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Create a Free Mobile Website with Winksite and Keep All The Revenue Too

Posted in Business, News & Notes, Reviews, mobile, tagged , , , on Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you’re in the market for a quick and easy mobile website, Winksite is worth a look. A free account allows you to create up to 5 different mobile sites, which can each be customized from Winksite’s library of functionality (which they call channels).  Creating a site is as easy as giving it a name [...]

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Viddler for Full Control Over Online Video

Posted in Business, Reviews on Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009 | Comments Off

There are a lot of free video services out there (although many don’t allow videos for commerical purposes if you read their TOS), but sometimes a business needs a very professional video solution with full control over the branding, content and advertising.
Viddler is an inexpensive way to create  professional video content and advertising.   Online [...]

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Need Quick Mobile Site? With Unity Mobile, Be Up in Ten Minutes

Posted in Business, Reviews, mobile, tagged , , on Monday, May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I played around with setting up a Unity Mobile site last week for a review I wrote over at New Media Hub.  While the article is geared towards media publishers, I think it has some good info for anyone interested in creating a mobile website.  And as the title of this article says, I was [...]

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EchoSign – Get Contracts Signed – Electronic Signatures Made Easy

Posted in Business, Reviews, tagged , on Thursday, May 14, 2009 | Comments Off

Getting a contract signed by a customer is a must for many companies before they can get started on a project or ship a product.  Or maybe you use outside contractors and need to put an agreement in place before they can start work.
The contract signing process can be long and drawn out and often [...]

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Tr.im – Twitter Stats You Need

Posted in Business, News & Notes, Reviews, Social Networks, tagged , , , , , , on Monday, Apr 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

In my effort to find or create the perfect Twitter utility, I’ve been experimenting with various url shorteners to see what kind of statistics they can give me.  Today I started playing with Tr.im and, so far, I’m pretty happy with the results.  One of my requirements is that it work with Twitterfeed, which I [...]

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All Your Tweet Belong To Us

Posted in Business, News & Notes, Reviews, Social Networks, tagged , , , , , , on Tuesday, Apr 7, 2009 | Comments Off

All Your Tweet is a free service (currently in beta) that aims to aggregate various Twitter services into one place.  Fairly basic functions such as follow, unfollow are offered, along with basic analytics (followers, friends, favorites, status updates) for multiple accounts.  A web-based twitter client integrates all accounts into one dashboard, with URL shortening and [...]

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SocialToo – Automate Twitter Following & Unfollowing, Send Surveys

Posted in Business, News & Notes, Reviews, Social Networks, tagged , , , , , on Wednesday, Apr 1, 2009 | Comments Off

If you’re of the mind to follow everyone who follows you on Twitter, SocialToo can save you time and effort by automatically following anyone who follows you.  You also have choices on how and whether you unfollow anyone who unfollows you.  There are also options to block automatic DMs (direct messages) from other services and [...]

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Connect With Nearby Customers with Nearby Tweets

Posted in Business, News & Notes, Reviews, Social Networks, tagged , , , , , , on Monday, Mar 16, 2009 | Comments Off

Ever want to connect with people nearby that may be potential customers (or actual customers)? What about running promotions or events by using Twitter? Nearby Tweets give you a list of both nearby people on Twitter and what they’re saying.  You can easily change the location and search radius if you’re interested in what’s going [...]

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TwitterCounter – Stats for Your Tweets

Posted in Analytics, Business, News & Notes, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on Friday, Mar 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Ever wish you could get stats on your Twitter feed like you can with Google Analytics for your website and RSS feed? TwitterCounter shows you your number of followers by day for the previous week, month or 3 months, including average growth and future growth estimations.  By installing their TwitterRemote widget on your blog or [...]

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Twitter Tip – Automate Tweets with Twitterfeed

Posted in Content, Reviews, Social Networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , on Thursday, Mar 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The point of Twitter is to have a conversation, but it also nice to send out useful information to your followers – perhaps links of interest or a link when you post to your blog. Twitterfeed allows you to use RSS feeds to automatically send links to your Twitter account.  Just add the RSS feed [...]

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Moving to WordPress.com – What to Consider

Posted in Business, Content, News & Notes, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on Monday, Jan 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Over the break we moved Sazbean.com and some of our other blogs over to WordPress.com from self-hosting WordPress on our own server.  Most of the process was relatively easy and overall we’re pleased with the results.  We made the decision to move for a few reasons: saving time and effort from updates and support, saving [...]

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TwitScoop for News & Business Intelligence

Posted in Business, News & Notes, Reviews, Social Networks, tagged , , , , , , on Monday, Dec 1, 2008 | Comments Off

Want to know what’s hot on Twitter right now?  TwitScoop gives you a quick snapshot of the top words in a tag cloud that updates every 20 seconds.  Hover over any of the words to get a view of the last 5 tweets with that word highlighted.  Click on a word to get a graph [...]

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