Category Archives: Social Media

Personalized Twitter Background

While reading my morning RSS feeds, I saw an article about creating a custom Twitter background. Since I didn’t have anything else planned for the day, I decided to attempt an update on my profile. Previously, I had a picture … Continue reading

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Add Captions to a YouTube Video

I’m taking an online CSS course at SitePoint, and the instructions include some YouTube video tutorials. Yesterday’s video included captions, and so I did some poking around, to see how they were added. To add the captions, you need a … Continue reading

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Creating Lists in Twitter

Funny. Only a day after I mentioned TweetDeck, and its Group feature, Twitter launched its new Lists feature. Now I can create lists, such as Excel and Microsoft, and include the people who I follow into one or more of … Continue reading

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Cut Through the Twitter Clatter

Some Twitter users follow thousands of people, and join in hundreds of conversations every day. I follow just over 100 people (actually 123 – I like that number). Some of them are chatty, and others rarely post. Even with that … Continue reading

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Vanity URLs for Facebook Pages

It looks like Facebook has finally lowered or removed the minimum number of fans required to register a vanity URL for a page. When the vanity URL feature was first announced, a page needed 1000 fans. Then they reduced it … Continue reading

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Create a Facebook Page For Your Business

Instead of using my personal Facebook page for business news, I’ve created two pages for Excel related updates. One is for Contextures, and it has general Excel news and automatic updates from my Contextures blog. The other page is for … Continue reading

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