My birthday is the 5th day of some month. So I was surprised and took notice when LinkedIn included in an announcement email to congratulate me on my birthday this month. I didn’t remember giving them my birthday, but I’ve had the account so long I thought maybe I gave it as account verification information. I presumed it was the usual headache that can arise out of the fact that the US represents dates as month/day and the UK/CAN represents dates as day/month.
Rich Snippets – is your site utilizing this feature of SEO best practices?
Rich Snippets are Search Engine Results that present highlighted information about the site in a format that is reflective of the type of site it is. As examples, a search result for a product site would include the product price and brand, an event result would include dates and ticket prices, and an about page result might contain addresses and contact information. We’ve all seen these lately when we’ve been searching on Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Do you use the Twitter List feature?
Lists generate their own separate timeline of the Tweets of the people on the list. Lists can be set as private or public. You can subscribe to other users’ public lists. Members on your lists can be both accounts that your follow or not. A list has its own URL that can be referenced as a link elsewhere. You can use a Twitter list in an embedded Tweet widget on your website.
MailChimp for Salesforce – Generate Leads from subscriptions to your newsletters
MailChimp for Salesforce is an App created by MailChimp and available for free in the Salesforce.com AppExchange. I recently installed the App in my Salesforce account in order to sync subscribers of our weekly into Salesforce Leads and contacts. I’ve been so impressed with this integration that I decided to focus this week’s blog post […]
Bring Your Own Cloud – The challenge for IT to publically manage private data
With Bring your Own Device (BYOD) now common place in most Enterprise IT environments, the use of the Personal Cloud is being used as a solution to how users manage and share data across multiple personal devices. This new trend is aptly referred to as Bring your Own Cloud (BYOC). The management of which is a concern to security conscious corporate CIOs.
Authorize subscriber Social networks in your online site or app
An important though optional feature for your website or mobile app is providing your users a method to authenticate using social networks and/or to authorize you to have access to their information or social features. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and others offer methods, often using an open protocol such as OAuth , for developers to implement user authorized access to their platform. There are a number of advantages for providing this, as well as a few things to consider.
