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Twitter Announces New Tool to Embed Tweets

Posted By: Jared Cook

I want to share this Mashable.com article written by Adam Ostrow about how to embed a tweet.

HOW TO: Embed a Tweet

As expected, Twitter has rolled out a new tool that lets you embed a tweet on a website. The feature –- which we confirmed was on its way on Monday –- replaces the need to take a screenshot and crop tweets, like we often do in blog posts when we want to quote someone via Twitter.

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Using “Blackbird pie,” you can create an embeddable tweet by first entering the URL for the chosen message in the form that Twitter has created (that URL can be found using the timestamp on a tweet – i.e. –- where it says “3 hours ago”).

From there, click “Bake It,” and Blackbird will generate the code needed to embed the tweet on your website. Twitter notes when “you paste it into your site, the tweet will pick up some of your styling, e.g. the font-family you use on your p tags. That’s intentional!” Here’s what the end result looks like:

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WordPress Founder Talks About the Platform’s Future [Video]

Posted by: DeAnn Farha

I want to share an article written by Julie O’Dell from Mashable.com about Matt Mullenwegm, founder of blogging software WordPress. The nonprofit WordPress Foundation plans to compete with Tumblr by offering free services such as PollDaddy, Akisment and buddyPress since the collapse of Ning.

WordPress WordPress Founder Talks About the Platforms Future [Video]

WordPress Founder Talks About the Platform’s Future [VIDEO]

At WordCamp SF yesterday, we got to talk to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. He’s the man behind the Automattic empire, a collection of blogging software and complementary services, such as PollDaddy and the spam filtration system Akisment.

Mullenweg chatted with us about the demise of Ning and how buddyPress, his solution for communities, can help those folks who are left wondering about free alternatives. He also talked about how WordPress (WordPress) plans to compete with Tumblr (Tumblr), the status of the nonprofit WordPress Foundation, acquisition plans in 2010, WordPress’ focus on themes and even his favorite non-WordPress blogs.

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LinkedIn Gives Users the Ability to Follow Companies

Posted by: Maya Tao

I would like to share an article by Ben Parr from mashable.com regarding the new following feature of LinkedIn. Users now can get automatic promotional and hiring updates from companies they follow, and they can also set up the frequencies as well as the types of information they would like to receive. Companies are expected to take the advantage of LinkedIn follow button to promote their profiles and seeking potential employees.

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LinkedIn Gives Users the Ability to Follow Companies

LinkedIn has made it easier for users to connect with their favorites companies with the launch of “Follow Company,” a new feature that allows users to get notifications about activity happening from the companies they follow.

The new feature, which rolled out overnight, clearly takes cues from Facebook and Twitter — you can think of Follow Company as LinkedIn’s version of the Facebook Fan Page. However, instead of receiving status updates from the companies you follow, you will instead get information such as recent hires and promotions, new job opportunities and company profile updates.

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AP Stylebook Finally Changes “website to website”

Posted by:Maya Tao

I would like to share an article written by Adam Ostrow from mashable.com regarding AP Stylebook recent modifications, such as changing “website” to “website,” and “e-mail” to “email.” Check out the new online version Here: AP Stylebook

AP Stylebook Finally Changes “website” to “website”

This might not mean much if you’re not writing or editing a tech blog, but news that the AP – whose stylebook is still the standard for all things grammar and punctuation in the news world — is officially changing “website” to “website” was met with a warm reception in our newsroom (and likely quite a few others) this afternoon.

We’d actually gone rogue on the issue ourselves several months ago, thinking that “website” was a rather antiquated way for describing “a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web.”

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Jennings Social Media Marketing Announces partnership with local technology companies

Posted by: Maya Tao

I would like to share an article written by David Twiddy featuring KC Next as the leading technology community. Jennings Social Media Marketing is one of the founding partners of KC Next, which is committed to supporting the technology industry in the greater Kansas City Region.When KC Next had its social networking event on April 1, 2010, it only had one clear goal: to help build the local industry.

Tech Firms Hope KC Next Expands, Connects Industry

Building on recent efforts to showcase Kansas City’s bioscience and animal health industries, a group of business leaders is rolling out a program to spotlight the area’s information technology community.

KC Next had its debut at an April 1 networking event for the tech sector. Organizers plan similar events in coming months with no set goals or timetables other than to build up the local industry.

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Twitter Launches @Anywhere Platform

By: Jared Cook

I would like to share an interesting article by Jennifer Van Grove, Associate Editor for Mashable.com, about Twitter’s newly launched @Anywhere Platform.

Twitter’s @Anywhere Platform Is Now Live


@anywhere Twitter Launches @Anywhere Platform

@Anywhere supports auto-linkification of usernames, hovercards (similar to ones we see on Twitter.com), follow buttons, tweet boxes and user login/signup options (a.k.a. Twitter Connect). All of these tools are meant to keep visitors Twitter-happy while on third party sites.

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New Google Twitter App Helps Users Find People To Follow

Posted By: Jared Cook

I would like to share a recent article written by Jennifer Van Grove, Associate Editor for Mashable.com, about Google’s newest Twitter application, Google Follow Finder. This brand new app makes it easier for users to find others they might like to follow.

Google Helps You Find People to Follow on Twitter

If you’ve already had your fill of Twitter news today — too bad — Google is out with yet another Twitter-related feature, this time releasing Google Follow Finder to help you discover new people to follow.

The new Google Twitter app is a product of the just released @anywhere developer tools and is a Google Labs (Google Labs) experiment with a singular purpose — to recommend Twitter users.

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Twitter’s COO and CEO Speak About Twitter’s Future And How It Will Make Money

Posted By: Jared Cook

I want to share a unique story written by Ben Parr, Co-Editor of Mashable.com, about the Chirp Conference in San Francisco where Twitter’s CEO and COO announced how Twitter plans to generate income.

Twitter COO: “Promoted Tweets Are Not Ads”

Twitter CEO Evan Williams and Twitter COO Dick Costolo have once again taken the stage at the Chirp Conference in San Francisco to speak about one of the biggest questions plaguing investors and pundits: How will Twitter make money?

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Valerie Jennings interviewed by Viveka Von Rosen from Linked Into Business about social media marketing

Posted By: Jared Cook

Thank you Viveka for interviewing Valerie. She really enjoyed speaking with you and we wish you the best of success for your e-book.

podcast3 Valerie Jennings interviewed by Viveka Von Rosen from Linked Into Business about social media marketing

 

Jennings Social Media Marketing features Entrepreneur Andy Willoughby

Posted by: Maya Tao

Jennings Social Media Marketing wanted to do something a little different for our April 2010 research and analysis e-newsletter. Valerie Jennings, CEO of Jennings Social Media Marketing, interviewed Entrepreneur Andy Willoughby, owner of the 3 Step Plan home business system.

Willoughby is a friend and client of Jennings, so she felt comfortable featuring Willoughby because of his insights regarding building home businesses and addressing the need to live debt free. In the interview, Willoughby discusses what it takes to achieve financial success even in times of a recession, how to build a business, where to begin and why being an entrepreneur is the best financial route to success and freedom.

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