Make Twitter update by itself

When you know about automation and the Internet, things become much easier. Twitterfeed allows Twitter users to post messages automatically from RSS feeds. I’ve been speaking to a few classmates about this so I thought I’d put up a quick ‘how to’ of sorts.
First, to use Twitterfeed you need an OpenID. If [...]

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Move the web cam

I just finished working with a classmate on a communication assignment and I have to say, it was a lot of fun. We spent a few hours working with each other on Google Documents and a Skype video call and it was a total success. It was real-time remote document editing and face-to-face communication… [...]

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Building a super forum: Director’s Cut + Extra Footage

So, here is the ‘Director’s Cut’ of how to build a super forum. For those who pay attention to titles you realize I’m missing Episodes 1, 2 and 3, but be assured that will be corrected in the future. Like any good Director in the special features on a DVD it’s time to [...]

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Is something other than Twitter inevitable?

I hate Internet outages about as much as power outages without a deck of cards, but even worse is when that one Internet service you rely on is unavailable. You can check the scores at TSN and you can get the weather, but Twitter is down… again.
I haven’t been on Twitter for nearly as [...]

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Building a super forum: Episode 6

Public Relations professionals concern themselves with two specific things among others: their reputation and their client’s. The Internet can be an influential place that can sway public opinion quickly and sometimes it doesn’t matter who starts the trouble.
We’ve all done it before – we’ve “googled” ourselves (I’m probably not the only one who hates [...]

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Building a super forum: Episode 4

Bookmarks were great for everyone until the inevitable happened; the price of computers went down, every student got a laptop and before you knew it your day consisted of working on one, two and maybe even three computers. It’s a real hardship for tech junkies, I know.
I looked around a while for solutions to [...]

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Are you satisfied?

Getsatisfaction is a community based website that is based on representatives of companies and consumers coming together in a constructive Internet space to share ideas and problems. It seems limited in company participation at this time, but has the potential to be quite powerful to give consumers a voice.
Is Getsatisfaction worth our time?
Once registered on [...]

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OpenOffice.org and GIMP: software alternatives

I spoke with a few classmates recently about alternatives to both Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. Both OpenOffice.org and GIMP do a good job on the word processing and image editing fronts and they are free to use. While advanced users may not be satisfied with both of these open source alternatives because [...]

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Making a useful ’super forum’

Things are getting very interesting in the Web PR world. With all the work I’ve done in Computer Science and Information Technology along with my personal use of different Windows gadgets and Linux, using Internet tools for public relations purposes just feels natural.
So far Melanie McBride has shown our Centennial class a number of [...]

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