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Crowdbooster social media analytics [Things I Love]

27 Feb

Crowdbooster tells me – at a glance – which of my Tweets and Facebook page posts are getting engagement and which are not.

Watermark app protects your iPhone photos

4 Jan

A photojournalist tired of seeing people steal his work has created a watermark app for the iPhone. The app, called Marksta, can be downloaded from the App Store (currently for free). As our social media habits become more and more mobile, the app is a great way to protect your photos on those sites. Or [...]

Responsive WordPress themes for magazines and newspapers

12 Dec

Mashable has declared 2013 the year of responsive web design. If you are redesigning your publication’s website using WordPress, I highly recommend you look for a responsive WordPress theme.

How to add your Pinterest feed to a WordPress page

19 Nov

There are a lot of plugins out there to add a Pinterest feed as a widget on your WordPress website. But a student of mine was looking to add her Pinterest feed to a WordPress page, and we could not find a plugin to do this. Until we finally found Ultimate Photo Widget. This plugin [...]

30+ best WordPress plugins

25 Oct

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. They can help you track visitors. They can allow readers to rate your posts. They can protect you from spam. They can allow visitors to easily like your content on Facebook. They can help you create photo galleries. And there are thousands of them. Find [...]

World Series logos…

24 Oct

Need a San Francisco Giants logo or a Detroit Tigers logo for your World Series coverage? I’ve got you covered. Here are all of my Major League Baseball logos.

Top MLB teams on Google+

10 May

Baseball season has been in full swing for more than a month, so this seemed like a good time to check in and see which teams have been doing the best job growing a following of fans on Google+.

Gadget: Brinno time-lapse camera

7 Sep

I’m a sucker for a good gadget, and my latest find is the Brinno GardenWatchCam. This camera takes individual jpg images at set intervals and puts them together into time-lapse videos.

Track your Facebook and Twitter followers together

20 Dec

If your job includes tracking Facebook and Twitter followers – your own or your competition – then you should try out a new service from Wildfire. Wildfire’s Monitor lets you track up to 10 Facebook pages and 10 Twitter accounts on one page.

39 ways newspapers can use QR codes

13 Dec

QR codes were big in 2010. And with the number of smartphone users continuing to grow, there’s every reason to believe they will be even bigger in 2011. A QR code looks a lot like a barcode. Users scan the code using their smartphone camera, and it in turn redirects them to a web page [...]