Transform your career – learn Google Analytics and become a “Creative Data Scientist” David LaFontaine has created a new series of videos for Pluralsight, aimed at teaching creative professionals to learn Google Analytics, and get over their fear of the spreadsheets, numbers, charts and graphs in web analytics. These are some of the topics covered […]
Read MoreFollow the cursor JavaScript sample
Here’s a simple piece of code that you can copy and paste if you want to set up an effect where an object follows the cursor around your web page: <head><style>#divtoshow {position:absolute;display:none;color:white;background-color:black}#onme {width:150px;height:80px;background-color:yellow;cursor:pointer}</style><scripttype=”text/javascript”>var divName =’divtoshow’;// div that is to follow the mouse (must be position:absolute)var offX =15;// X offset from mouse positionvar offY =15;// Y […]
Read MorePart Four: Tools that let amateurs look like professionals
This is the final installment of our epic coverage of social media tools, what they’re good for, and how you might want to use them. In this list, we will be taking a look at tools that you can use to help improve the quality and professionalism of your posts, as well as some tools […]
Read More about.me, addthis, agorapulse, bazaarvoice, bit.ly, rebelmouse, shareby, social media tools, tinyurl, twubs, twylahPart Three: Influence, Klout and finding what’s hot
Tools for Measuring Influence and “Klout” “I know that half my marketing budget is wasted. I just don’t know which half.” As social media marketing has moved from a vague experiment to something that businesses and organizations take seriously, it’s become necessary to track down what are now being called “influencers” (and who used to […]
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In Part 1 of this series, we took a look at tools that manage multiple social media accounts. Part 2 was about analytics that dive deep into the social streams and emerge with data that helps you understand what’s happening. These were top-level tools; this post is going to get a lot more granular, taking […]
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