March 2010
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LinkedIn Phishing Scam Warning; How to Spot...
Last night, I got an e-mail from someone purporting to be from LinkedIn informing me that they needed to confirm and validate my account. This is clearly a phishing attempt, so if you get a similar e-mail, do not click on the link in the e-mail. Instead, forward the e-mail to phishing-report@us-cert.gov.
Remember when it was easy to spot SPAM or Phishing attempts? English was clearly not the...
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20 Easy Steps to Add Google Analytics to Your...
Earlier this week, I saw a Tweet about adding Google Analytics (GA) to a Facebook (FB) fan page, so naturally I checked it out. The blog post came from a London-based Web development company called WebDigi, so kudos to them for sharing this with the rest of the world. The only problem I found with the blog post is that their instructions aren’t very clear, as evidenced by the...
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20 Easy Steps to Add Google Analytics to Your... →
Earlier this week, I saw a Tweet about adding Google Analytics (GA) to a Facebook (FB) fan page, so naturally I checked it out. The blog post came from a London-based Web development company called WebDigi, so kudos to them for sharing this with the rest of the world. Read more…
February 2010
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The Importance of Creating a 'Dark Site'
If your Web site crashed, or went down for any significant length of time, are you prepared with a remotely hosted back-up site, or what we call a “dark site?” If you are, congratulations! You can stop reading this post and go about your day. If you do not have a dark site, keep reading…
A dark site is a fully functional, branded site or blog that remains “hidden” on...
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Anti Social Media Behavior
cwimedia:
I’ve gone dark. I’m off the grid. I’ve become a ghost. Well, sort of. I am speaking, of course, about social media and the ever-increasing privacy concerns that come with posting information about your life online.
It started some time ago with Facebook and MySpace. My profiles were at one time public and anyone could see them. After getting a ridiculous number of unsolicited “friend”...
December 2009
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Don't abuse your personal social media brand
We all know one. A person on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn who abuses their status as your social media “friend” by inviting you to join Facebook fan pages every other day, sending out 500 Tweets before lunch, or even worse, sharing links to get-rich-quick schemes.
There are a couple of folks that I know in real life (IRL) and am also “friends” with on Facebook and/or Twitter. But lately, they’ve...
November 2009
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Choosing a Lavalier Microphone (lav mic)
I recently gave a presentation on video production at the College Communicators Association’s fall 2009 conference, held at the College of William & Mary. Most of the folks who attended were either just getting started with video production, or were already producing videos, but with no real backgrounds in video production, were looking to enhance their skills.
While we primarily...
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Random "I'm up way too early" Thoughts
So, an old friend reaches out to me via Facebook last year and was all excited to get back in touch. They said it had been too long and that they didn’t want to lose touch again. Yet, they never respond to any attempt at communication. Was one of my off-the-wall, politically incorrect comments? Or, maybe it’s time to prune the “friend” list again. Since I cut about 100...
October 2009
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Breast cancer research gets personal for some... →
Albert and I covered this story yesterday along with WDBJ, the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia. University Media relations sent out a press release about the event, which featured breast cancer survivors meeting with and speaking to Virginia Tech student scientists and researchers, who are working toward a cure.
We will have a written story and our own video posted next Monday, but until then,...
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