This is one that I didn’t quite get my head wrapped around until recently. Although they have similar functionality, there are small but significant differences between a Facebook fan page and a Facebook group page.
First, let’s look at how they’re similar:

Both types of pages allow you, and other people, to express their affinity for something. Be it dogs, planes, a person, celebrity etc.
Both allow you to setup forums and have discussions
Both have a wall for posts and allow sharing pictures and videos
Both allow you to message members in bulk
Both allow …

After attending the Kyle Chamber of Commerce Ambassador B.A.S.H. and talking to some of the people that were at the event, I got the feeling that there’s a need for someone to teach people how to make websites on their own. What I’m thinking of doing, is hosting a 1 day WordPress Camp to teach people about WordPress and how to use it.
It won’t quite be a WordCamp, although in spirit it will probably be close to one.
My original thought was to have something virtual, maybe 3 sessions of about …

I read somewhere that applications and new technology don’t take off unless they have a “killer application” or a “killer app.”  For twitter, you’d think the fact that news usually breaks first on there, or that the first pictures from just about any big news event show up on twitter first (remember the plane in the Hudson?). You’d think that news delivery would be Twitter’s killer app.
You’d be wrong.
Follow me down this path for a moment…
I was thinking about the fact that there are pornographers on Twitter. To me, it …

If you’ve spent any time on twitter, you may have noticed people closing tweets with a text like this:
#3turnoffwords
or
#followfriday
or
#tcc
You may wondering, what do those mean?
Well, those are called hashtags, and essentially they are topics that people are talking about.  In the current version of twitter, the application is kind enough to show you in the sidebar what the most popular hashtags are at any given moment.
If a hashtag you’re interested in isn’t in the sidebar, no worries, you can actually perform a twitter search and find all of the …

I’ve been working a lot on my twitter presence. As such, I’ve discovered that there are some things that are more likely than other to get me to unfollow you. In talking to other tweeple (people on twitter) I discovered that a lot of us share these same guidelines.
Without further ado, here are my 5 things:
1. Marketing bot.
If all you do, is twitter about your program, your ebook, your this, your that, your the other and how I can buy your stuff using a special coupon or whatever, you’ll …

WordPress is one of the most flexible web platforms out today. WordPress “earned its chops” as a blogging platform, but in recent versions it has evolved into a platform that is capable of doing so much more.
A CMS (Content Management System) is a system that allows you to control all of the content that is on your website. Not only can you control the content on the pages, but a CMS also allows you to control the look and feel of your site. Some companies spend thousands if not millions …

One of the neatest things about Twitter is that it is easy to automate many functions. One of the most misunderstood and misused functions on Twitter is the direct message.  There are third party services that let you automatically message people that sign up to follow you on Twitter, I do not believe that you should auto direct message people when they follow you.
Let me say, that I used to auto-message people when they followed me back in my early days on Twitter. I thought that a quick welcome message …

In theory, the principle of optimizing your web site for the search engines is very simple. What you want to do, is to have keywords on your site, that match the keywords that people type in on the search engines. The search engines will crawl the content on your site and send you searchers that will find what you have on your site relevant to what the searchers are looking for.
It’s as simple as that, in theory. Where it gets tricky is in the execution. For …

In case you don’t know, by default twitter allows you to follow up to 2000 people before limits start to kick in. Some of the limits are based on the number of followers that you have, and other limits are based on things like API calls and whatnot that only the uber-geeks among us understand.
Most people won’t care about the 2000 people follow limit since they have no interest in following more than that number anyway. Regardless, I think that a lot of people will want to know how …

What is twitter?
Twitter is a micro-blogging website or service. What micro-blogging means is that it is a site where you can blog but you are limited to 140 characters or less.
In 140 characters you need to convey the message that you want. Usually it’s something short, like what you’re having for lunch, the plane they just crashed off the runway, or the pictures of the terrorists in Mumbai.

Who uses twitter?

Twitter has a global reach, which is one of its strengths. The way it works is like this, after you …