The CMS Uber Guide: Hosted
Lots of hosted CMS options, let’s break it down
A Hosted CMS is totally owned and operated by the provider of that CMS. This is benefitial in numerious ways depending on your point of view. You don’t have to worry about setups, maintenance and updates to the system: everything is done for you. A hosted CMS also scales upwards very well, being able to handle most traffic spikes, and all for a single, little, or no cost. The downside can be limited flexablity in how you’re able to deploy/customize the CMS and not all are free.
Squarespace
This CMS is quite well designed and has a great user interface. It’s easy to get started, simple to use and updates almost automatically. The custom templates are easy to put your own content into and their are tonnes of extra options to add functionality to your site like photo galleries, forms, maps, forums all by inserting them into defined blocks. If you know CSS you can fully customize themes or make your own using the provided controls for editing. The only …
HTC Touch Pro2; XAndroid is here!
Sticking with Windows Mobile 6.1 finally pays off. After upgrading to the HTC Touch Pro 2 from Blackberry Pearl 8130 from Telus Mobility 4 months ago I was starting to feel something I thought I never would; Iphone envy. There I said it. I would never pay and get an Iphone, but I had to admit I wanted one for a moment.
Thankfully, I’m a logical guy and know that it’s not the HTC Touch Pro2, it’s by HTC and is a wonderful piece of hardware. A fantastic phone with thought out architecture and a freakin’ sweet keyboard. No matter how awesome touchscreen technology is, I NEED my keyboard. So really, my problem is with Windows Mobile 6.1. For some reason Telus has not spoken about any future updates for the Touch Pro2 so I took it upon myself like many others to find something more. And here it is:
Their are various builds of Google’s Android platform on various HTC, Samsung, Nokia Smartphones. Until now, however, each of the Android flavours have been shady and unreliable at best. What …
Slice Internet marketing down to size!
After being in web development now for over 4 years on and off, had I known what this nifty application tells me now I could be blogging to you from my private yacht.
Market Samurai figures out ways to surprise me that even Frank’s red hot sauce commercials couldn’t! It enlightens on the dao of real Internet marketing.It also showed the 3 golden rules. Rules, so important that if you break just even 1: YOU WILL FAIL.
No one could of prepared me for the beating I was going to give myself having learned of all the time I’ve wasted in the past with search engine optimization madness, and it is madness lets face it. The modules easily and quickly breakdown all the aspects I’m going to need to really optimize SEO for websites.
Offering 8 modules (7 + 1 coming soon) the Noble Samurai team (creators of this awesome program) have bestowed upon you access to:
keyword researchrank followingSEO competitionmonetizationfind contentpublish contentpromotionadwords (coming soon!)
If you’re into SEO or web development, this program is a must have! Even …