Making Things

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

How can you use Foursquare or Facebook Places for marketing?

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Dogsharks animation to be a part of Prix Jeunesse International

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.

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

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Website redesign SEO checklist

I want to migrate my site from one domain over to a new domain and I want to make sure that all of the inbound links that pint to the old URL get redirected properly without impacting our PR. I’m also a little concerned about how my new information architecture will impact the SEO. What should I do to help keep my SEO after my site redesign?

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Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress site.

How do I install the Facebook Like button on Wordpress?

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