Monthly Archives: January 2011

What’s wrong with this picture?

By Lee Aase | Published: January 7, 2011
Meet Gump Worsely, who played goalie in the National Hockey League. Gump was famous for playing without a mask and helmet long after almost everyone else in pro hockey had adopted this protection. Slap shots would fly at his face at speeds often exceeding 100 miles per hour, but as Wikipedia says (so we know [...]
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Web Video 105: Why you should always use a tripod with a Flip

By Lee Aase | Published: January 5, 2011
SMUG doesn’t have a formal curriculum in Web video (come to think of it, none of our curriculum is really formal in the accreditation sense.) I guess what I should say is SMUG doesn’t have a curriculum series in Web video. That may change, but for now here is the first post in what might [...]
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Twitter 310: Custom URL Shortening Case Study

By Lee Aase | Published: January 4, 2011
So you want to get a custom-shortened URL for your Tweets. How do you do it? This post builds upon Twitter 210, and provides the answer. By watching the video below and following along with the slide presentation, you will see step-by-step how I created the leeaase.me custom short domain, and how you can do [...]
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Twitter 210: Vanity URL Shortening

By Lee Aase | Published: January 3, 2011
In Social Media 110, I highlighted 7 services for shrinking URLs as a way to pack more information into the 140 characters Twitter allows. After all, if you can compress a 90-character URL into 20 characters or fewer when sharing a link, that leaves you more space to provide information on what people will see [...]
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Still think Facebook is a Fad?

By Lee Aase | Published: January 1, 2011
If you are dealing with skeptics questioning whether social networking is worthwhile for your organization, maybe this post (and the Washington Post article that inspired it) will help you make your case. From yesterday’s Washington Post: In 2010, Facebook pushed past Google to become the most popular site on the Internet for the first time, according [...]
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