Back in the day, if you “liked” a Facebook page, all the posts by that page made their way into your news feed. As did all posts by the people you were friends with on Facebook. Ah, but those were the pre-IPO days of Facebook. Now that Facebook’s stock generally hovers about $10-$20 below the […]
Blogging on Squarespace 6–Not for the Faint of Heart
While I love the look of my new website, I have to say that I’m sorely missing the any-idiot-can-use-it functionality of Google Blogger for blogging. Also, sort of kicking myself for lack of forethought about what kind of functionality I need from a website, as a person who really only needs a blogging platform. But […]
Three Movie Apps I’m Loving
If you read this blog or know me, you know I’m obsessed with going to the movies. What with it being the weekend and all, I figured I’d blog about a few cool movie-related apps I’ve recently started using. Huge hat tip to Sandra Giarde for telling me about RunPee. RunPee tells you the best […]
New Look, New Site
So for a while now (read: years) I’ve been thinking how crappy my blog looked and how I really needed to get off Blogger, but I just never wanted to take the time to actually create something better. Blogger was just so easy, with the widgets and the templates and these days I barely have […]
My Experience With Facebook Ads. And, Shocker, it Wasn’t Good.
We all know by now that I am no fan of Facebook. Privacy “glitches,” constant changes, total lack of regard for what users want, no accountability to anyone….those are just a few of the reasons I hate Facebook. Of course I realize I’m a total hypocrite because despite these fails, I continue to use the […]
Is Feedburner Really Shutting Down?
If you’re reading this post via email subscription it most likely looks different that posts used to look. That’s because I’ve switched subscription services from Google Feedburner to Feedblitz, due, in part to freaking out over last week’s frenzy of speculation that Feedburner is shutting down after a glitch showed all follower counts to be at […]
No Images to Pin? No Problem!
(I wrote this for the Socialfish blog, but reposting here) While Pinterest is a natural fit for brands whose websites contain a lot of images–like retail, fashion, food, bridal, etc–associations for the most part probably don’t fit that bill. Most association websites are almost exclusively text, and many are none too pretty either…sorry, but, truth. […]
What Verizon Doesn’t Want You to Know About Their Internet Service
So you know from my last post about the troubles I’ve been having with Verizon internet for months. For months, I have dealt with the internet in my house dropping throughout each day. Inconvenient and not ok since I work from home part of the time. My husband and I have spent hours and hours […]
Why “Social Media Centers of Excellence” Are Not Excellent for Customers
I have Verizon internet (and TV, and phone) at home. For the past six months or more, we’ve been having issues with the internet dropping…but only intermittently. Every day, for part of the day, it works–but every day, for parts of the day, it doesn’t. Annoying, especially when you’re trying to work and your kids […]
Facebook Ignores User Settings AGAIN and Opts Everyone Back into Group Email Notifications
Have you spent all weekend wondering why your email inbox was full of notifications from Facebook groups? Notifications you swear you had previously turned off, but now seem to have been re-activated? Well, you’re not alone, and you’re not imagining things–Facebook did indeed just do one of their famous “we let you control your experience […]