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900 million people are on Facebook and it is one of the most used website every single day, but how effectively are they using it? Could they be classified as power users?
According to a recent study by Pew Internet, a Facebook power user is defined in the infographic below as “extra engaged in one or more activities on the social network… and are essentially invisible drivers of most of the site’s activity.” These activities include comment, tagging friends in photos, sending friend requests, liking something, sending private messages, and posting status updates.
Here is the infographic:
How many core Facebook activities do you use regularly?
[via DemandForce]
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Most organizations and people who are creating web content desire some sort of positive web presence.
Whether it’s an organization that is selling products, a ministry promoting a new initiative, or a pastor sharing his work, there is a desire to build a web presence or platform, and preferably one that is positive, growing, and influential in their niche.
3 Ways to Improve Your Web Presence
1) Create shareable content.
If you want to improve your brand or organization’s web presence, you need to producing content that is shareable. We live in a world of tweets, pins, and Facebook sharing. If your content isn’t something that is easily shareable, forget about people even realizing it exists. Gone are the days where people simply visit your site to find new information. Find ways to make it easier to share you content and to create content that promotes social sharing.
- Do your sermons have short, simple snippets that people can easily watch and share on their social networks?
- When you write a blog post, do you have ways to share those built into your site?
- When you create media for your church, is it being uploaded online so that people can keep watching it or do you show it once and leave it on your local hard drive?
2) Create quality content.
No matter how easy it might be to share the content that you’re producing, if it’s not any good, it doesn’t matter. The quality of the content that you post on the web determines the perception that your brand has online. If you spend all your time focusing on generating traffic, but never put in the time and effort to produce quality material, your web presence will not be a lasting one. While the ease of sharing may generate traffic, the quality of your content will determine whether or not people keep returning.
- Are you writing on your blog because you have something of value to share or simply in hopes that you might generate more traffic?
- Is there material being produced within your congregation that is of quality already that you simply need to find ways to share with the world?
3) Create consistent content.
In order for visitors to become fans you have to be creating new content consistently. If you have one stellar blog post, sermon, or design that’s may get a temporary influx of visitors, but if you consistently produce top-notch material people will keep coming back and will no longer be simply visitors but fans. And fans don’t just look, they share.
- Did you start a podcast for your ministry but haven’t updated it in months?
- Do you routinely start blogging and drop off the face of the blogosphere for months at a time?
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With much anticipation and plenty of speculation, Coda 2 is available, today.
Does it live up to all the hype?
Short answer:
Yes.
Long answer:
Everything is better. More polish. More ease.
Life is good in Coda 2.
The most annoying things have been corrected while requested features have been added, along with some super-duper new stuff that you didn’t know you wanted and will soon be unable to live without.
It’s easy enough to go drool on the Coda 2 website, so let me go over some of the highlights:
- Code Folding
- Live CSS Updating
- Smart Complete
- Sweet Workflow Improvements
- Better Find & Replace
- New UI (This could be bad for those that hate change, but once you get over it, you’ll love it!)
- Git — added.
- Amazon s3 — added.
- iCloud Sync for Sites & Clips
- Built-in Web Inspector
- Full GUI for MySQL Management.
This is just a few of the 100+ new features in Coda 2.
Screenshots
They’ve also released Diet Coda. This will sync your iPad to your code environment as a dedicated preview as you code. Diet Coda also gives you the ability to make quick code fixes on the go.
Nifty.
Upgrades & Pricing
Coda 2 is a paid upgrade.
So, unless you purchased it directly from Panic in the last month or so, you’ll have to throw down your cash on the full priced Coda 2.
However, there is good news for veteraned, new and soon-to-be Coda users: For the first 24 hours, Coda 2 & Diet Coda will be 50% off. That’s today!
Learn more and get Coda 2 (and Diet Coda) from the Coda 2 website.
Are you getting Coda 2, today?
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The top box is darker right?
Here’s how you can be sure:
Cover the borderline that separates the two with your finger.
[via Today I Learned Something New]
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Creative? Check.
Inspiring? Check.
Awesome? Without a doubt.
Please, proceed:
[via UFUNK]
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Sometimes the built-in graphic headgear offered by the Google+ Hangout isn’t enough.
Every month, the ChurchMag Authors Network guys arrange a Google+ Hangout. Some of us miss one here and there, but there’s always enough of us to have a good time.
If you’re not familiar with the ChurchMag Authors Network, it’s all the ChurchMag guest authors who post at least four times a month. For those interested in joining, here are the details:
- Write 15 to 20 posts
Depends on the length, quality, etc …
- Post at least four times per month
No slackers. Community includes involvement.
This will give you access to the ChurchMag Authors Network Yammer channel (Think: Private Facebook). We goof-off, share ideas, ask advice — we have a great time.
What’s New?
Starting in June, the ChurchMag Authors Network writer who has the most pageviews for the month (a single post), will receive a $30 gift certificate to Amazon, Apple, ThinkGeek or Threadless.
You get the idea. A place of awesomeness.
So, if you want to join the ChurchMag Authors Network, all you have to do is start posting!
Any questions?
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Facebook’s IPO is the latest tech news to hit the world news and it is making a huge splash. But the question many critics of Facebook have is if it is worth all of the buzz. Similar to Google, Facebook will be making the majority of it’s money off of advertisements, but recent news has come out that it might not be going as successful as it would initially have appeared.
With these details floating around, businesses who do online marketing need to be asking which one is better? You may still want to advertise in both arenas, but the results of this infographic may sway just how much you will want to invest.
We pulled the best parts of the infographic out for you:
- By WordStream’s rating: Google’s ads are the better choice.
- Facebook only reaches 51% of Internet users but has 1 trillion pageviews a month. Google reaches 90% of the Internet users and has 180 billion ad impressions each month
- Facebook made $1.06 billion this first quarter, Google has made nearly three times that.
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Do you do any online advertising? If so, where and how do you feel about the results?
[via Mashable]
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This past weekend we posted about a nifty Instagram concept camera.
It was full of the Instagram style and culture. A very cool concept, indeed!
I mentioned in the post that I thought it would be cool if they would release a camera that ran apps. You could install Instragram, Hipstamatic and other camera apps, as well as some nifty social networking functionality.
It looks as though the kind of camera I was dreaming-up almost exists as I’ve described!
Samsung
Samsung has released (and yet to release) a broad range of WiFi enabled cameras ranging from $140 to $1,000.
The SH100, picture above and below, can be purchased via Amazon for less than $150, and the WiFi integration looks pretty sweet.
Sure, it’s no iPhone, but it’s one step closer to to easily getting your point-and-click photos online easily.
You can upload your photos straight to Facebook, Picasa and more or email directly from the camera. You can also upload videos to YouTube.
Yeah.
That’s easy.
Real easy.
I would love the ability to easily upload my photos to my computer via WiFi, the social networking and Picasa integration is simply be icing on the cake.
A 14-megapixel resolution with 5x optical zoom with WiFi?
Yes, please!
Do you think we’ll see more camera’s going this direction?
[via Samsung]
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So many of you have been asking about how to create a Facebook ad.
So in the video blog, below, we take a look at how to:
- Setup a Facebook ad from a very practical perspective, including if you should include a lot of people into your target audience,
- How the ad should look, and
- What the different options for our budget could look like.
You need to make sure that your Facebook ad is enticing, uses proper branding techniques, and points to the right section of your Facebook page.
If done well, your Facebook reach will group significantly, your Likes will jump, and you will find new fans for your ministry or business.
You making a Facebook ad? Share with the group!
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Yes, please!
I love the concept behind jQuery ProQuo.
In it’s current state, it would work well for static pages, you could probably tie it in for some other nifty stuff too, but please, oh please, will someone turn jQuery ProQuo into a WordPress plugin!
Check this out:
jQuery ProQuo
I know, I know. Boring page and lack-luster landing page, but stick with me, okay?
I’ll let you visit the jQuery ProQuo website to get the deets on how to use it and download and all the rest of that. But first, let me tell you in the simplest form what this little thing does.
Make it easy-peasy for your web visitors to Tweet quotes — truncated or full — in a really slick way.
As in the screenshot below, click the “Tweet” button after the quote, and it renders the Tweet, link and all!
As pictured above, you can see how easy it would be stylize it and really make it — I really hate to say this, but — pop!
In all seriousness, though, how great would this be as a plugin? Either by making all block quotes Tweetable or optional via shortcode.
Even more practical than that, thinking off the top of my head here, dropping this in a WordPress theme as a “Quote” post type?
Yeah.
I like this idea.
Whether this makes into a WordPress theme or plugin, I really like the idea behind jQuery ProQuo. There’s a lot of potential with it. Put in the right hands, you could do some really creative stuff with it.
Learn more and download on the jQuery ProQuo website.
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