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Free download of Twitter background template, showing areas for the most common resolutions with a rough guide on percentage of people that have that resolution or higher.   So, keeping your important info to the left-hand 260 or so pixels is advisable to keep it visible for over 68% of people.  It is for out own use and shared as is, but please let us know if you have any questions/suggestions.

Example screenshot:

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A great video by @dmscott full of interesting and useful thoughts on targeting your potential clients in the modern marketing environment. If you only have 2 minutes spare, then I fully recommend watching the beginning section.

A new feature has been rolled out at LinkedIn over the last day or so, which allows you to post a Tweet to your LinkedIn Status.  With the different emphasis of each, you can set it to only Tweet those which include the hash tag #in, that way easily selecting what to update.  When updating your LinkedIn status you can easily then tick the box to update Twitter too.  This is a really handy idea and one that we expect to happen with lots of other applications.

The video below shows LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman and Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone and for a quick video tutorial on how to get set-up, check out the video at 1:43:

Do you want to better engage with your Facebook fan page visitors?  Does your page disappear into the crowd or fail to portray your company image?  We offer affordable Facebook custom fan page design, to help you capitalise on the 300 million active users  (source: Facebook press release).
Here is a sample of our own fan page:

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Twitter is everywhere and so are paid courses to tell you what to do with this new marketing tool, for which the possibilities are limitless. If case you don’t know what Twitter is, here is a short summary:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets, which are limited to 140 characters.  Users can use hashtags (a word prefixed with #) to specify a link to a search for that term.

Is Twitter right for you?  To help get you thinking about your business, here are some short ideas to get you thinking:
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Here are two interesting articles, though while written in 2008 offer useful information relevant today:

• 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business (Chris Brogan) – http://budurl.com/fqet
• Web Strategy: The Evolution of Brands on Twitter – http://budurl.com/795p

With the popularity of Social sites and making long URL’s tiny, this site is sure to be of use.  As well as making the URL tiny, it also gives you a full control panel to track the number of clicks to each of your BudURL’s.  There is a free account available with a cap on links, premium account monthly charges ranging from $8 USD – $12 USD, suiting most users.  You can get your free account here: http://budurl.com

A lot of clients ask for holding pages on web projects, but at the same time wish to keep visitors up to date. After all, there is nothing worse than seeing a “Under construction, ready in Feb 2009” when the months pass and it becomes very outdated. With so much for free on the web it makes sense to use it and below outlines a nice use to create a more dynamic holding page.

You can use your Twitter feed to create an RSS feed of updates, which can then be used to make a news widget.  For free new/feed widgets you can use BlastCasta, which even links to your Twitter feed for you if you provide your username.  You can then customise this to suit and use Twitter to keep your visitors up to date with more than a generic message.

In search of saving myself time and with the aim of trying to be a good social site company, I went in search of a few tools to help me out.  The first I found is called Yoono and I have used it as a Firefox add-on.   It’s great, you can quickly sign up to many of your main sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Google Chat and many more are likely to be added.  From one easy side bar you can update various site status* in one go and keep on top of those updates.

www.yoono.com

Which currently supports the following social sites:

The next interesting tool is another Firefox Add-on called Shareaholic, which enables you an easy way to share sites without cluttering your browser window to your various social pages, such as Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and many many more.  Interesting features too with their BuzzMonitor:

You can now find the freshest news, videos and blogs as they emerge on the realtime web within Shareaholic and easily share that on any of your social networks.

www.shareaholic.com

* PS. Just a little note to the curious that the plural of status in English is status… and in American English it’s statuses.