This will be the last post here on Fedorable.
I’m leaving this blog, but I’m not leaving blogging. If you want to read my latest rants on social media, public relations or any of the other random topics I’ve discussed, please head over to StrikePad, Match Strike’s blog on web development, where I will be stretching [...]
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How to create a social media newsroom in 30 seconds
Here at Presskit’n, our product is free social media newsrooms. Not a lot of people have heard of us, so sometimes we’ll see a post on building social media newsrooms (SMNs) that leaves us scratching our heads. Here’s an example newsroom for the curious.
So here it is:
1. Create a Presskit’n account. Enter your e-mail, name [...]
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Happy Holidays from IvyLees and Fedorable
Just posting to say, “Happy Holidays!”
It’s been a pretty wild year (and decade) for public relations. Take these next few days to relax and enjoy the holiday spirit, and most importantly to remember what matters: Friends, family, and good times.
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The Great Facebook Brand Backlash
A couple weeks ago I discussed brand backlash using Starbucks’ recent brand issues as an example. I had planned a follow-up article talking about Facebook’s inevitable brand backlash.
Well, I waited too long, because last week it became all too clear that the Great Facebook Brand Backlash was upon us.
In case you weren’t around, here’s what happened: [...]
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When a co-founder dies
Greg and I have tried here on Fedorable to give our insights on various challenges we have faced in developing Presskit’n and IvyLees. It’s in that spirit that I write this post, even though he’s not here to help me with it.
Greg died on Sunday, September 13th in a car accident while returning from ProgPower, [...]
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Newest revenue stream accessible via Twitter: Lawsuits
Gawker is reporting on an apartment management company that’s sued a former tenant over a tweet.
In the tweet, the tenant said her apartment was moldy and also mentioned the company, Horizon, by name. The damages claim? 50,000 bucks.
The tenant had 20 followers. That’s 2500 bucks a follower.
At the moment, Horizon Realty is a trending topic [...]
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Keeping Private Information Secure with SSL Certificates
With more and more things going wireless, security can be an issue. In a wired network you would probably notice someone trying to plug into your cable modem, but with free public wifi becoming ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that the information you are submitting might be in plain text. And with really private information [...]
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Using Sitemaps to Help Google Index new Pages
Google finds new pages by following links when it crawls a currently indexed page. To get new pages showing in Google search results faster, websites can provide a sitemap.xml file that provides a link to every page on the site that should be in google’s index. In addition to that, websites can ping Google whenever [...]
IvyLees gets major overhaul, thanks Hacker News
We recently posted on Hacker News asking for feedback on IvyLees.
And they helped us out. Big time. Thanks, guys.
You’ll notice some changes on the site as a result of their feedback. We’re not done yet, but the bulk of the suggestions are implemented. I’ll try to highlight some of the changes:
You can now create News [...]
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