Archive for the ‘FridayFix’ Category

Posted on December 11, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: 6 ways to track your blips in Google Wave

Friday Fix are short post on niche topics/plugins/tools/presentations or you could call them short simple tips.

As Google Wave continues to evolve one of the many complaints about Wave is there is no way to receive a notification when you have a new “blip” aka Google Wave message in general. Well after a few weeks and giving programmers some time, it seems there are a few Google Wave desktop notifiers and extensions for both Firefox and Google Chrome.

Chrome Extension – Google Wave Checker

Google Wave Checker

Unofficial Google Wave Notifier for mac

Google Wave Notifier Beta for Windows

Google Wave Add-on for Firefox 0.0.3

Prism or Fluid or Wave Desktop App

PS: If you’re asking what a “blip” is read: Google Wave: A Complete Guide via Mashable

Posted on December 4, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: 3 solutions to solve your social web inbox problem

Friday Fix are short post on niche topics/plugins/tools/presentations or you could call them short simple tips.

One problem with the social web now is that we have too many inboxes. We have our work email, personal email, Facebook inbox mail, Facebook email from Facebook inbox, Twitter direct messages, Twitter new followers email, Flickr email, google alerts, real-time brand notifications and I think you get the picture. Depending on how “social” you are, managing your inbox can be very challenging and time consuming. This all while we wait to see how Google Wave will evolve, it could be a social web inbox platform or just another inbox to manage. Regardless here are three solutions to help solve your social web inbox problem.

1. Inbox2 – http://www.inbox2.com

2. Threadsy – https://www.threadsy.com

3. Gist – http://gist.com/

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In the future I’ll record a screencast of each of the services for a further comparison.
Are you using any of the three? If so let me know how it has helped you manage your social web inbox?

Posted on November 20, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: 4 ways to add a Facebook Share button to your Wordpress Blog

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Friday Fix and in case you’re wondering what exactly is Friday Fix. Friday Fix are just short post on niche topics/plugins/presentations or you could call them short simple tips. :) Regardless today’s Friday Fix is about Facebook Share buttons and Facebook Share count buttons. I’m sure you have seen them on Mashable or TechCrunch and if you’re looking to make your blog a little more social, adding these buttons can help.
Here are four WordPress plugins that make it easy for your readers to share your post on Facebook.

1. fbShare.me: A sharecount button for Facebook* http://www.fbshare.me/

2. FB Share Button Wordpress Plugin for Facebook Share : http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/10/26/introducing-the-fb-share-button-wordpress-plugin-for-facebook-share/

3. Add To Facebook Plugin – http://nothing.golddave.com/?page_id=108

4. Facebook Share (New) Button – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/ (looks just like #2)

Posted on September 11, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Tweetiator alerts you in real-time when people share links to your content on Twitter. Invites!

The Pitch
Tweetiator.com alerts you in real time when people share links to your content on Twitter and lets you follow and message them

Link sharing analytics are easy to get if you are the sharer of a link (by using link shorteners like bit.ly, and a bunch of others) but until Tweetiator were not available to the site owner. This is a very useful marketing tool because when people share your content, they are much more likely to respond to offers, promotions, and surveys.

To use Tweetiator, you download a little JavaScript and you can watch and interact with the people sharing links to your content from the Tweetiator dashboard, get alerts via email, or download a .csv file.

Cost
After your thirty day free trial it’s just $4.95 a month.

Created by: NimbleSource @nimblesource

For more information see Tweetiator’s FAQ page:  http://www.tweetiator.com/help/faqs

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I just installed Tweetiator tracking code here on SocialWayne.com and so far I’m impressed with it. I can see Tweetiator’s value for anyone using Twitter for marketing or measuring links. As discussions of Social Media ROI and how to measure tweets and tweeting Tweetiator’s dashboard can show you who’s tweeting your links, provide you with link analytics and the bonus is that it allows you to follow or direct message the person all for a nice dashboard window.

In a nutshell if you have a Twitter landing page you should be using Tweetiator.

Tweetiator.com is now in private beta but I have a few invites for the readers of SocialWayne.  Just leave a comment along with your email address and if you’re one of the first few, you’re in luck.

If you would like for me to review your product or site email: pitches at socialwayne dot com . Disclaimer: I have no investment or relationship with the creators of this site. Thank you.

Posted on September 4, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: 4 ways to add a retweet button to your WordPress blog

4 ways to add a Retweet button to your WordPress blog.

