Making Things

Step by Step: How to Configure a Hootsuite Stream for Location-based Twitter Search

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 03:17:11

Need to make a location-specific search stream in Hootsuite? Here’s the tutorial.

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Geocoded Twitter Searches, a reference of location-specific search strings for Twitter clients.

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 03:16:11

Looking for examples of location-based Twitter searches that work in Tweetdeck, Hootsuite and other Twitter clients? Here they are!

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Step by Step: How to Configure Tweetdeck to Search Near a Location

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 03:16:11

How do you get Tweetdeck to display just Tweets from a specific area?

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Figuring out the geocode (lat and long) of a location.

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 03:16:11

If you need to know the map coordinates of a location, how do you find them?

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Stop trying to engage your audience.

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 03:4:11

What do people mean when they say to “engage your audience” via social media?

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Vermont Women’s Business Center: Making a website in a handful of hours.

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 02:8:11

One of my recent “Take Gahlord to Lunch” clients was the Vermont Women’s Business Center. They were in a tough situation with their website. Hackers had managed to destroy their existing website leaving them with no way to update their constituents about upcoming events. Redesign and development of a website without the benefit of planning [...]

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How to delete tags in Gist (some of the time)

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 12:17:10

I’m making this tutorial because I’m in the process of removing everything from my Gist account. Not because I’m leaving Gist–not by a long shot. But because I had tried to make Gist do a lot more than it was good at. Since Gist doesn’t have a category feature, I tried to make the tagging [...]

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Quick thoughts on using location services for marketing

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 08:30:10

How can you use Foursquare or Facebook Places for marketing?

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Dogsharks animation to be a part of Prix Jeunesse International

By News | Published: 05:27:10

Thoughtfaucet worked on an animation piece that is showing as part of the Prix Jeunesse International 2010.

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How to find images for your project without stealing.

By Gahlord Dewald | Published: 05:20:10

Where do I find free photographs and images for my projects?

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