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Comment on 5 Tips for Crafting a Good Social Media Policy by Getting to Yes | John McCrory

Getting to Yes | John McCrory — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:11:20 +0000

[...] Develop a social media policy. Balance legal requirements with the opportunity you have to educate your employees how to do social media well. [...]

Comment on How to create a link that will autofill someone’s Twitter status by John McCrory

John McCrory — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:37:56 +0000

Sorry, Vlad. I am not sure why url encoding a + as %2B is not working for you. It ought to. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding for info

Comment on How to create a link that will autofill someone’s Twitter status by VladDulea

VladDulea — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:54:17 +0000

actually is not working with %2B for plus… do you happen to know how to fix this?

Comment on How to create a link that will autofill someone’s Twitter status by VladDulea

VladDulea — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:51:52 +0000

and you can use %2B for plus
usefull when you want to send links with spaces

Comment on How to create a link that will autofill someone’s Twitter status by VladDulea

VladDulea — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:08:51 +0000

thanks.. very usefull… i looked around for a solution for placing a hashtag in link to status

Comment on 52 Weeks of Soup: Week 2 – Chicken Soup with Rice by Spanky

Spanky — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:01:44 +0000

So dude, we are in February and no more recipes? I guess you are in the soup!

Mmmmm…. donuts.

Comment on “My customers don’t use social media” by “My customers don’t use social media” | DUKKY - Our target is 100% redemption.

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:16:50 +0000

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Comment on Twitter at conferences is here to stay by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:25:17 +0000

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Comment on How wide should my home page be? Revisiting screen and viewport size by Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:47:16 +0000

The data is exclusively based on viewport information. As you also found, the screen resolution data is widely available but highly misleading. The tool has a limitation in that it doesn't take account of page reflow as you change the width. I'd argue that the scrolling makes a very big difference. As I mentioned in the Google Blog article, we got a 10% increase in Google Earth installs by raising the button 100 pixels. All of those people could have scrolled to see the button but the fact that they didn't is why this tool can be so valuable. Email me directly – probably easier than talking here.

Comment on Twitter at conferences is here to stay by johnmccrory

johnmccrory — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:34:53 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Julius. I think you are right that the backchannel can get messy. It may be that Twitter is not the best tool for it. I know some folks have liked using Meebo for live chats at conference sessions. Or perhaps Twitter itself and various Twitter tools will develop features that improve the backchannel experience. I think Tweetchat http://tweetchat.com/ may offer some of the features you are looking for. Have you tried that? I really like your idea of being able to "mute" selected participants in the backchannel, too.

Your point also suggests that the conference organizers themselves have to step up and take more of a role in managing the backchannel, setting the tone and reminding participants to tweet with decorum. In some cases, it may be desirable to encourage a designated a trusted, live-tweeter to give the blow-by-blow to ensure it is done well and avoid a cacaphony of live tweeters.

Thanks again for adding your perspective!