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Another handy tool I’ve found that you might find useful: Highrise. With all the people I’ve been chatting with about social enterprise, I needed some way to keep track of them: who they are, who they work with, and what we talked about so I won’t forget next time we speak.

If you’re like me, you forget people’s names all the time, struggling to remember when you talked to them and what on earth you said. No more excuses because I’m going to introduce you to a free tool that’ll help … Continue reading »

Thanks to my friend Tallskinnykiwi, I’ve discovered the Flock browser, which makes managing all the Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, blogs, and RSS feeds I have accounts for much easier.

The Flock browser is based on Firefox, so if you use that you should find it particularly easy to switch. I use Safari, but I think those days might be over.

Flock corrals all the different social networks and trendy websites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Flickr into one browser for … Continue reading »

Good design helps you be more creative. It can even make work more enjoyable. Something as humble as the dry erase marker, done well, can be something that inspires you.

Tul Dry Erase Markers: the Pros

Take these markers. Thanks to their lovely and creative design, I’ll want to use them. They’ll entice me into actually writing down that To Do list and enjoy crossing items off jsut so I can erase it and write something new … Continue reading »

I’ve been having great fun this week checking out how websites are using short video clips to show people how to do something. I’ll be doing video for the next website Do Good Design is redesigning, Five Senses, and there are a number of benefits to your website if you do it well.

First off, what’s a good educational video clip like? Check out a UK-based website called Video Jug that gives your professionally produced, easy to understand videos on anything … Continue reading »

What pages on your website are most popular? What countries do your visitors come from?

You can find out all of this and more with website traffic tracking software, also known as “analytics”.

The software I use and recommend is Google Analytics, which is free and pretty easy to use.

By knowing more about what is happening on your website, you’ll find out how valuable it is and what you can do to make it work a … Continue reading »