Using Your Camera Phone to Post Pics to Twitter

By Gary Cope In part two of our series on “Connecting your cell phone to your social networking sites” we show you how to post pictures to your Twitter account using a third-party application called TwitPic. Now, with any third party application, you must trust the application before you use it. Why? Because to use [...]

Linking Twitter with Your Cell Phone

By Gary Cope Here at CWI Media, we have preached the benefits and advantages of using social networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. If you run a business, hopefully you’ve taken the initiative to set up these accounts. But, did you know that you can take those social networking sites on the road [...]

Do you Blog? Got Tumblr?

By Gary Cope Do you blog? If so, which blogging service do you use? WordPress? