How to: Build Track-able Links for Google Analytics
Analyzing your websites traffic is a great way to determine how and where you should devote you efforts and resources to attract more traffic. Most analytics software provide the necessary tools to report this traffic information, but building a utm sourced link will help sort and organize your advertising campaigns. In this how to, I [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Claims Another Athlete: Larry Johnson Barred After Twitter Slur
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Kansas City Chief Star Running Back Larry Johnson has landed himself in hot water after making an anti-gay comments on his Twitter account. The incident ,which occurred during an exchange with one of his Twitter followers, was exacerbated after Johnson used the same anti-gay slur to brush off reporters a day later. [...]
Continue reading...Inside Windows 7 with Cordell Jones (Video)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I had the opportunity to sit down with Windows 7 Program Manager Cordell Jones. Cordell has worked with Microsoft for the past 14 years, with the past 2 years focused on Windows 7. Some of Cordell’s past project include Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Exchange. Cordell now works on the networking side of Windows 7. Cordell is [...]
Continue reading...How To: Track your Reader’s Response using Google Website Optimizer and Wordpress (Video)
Thursday, October 22, 2009
A/B testing, it’s a technique used to track an audience’s response by comparing the success of different text, layouts, images and colors. This technique has been used in direct mail marketing for years, but now major technology companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are using the technique prior to launching major website changes. Even bloggers [...]
Continue reading...Bing’s Wack New Jingle
Friday, August 7, 2009
As responsible consumers of the web, there’s no way we should have allowed Bing’s new jingle contest to infect with web without at least attempting to inject a little flavor into it. Announced in July, the contest employed video and music hobbits to create a jingle for Microsoft’s newest search engine. The contest lasted approximately [...]
Continue reading...LiveSteez and Lossip Enter Deadpool
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
If you woke up this morning expecting to browse Livesteez.com’s online videos, catch up on Latin or Chinese flavored gossip on Lossip.com and MingXingYao.com, don’t bother. All three sites were abruptly and without notice shutdown, sometime this week. Instead of a landing page with an official statement announcing the sites closure, Moguldom Media Group (MMG) [...]
Continue reading...Coder Girl
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Rapping about Technology is not a new phenomenon. We covered the YouTube hit, Design Coding by Poetic Profit AKA the SEO Rapper and I’ve mention in the past the NerdCore band Monzy with their cult classic Kill Dash 9. Today we bring to you Dale Chase’s Ode to female coders, Coder Girl. Enjoy!
Continue reading...Mediatakeout.com Blocked by Firefox for Installing Malicious Software
Thursday, July 23, 2009
If you’ve installed the latest version of the Firefox (3.0.12), you may have trouble browsing MediaTakeOut.com. Internal pages at MTO, one of the most visited African-American websites online, were blocked by Firefox because malicious software found on some of the sites pages. According to the Google Safe Browsing Report generated by Firefox: Of the 956 pages [...]
Continue reading...Video: Urban League CEO Marc Morial discusses Web Strategy
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
We caught up with the Urban League’s CEO Marc Morial to discuss the company’s usage of social media to communicatate and connect with urban communities. Currently the company’s Twitter and Facebook accounts have been used primarily to promote the Urban League’s news and events. Morial would like to refocus their social media efforts to affect [...]
Continue reading...2009 Blogging While Brown Wrap Up
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The 2nd annual Blogging While Brown Conference, held at the University Center in Chicago, IL, was an extraordinary gathering of participants from diverse backgrounds and a wide range of technological skill levels with many ideas. Though the participant’s backgrounds were diverse, they gathered with one common goal; to discuss the issues affecting bloggers of color. [...]
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