Tweetcount Plugin from BackType:
http://www.backtype.com/plugins/tweetcount

The TweetMeme retweet button; http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button

ReTweet.com’s Official Retweet Button – http://retweet.com/button

Easy ReTweet WordPress Plugin – http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/easy-retweet

Posted on July 31, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

16 reasons why I’m not quitting the iPhone

So today, famed tech blogger, Michael Arrington @arrington of TechCrunch wrote a blog post called, “I quit the iPhone“. Arrington has a large audience that reads his network of blogs and is very successful and popular in terms of his events that he plans in the technology space. In other words Arrington has power and influencer depending on how you look at it. Either way Arrington and I both bloggers and entitled to our own opinions. I would like to think we have a lot in common but he’s a lot more successful than I am at the moment but lets hope that changes in the near future. Nevertheless this isn’t about Wayne vs Arrington but just my thoughts on why I’m not quitting the iPhone for another mobile device.

Here are my reasons.

1. The iPhone OS is the best mobile operating system in terms of usability, period.
2. I don’t want to carry around two devices. Arrington said he will use a Palm Pre and an iPod Touch.
3. I don’t live in a heavily metropolitan area and AT&T 3G service works great for me. I hardly have a drop call but I do notice a difference when I travel to larger cities such as Atlanta and Austin and the service is not as good with more users on AT&T’s network.
4. Apple’s iPhone app store is better than the upcoming Windows Mobile app store, Blackberry, Nokia and Google’s

Photo via http://www.insidefacebook.com
5. The iPhone has the best applications to access social networks such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook etc. Not to mention the new Facebook iPhone 3.0 app is going to be awesome.

6. The iPhone has best Twitter Apps as a matter fact, the App store has to many Twitter apps.
7. I have access to apps that get kicked out of the app store via the Cyida App store. because my I choose to jailbreak my iPhone.

8. I don’t have to wait for AT&T to allow tethering on my iPhone because I already have it via PdaNet without any additional charges.

9. I like to use my iPhone 3Gs for jogging with NikePlus even though the NikePlus site has way to much flash on it’s site but that’s another blog post rant.
10. I own a MacBook and use MobileMe to sync my bookmarks and files that I can access via my iPhone. Plus Apple just released the iDisk iPhone app
11. I enjoy over-the-air calendar and contact syncing with my iPhone using Google Calendar, iCal, Google Contacts and Address book along with my email.

12. The iPhone has the best apps for mobile blogging.
13. I can use the iPhone with iTunes and the Amazon music store.
14. I can run iPhone apps in the background via the backgrounder app and make Skype phone calls over 3G.

15. I have two choices for an app store, Apple’s app store and the Cyida App store.

16. I can theme my iPhone if I choose to do so via the Winterboard app in Cydia.

Those are just a few of my reasons why I’m not quitting the iPhone. I know some are very tedious and Mr. Arrington did say he would be using an iPod Touch therefore he’s not completely leaving Apple or the App store just the iPhone. Also Arrington did acknowledged that he believes the iPhone is the best mobile phone in the market, quote from the TechCrunch article “I’d move to the Palm Pre because I believe it is the best phone out there other than the iPhone 3GS.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m not completely in love with the iPhone or Apple or AT&T and not happy about the recent decisions to remove existing apps or prevent some apps from seeing the light of day in the app store such as GV Mobile, and Google Latitude native app. Also I’ll be very surprise if GPush or a few other apps will ever see the light of day in app store. I’ve been waiting for Qik and Ustream.TV live video streaming apps to be released and only time will tell if Apple will approve them. If not I hope others follow GV Mobile leads and join the Cydia app store, something both Qik and Ustream have already done.

What are your reasons for sticking with the iPhone or did Arrington post convince you to leave AT&T and switch to another device?

Posted on July 24, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Podcast: TheSocialGeeks: Stop Being Lazy, and Filter

In the latest edition of The Social Geeks, Chris Miller, Louis Gray, Jeff(isageek) and I talk about new introductions on Lazyfeed, Google Reader, and how to interact with multiple communities on differing social networks. We also talked about various tools we use to filter the noise. Reference the How I Filter The Noise, guest blog post on Jason Keath’s site. You can also find the original copy on Mevio.com.

Posted on July 10, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Links from the blogosphere to help you “Get” FriendFeed

If you didn’t know I’m a big fan of FriendFeed. I’m using their widget on my sidebar and have posted about FriendFeed in a few of my previous Friday Fix series. See: Seven FriendFeed Friends to Subscribe to, the ladies edition and Five FriendFeed Friends to Follow, I mean Subscribe to, the guys edition . Although Friendfeed has been around for a while, from time to time I’ll still hear people say they don’t get FriendFeed. If that’s you take a look at the links below.

FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King

Bring FriendFeed To Your Site with Sharing

Eight reasons I love FriendFeed

FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta

Popular iPhone apps for FriendFeed

AmpliFeeder: FriendFeed’s Much Hotter Sister

How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media

How To Find Your Audience On FriendFeed

Instant Updates On Any Topic From Around The Web

7 WAYS FRIENDFEED COULD BETTER ENGAGE THE FLICKR COMMUNITY

About FriendFeed from http://friendfeed.com/about/
FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends

Do you use FriendFeed? If so how?

