The wibiya web toolbar

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The wibiya web toolbar should be showing at the bottom of this blog. You can add information to it, delete what you don’t want and use it to see your stats. Of course you need to alter the settings to suit your blog or web site. I think it’s great because you can use it and your visitors can use it to easily add a post to Facebook, Twitter or Digg, for example.

It also makes your site look pretty cool and professional. it is a growing application with more and more people using it. Features are added frequently.

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Prezi – a visual web based presentation tool

Prezi is a web-based presentation tool with so much more to offer than Microsoft Power Point.
It has built-in design tools allowing the effects of time, space and movement.
It is free if you only use 100 megabytes of storage space. These become public and have a watermark on them.

You can pay to have the watermark removed and the presentations will be private and you get 500 megabytes of storage space.
The next level of payment allows you to download to your desktop and have 2 megabytes of storage space.

What are they useful for?

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How to embed your facebook and twitter icons into a blog

I’ve added a Follow me widget to my wordpress blog. First I saved an image of an F and a T. I then used this code to put into a text widget.

<a href=”http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=781704128″><img src=”images/facebook.png” border=”0″></a>
<a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/ozwebhub”><img src=”images/twitter.png” width=”60″ height=”60″ border=”0″></a>

You can see that I have not used WP media to add the image but this URL instead  www.ozwebhub.com/images

You will obviously have to change the code to suit you.

You can try uploading the image to your WP but I found that more difficult to do. You may be able to upload to the images folder of your themes images, but I haven’t tried that.

Fell free to Save the images I have on the right for your blog.

Next I’m going to try to add a Like button for Facebook for under the posts. Some of the related posts below may assist you in this too.

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Bukisa

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Bukisa is a bit like Squidoo.

It is a convenient, one-stop community where members can find information and educational content. Content includes articles, videos, presentations, audio recordings and image slideshows. In addition, members are paid ongoing royalties for their shared knowledge contributions.

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Great twitter app

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JustUnfollow is a simple twitter app site for unfollowing users not following you. Simply sign into your twitter account and once authorized you can selectively choose those users you want to unfollow.

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Free image hosting sites

You can use these sites to find appropriate photos for your blogs or Squidoo. You can also upload photos to them as a way of storing them off your computer or sharing them with friends.

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Squidoo

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I joined Squidoo in its early stages and didn’t really follow it up, but a friend of mine has written many lens (web pages) for squidoo and makes quite bit of money. There are many new features.

The idea is to write about a topic and you share the revenues from Amazon and Google clicks with Squidoo.  I don’t know about you, but my Google clicks are not producing much money at all any more. You can also use text linked ads provided by Squidoo.

I recently wrote about a trip I took to Castlemaine and a review of the DVD  ‘Lilies’ .

You need to write quite a few lens to get your ranking up. There is provision to share on Twitter and Facebook and Squidoo takes care of your Google ranking too.

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Customer service and help desk for web designers

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SmarterTrack 4.x is a powerful help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Businesses can manage employees and company communications at distributed locations around the world from a Web browser—increasing the efficiency of virtual offices, mobile agents, and companies with multiple locations. Features include:

* A world-class Ticket solution that transforms service, sales, and support emails into a powerful information distribution system
* Live Chat, which gives businesses the ability to reduce phone calls, capture information on website visitors, and assist more customers
* WhosOn, which gives businesses real-time tracking of customers as they navigate websites, providing the opportunity to increase sales, expedite customer service, and gather information on site visitors
* A portal interface that is optimized for search engines and functions as the central hub for all communication channels
* Self-service resources, such as a Knowledge Base and news items, that allow customers to research and resolve questions and issues
* A Web-based interface that provides accessibility wherever an Internet connection is available
* An integrated survey system that can be triggered upon events
* More than 70 summary and trend reports with many levels of customization and filtering
* Support for multiple brands within a company

And, there is a free version (without as many features, obviously)

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Twitter: you can be banned

An acquaintance of mine signed in (or attempted) to his Twitter account, only to find out it didn’t exist anymore. When he wrote to Twitter regarding this, their reply from support noted several reasons this could happen:
1. you’ve followed a large number of people in a short amount of time
2. there is a small number of followers compared to number of people you’re following
3. the updates consist mainly of links and not personal updates
4. a large number of users blocking the profile and writing in with spam complaints

Now, I don’t know the details, so I don’t know why this particular case happened, but it seems the first three could apply to over half of the people I follow.

What do you do when you first join Twitter? You add all your friends then go around following people that look interesting or fun. So most of us are guilty of #1 already in our first days of being a Twitter user.

Again with #2, if you are new or not particularly well known, for quite a while the people you follow is going to be a far higher number than those that follow you.

I can fully understand the #3 and #4. Most people want to see human conversation at least a good percentage of the time rather than 100% spam or links, but they do not seem to be clamping down on the links so much.

For me #4 must be the overriding factor. If you do all the above but get zero complaints, I suggest you should be fine. After all, if you don’t like someone, stop following them, right?

It seems that the safest way to make sure no ‘red flags’ are raised is to grow your Twitter account organically and make sure you mix chatty updates in with your links.

You don’t want to put lots of effort into your Twitter account only to find it doesn’t work any more!

Tip offered by Susan Gilbert, AME’s Search Engine Marketing Expert and Web 2.0 company owner, http://www.JoomlaJump.com , which provides Social Networking websites and services.

Piclens will now download videos to watch in full screen

PicLens firefox add on, which I have downloaded, instantly transforms my browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. The new interactive “3D Wall” and built-in search function lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience.

I also attempted to add the piclens plugin for wordpress but failed. I know why now. My host blocks external RSS sites unless I ask for the ones I want to be whitelisted.

Now Piclens will allow you to download videos and watch them on a full screen.

This video will explain it all a lot better than I can sum up.