Hi. My name is Brian, and I’m a gadget junkie. (Everybody say, “Hi, Brian!”)
The number of Apple products I own borders the absurd, and you can ask anyone in the office about my mobile phone addiction. Verizon absolutely loves me – I’m pretty sure they own at least one of my kidneys for all the phone upgrades I’ve done to get the latest and greatest hardware.
So when Amazon (which is my second love next to Apple) said they were going to release a tablet device – the Amazon Kindle Fire – there really wasn’t any question about getting one. Oh, sure – I tried to tell myself I didn’t need it; I already own an iPad, so why do I need an Android tablet?
The answer is so I can review it for you guys. At least, that’s what I tell my wife. There probably needs to be a show on Discovery Channel about people like me. (more…)
November 16, 2011 Filed under: Devices — Brian @ 11:54 am
IsaGeeks’ first podcast is now live on iTunes. We had to wait a few days to announce it, since it takes a while for Apple to approve everything when you submit a podcast, and we wanted to make sure everything was in order before we did.
When you get to this page, click on the, “View in iTunes,” and subscribe from there. You can add it to your mp3 player, or just listen to it on your computer.
If you currently have this set up, you’ve likely already seen this message on your profile:
Why the change? There’s no word. However, if you have this set up currently for your Facebook profile, you will need to add stories manually after the 22nd.
Bear in mind, this is hardly a bad thing. Studies have shown that automatically posting content to Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. drastically reduces engagement. One study showed that auto-posting to Facebook decreased Likes by 70%. Their conclusion was that since Facebook truncated automatic posts, there was less for people to see when they discovered them, and therefore less of a chance that they would interact with them.
My own feeling is that people are less likely to look at something that has been re-shared than something a friend or associate took the time to write out. If you come across a story that is interesting to you, it stands to reason that the people who connected with you with will be more interested in your post if you tell them why you find it interesting yourself.
Hopefully, this is an improvement over the first podcast; we had a bit more time to work on it, and we got $5 for for some audio clips, so now the podcast has a budget! (All baloney aside, you’d be surprised how far $5 will go on the internet for sound bites.)
In this episode, we discuss different ways to help us help you find information and answers to questions, we discuss Tumblr and its benefits vs. WordPress, how to structure your blog with your interests, Eric talks about the “witchcraft” of the new iPhone and which phone you should use, and the super-awesome Tip ‘o the Week.
The long anticipated Google Pages – the solution that allows businesses to create a presence on Google Plus – are now available. We have created two Pages for Isagenix you can include in your Circles: One for Isagenix, the other for theIsaGeeks.
Three of the most basic neat things you can do on a blog are sharing a link to another site, a video, or your own photos. The question of how to do this was asked this week in our Facebook Group how to do this, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to give you this quick walk-through of how to add a link.
Over the next couple of days, I will include posts on adding photos and videos as well.
HTML Links
There are two ways to put a link into a blog post: HTML code, or through the blog’s dashboard. The latter is the simpler way to do this, but it’s still important to know why it works. For that, we need to start with the coding.
Okay, so you’ve started blogging. People are starting to find you, and you’re slowly gaining a following.
So how do you get the people who’ve found you to keep seeing what you’re up to?
Here’s what you need to know: Every blog has an RSS feed. (RSS stands for, “Really Simple Syndication,” but you don’t need to remember that for anything.) That feed contains everything that has been posted on that blog.
You can usually find the feed on a blog by looking for this image:
If the blogger is just connecting this to the raw feed, it will look like this:
It’s been suggested that the IsaGeeks stop being such egomaniacs, get out from in front of the camera and just do a podcast. I mean, really – we have faces for radio anyway, (“Except for me.” – Eric) and the video guys were getting tired of our demands for designer water and only orange M&Ms. (The blue ones aren’t ripe yet).
So we finally got our act together (sort of) and recorded our first podcast, where we discuss the new Facebook layout, Google Plus, smartphones, and Twitter tools, among other things. Click the more link to get to the audio:
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