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How To Add Boxes to the Wall Sidebar of Your Facebook Page

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the new Facebook Profile and Page Roadmap Update fan page boxes are being phased out.  Now you need to use a Custom Tab.  For help getting a custom tab setup and a starter template please read our post: Add A Custom Tab to Your Facebook Fan Page – Starter Template Included. [...]

How to Add Google Analytics to Wordpress

These directions assume you have a Google Analytics account set up and have access to the tracking script code provided by Google. An alternative solution is to use a Wordpress Plugin to install Google Analytics for you. Google Analytics for Wordpress stands out to me based on its ratings, over 700,000 downloads, version status (3.25) [...]

Umbraco and PayPal form content

Before you display or render your (or your client’s) PayPal “Add to Cart” generated “buttons” on your page, you should add a “dummy” form

Selecting Social Media Guides

John Bergquist, a fellow social media professional for whom I have a high professional and personal regard recently published a blog post suggesting that the title of “social media expert” is overstated if we consider his observation:

“Social Media is such a new frontier that there really is no way that someone could honestly claim to [...]

Using Flickr For Your Organization, Business, Product, or Charity

I’ve been using Flickr for about 6-7 years now for my blog and personally and I love it. It is the YouTube of photos. Tons of people use it and what make it really useful are all of the social media parts built right in.
One of the reasons I like using Flickr is [...]

Creating Blind Accessible Web Sites and Applications

The reality for more than 20 million Americans who are blind or have low-vision is that the web is generally an unfriendly place. As web application developers we can choose to improve this situation or continue to carelessly contribute to it. The good news is that many of things that web developers and designers can [...]

ProWorks is Helping Businesses Leverage Social Media in Corvallis

Our third session on ‘Social Media for Business’ hosted at the Corvallis Chamber was attended by fourteen forward minded social media explorers around Corvallis. It was great mix including Mayor Tomlinson, marketing professionals, brick-n-mortar and web store owners. The mix of experience and perspectives made for some great discussions.

Some of the things we talked [...]

No iPhone? How To Effectively Use Twitter On Your Mobile Phone

With all of the iPhone buzz over the last few days, I thought I’d give some tips to those of you that don’t have a 3GS in your future. I’ve been using a Sony Eriksson w810i to browse, check facebook, tweet, and generally browse the internet sucessfully for almost 3 years.  This post is for [...]

Make Twitter.com More Useful Than TweetDeck or Twhirl

The first thing I used to say to a Twitter noob was: “Get a Twitter client like TweetDeck or Twhirl because using it on the web sucks”.
After I discovered Troy’s Twitter Script I have a different outlook on the Twitter web client.  It simply does things that my Twhirl or TweetDeck client doesn’t do.  Here [...]

Breaking Website Projects Down in Plain Language

Wrapping your head around a business website is a difficult task for all but the most simplest of sites. After years in the web industry I still find it challenging. I’ve found that breaking a web project into a four basic layers greatly helps us and our clients understand how the website will serve its [...]