Archives for "February, 2010"

Posted by Melissa on 10th February 2010

Google Buzz: #FAIL or Fab?

For me, Google is the new LinkedIn.
I have a Google account linked to about 20 of Google’s various services. Analytics, YouTube, Reader, Alerts, AdWords, Docs, Maps, FeedBurner, Notebook … and these are all great services that have a huge impact on what I’m able to do via the Internet – as a consumer [...]

Posted by Melissa on 5th February 2010

Toyota teams up with Digg to answer public questions

Just had this email pop through from Digg.com, asking me to submit my questions for the President of Toyota (in the wake of the potentially soon-to-be largest automobile recall in history).
Toyota has definitely opened itself up here, it will be interesting to see which questions is answers and how.  Here are some samples submitted so [...]

Posted by Melissa on 5th February 2010

Facebook & LinkedIn show better results over time for sharing links

Our redesigned alumni newsletter was emailed out this past Tuesday evening. On Wednesday morning, we created 3 separate bit.ly links and used each on a different social network when promoting the online newsletter.
We posted status updates with the links on Twitter and Facebook, and started a discussion including the link on our LinkedIn alumni [...]

Posted by Melissa on 3rd February 2010

2009 Slideshare Statistics: wow, thank you!

Slideshare is a fantastic service for sharing presentations (and other things as well) – I repeatedly recommend it here at work and if it isn’t the presentation equivalent of Flickr to photos, I hope that it someday is.
The site sent me an automatic email with the following stats for my 2009 presentations:

1855 views
206 [...]

Posted by admin on 3rd February 2010

Patience Please

I’m in the process of switching to a new server – which means I’m even less likely to update right now.
Apologies!
M.