Posted on June 26, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Social Media brings me home. Thanks to @TyDowning

If you have been following my Brightkite updates and tweets over the past 48 hrs then you know that I was in Wilmington, NC on Thursday for a talk on Social Media. I was asked to do the talk by Ty Downing of SayitSocial, someone who I’ve only known virtually via twitter and now someone who I call a friend. I was excited about doing the talk for a few reasons, one being that Wilmington is kind of like a second home for me as I’m originally from Teachey, NC which is only 30 to 40 minutes away from Wilmington. As a youth I would make the drive down to Wilmington to hang out and as I told Ty that my prom was in Wilmington. Therefore I was humbled and nervous about the presentation as my audince would be a room of savvy SEO experts, bloggers, web designers, marketers and individuals who wanted to learn more about social media.

The meetup was called Social Media Talk With Wayne Sutton and as I kept trying to brainstorm how to cover social media in one hour… you can’t! So what I decided to do was try to facilitate a discussion on social media with the attendees along with a little history lesson of who is Wayne Sutton. You can see the presentation below via slideshare.

The attendees had questions on social media such as: What tools to use monitor their brand, how to get started with social media, what tools they should use to track urls and more. Ty along with Lori Lorusso live streamed the entire talk on Ustream.tv and uploaded a clip of the talk to youtube, both you can see below.

Ustream of my Talk on Social Media in Wilmington, NC
Webcam chat at Ustream

A Youtube video clip from Ty’s iPhone 3GS of my Talk on Social Media

I really want to thank Ty and the attendees for having me and from the comments on the meetup.com site it looks like the attendees enjoyed it.
Kimberly – “ Excellent and very informative. Thank you so much! ”

Holly Powell – “ Wayne was very informative. I enjoyed the meeting and look forward to the next event. ”

Chip Hunnicutt – “ Didn’t hear anything groundbreaking (for me anyway) but questions showed different levels of expertise in the audience and potential for future specialized gatherings. Was particularly intrigued by the “startup” weekend concept. ”

Doug Erickson – “ Wayne was a great speaker and knows his “Social Media”

It looks like to have to work on something “groundbreaking” for my next talk but honest feedback is always welcome. Also a big thanks to the great people at the C. W. Worth House who sponsored my stay on Thursday night. The C. W. Worth House is elegant and a must visit if you’re looking for a bed and breakfast in Wilmington.

PS. This has been a #shamelessplug blog post by Wayne Sutton :)

Posted on June 19, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: 5 online .TV shows to keep an eye on

So l missed last Friday Fix last week and no one noticed… hmm. Anyway this week on Friday Fix is 5 online .TV shows to keep an eye on or should I say to subscribe to.

1. Rock the Job - http://rockthejob.com
About: Rock the Job helps students understand the impact of social media on their careers.

2. Bwana.TV – http://www.bwana.tv
About: Reviews and discussions on gadgets, social media, blogging and technology.

3. This week in Startups - http://thisweekinstartups.com
About: Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health.

4. North Carolina Wine TV – http://northcarolinawine.tv
About: North Carolina Wine TV is an online video show hosted by Jeff Cohen and Kipp Bodnar that is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursdays that is focused on reviewing wines produced in North Carolina.

5. From the Couch – http://www.from-the-couch.com
About: ‘From the Couch’ is an Online Video show, hosted by us brothers Marc and David Perel, which covers everything web orientated. We show you CSS tips, how to create websites from nothing and also chat about news in the web world.

Shameless Plug WayneSutton.TV is still in beta and I hope to have it launched by the end of June.

What are you favorite .TV shows?

Posted on June 6, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Using Charts to explain Social Media via flickr search

To some Social Media is easy to explain and you “get it”; to some if you hear the words “social media” one more time you’re going to explode but for others not only don’t you get it or see why the world is a buzz about social media but you may even need a chart or graph to understand social media, how it works and what sites are social media/networking sites.  If that’s you just do a quick search for social media on flickr and you’ll find a few charts that may help you out.  Here’s three that may be useful to you.

Uploaded on June 9, 2008 - by fredcavazza

Uploaded on June 9, 2008 - by fredcavazza

Uploaded on October 26, 2008 by Gary Hayes

Click on each image to see a larger version.

Posted on May 29, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Seven FriendFeed Friends to Subscribe to, the ladies edition

Last week I posted Friday Fix five guys to follow on FriendFeed and as promised with some help from my FriendFeed buddy Jeffisageek here’s the ladies edition.

Posted on May 22, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Five FriendFeed Friends to Follow, I mean Subscribe to, the guys edition