Tag Archives: Marketing Videos

Video: The World of Social Media 2011

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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The World of Social Media Video Infographic 2011

In 2011, Facebook passed Google as the #1 most visited site on the internet with 11% of the world’s population and the average user having 130 friends spending 700 minutes a month on the network. Every 60 seconds 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 status updates and 136,000 uploaded photos. The numbers are simply mind-boggling and continue to increase. Overseas where folks don’t have electricity or broadband, they use cars to charge their smartphones and connect via mobile phone. The world is social. Produced by VideoInfographs

WordPress rel=”prev” and rel=”next”

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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WordPress rel prev rel next

Quite a few years ago, folks would fine-tune their pages using a technique called nofollow. Basically, if you wrote rel=”nofollow” within an anchor tag (a link), the theory was that the search engine would ignore that link and ignore the next page. It’s been used extensively by sites like Wikis and within comments so that user-edited links wouldn’t be abused and followed. Search Engine consultants quickly realized how useful these types of links were, sprinkling them throughout links on the page so that some links were weighted more heavily than … Continue reading →

Infographic: Social Media and Enterprise

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Enterprise Social Media

The folks at Get Satisfaction have released a new Infographic on Social Media and the Enterprise, called Let’s Get Down to Social Business. From the infographic: By 2014, the market for social enterprise tools, software and services is predicted to reach $4.6 billion worldwide. This new generation of technologies is rising up to meet a growing demand for connectivity and transforming all aspects of business. Amid the chaos, new markets and leaders will emerge. Journalists will embrace them, and PR pros will manage the process. Let’s dive into the ballooning … Continue reading →

Create Mobile Themes with WPtouch Pro

Posted on by Jenn Lisak
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Mobile Themes

In a fast moving world, it’s important that your site is optimized on all mobile devices, including phones and tablets. According to a recent infographic produced by Microsoft Tag, mobile internet usage will takeover desktop usage by the year 2014. Needless to say, your mobile site is one of your primary marketing assets in today’s world. WPtouch Pro is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create and enable a rich mobile theme for your site. The plugin provides a framework where you can create a customized theme that … Continue reading →

WordPress Automatic Feed Links

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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RSS White

Brennan Knotts asked me on Twitter today if he could get a custom feed of the Mobile Marketing blog posts only. Woohoo! One of the factors of our redesign was to build out these custom categories so visitors could just read the information they wanted, without having to see every single post on the blog. WordPress continues to enhance its platform with many features that don’t get a lot of attention. However, with the release of WordPress 3, they added theme support for automated feed links in your header. This … Continue reading →

Pagelines: Drag and Drop WordPress Theming

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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PageLines

Ironically, I was just speaking to an agency this morning on the complexity of theming within WordPress. For folks like us that are both PHP developers, have done a ton of themes and plugins and fully understand the WordPress API, it’s not bad. Unfortunately, that’s out of reach for some companies and individuals, though. Bottom line – having to call a developer each time you wish to modify your layout or theme can get expensive! PageLine is changing this with their product, PlatformPro. Platform’s front-end design is based on a … Continue reading →