http://www.jaymccormack.com It's not about you Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:54:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is just a quick video on using the Bookmarks functions in firefox to very rapidly jump to a bookmarked webpage. http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2010/02/16/high-speed-surfing-using-bookmarks-and-keywords-in-firefox/ [caption id="attachment_379" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Courtesy: flickr echo_1123"][/caption] On the tail of my recommendations for desktop twitter clients I thought I'd tell you about my experience with iPhone twitter clients.  I've tried half a dozen or so but in this space I think there is a really clear winner.  Unlike the desktop ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2010/02/10/recommended-twitter-clients-iphone/ [caption id="attachment_364" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Courtesy flickr: novecentino"][/caption] I've tried quite a few different twitter clients - and most of the time I talk about Hootsuite as my client of choice.  It made sense to talk about how I got to this point (and to be honest there are still a few ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2010/02/08/recommended-twitter-clients-desktop/ [caption id="attachment_353" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Sorting (courtesy flickr: CC BY-ND 2.0)"][/caption] Last year Twitter introduced a new feature called 'Lists' that I think a few people are still not sure about.  To be honest - using lists on the twitter website is a bit wasted, the real value of lists is when ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2010/02/07/twitter-lists-why/ [caption id="attachment_347" align="alignright" width="300" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/"][/caption] I feel I've spent the last 12 years of life, my career, trying to help people do things better.  Helping them make better systems, better experiences, better websites.  And I would expect that there are other people like me doing similar things for similar organisations. But still ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2010/01/29/its-2010-and-im-disappointed-by-the-web/ JonoH on twitter recently found that Tweetie 2.1 is not correctly using the Bit.ly API, so some instructions below: You'll need your bit.ly username and API key and then need to grab the URL for the bit.ly API endpoint for link shortenning (below), and then merge it all together... The bit.ly API ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2009/12/06/linkshortening/ Please find below the presentation a gave at the FIA Lunch on 24th November 2009 on Social Networking. Social Networking View more presentations from jaymcc. http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2009/11/24/presentation-fia-lunch-24-nov-2009/ Presentation conducted at Fundraising Institute of Australia's Professional Development Lunch in Adelaide on 12 Nov 2009. http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2009/11/11/online-fundraising/ A few example tweets I found recently that show good use of twitter by non-profit organisations. Starlight shares kids jokes Plan Australia shares news Red Cross become the expert Red Cross getting to the point Plan Australia sharing opinion Cancer research Some example of different styles of tweets: Zappos CEO - Standard Tweet - Quotes that no doubt ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2009/10/17/twitter-post-example/ [caption id="attachment_318" align="alignright" width="300" caption="flickr: cliff1066 (CC BY 2.0)"][/caption] Someone asked me today about building a website, and part of the conversation revolved around why the site needed to exist.  The answer was a few things but part of the answer was "it looks good on a resume". This made me think... ... http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2009/10/02/definition-success/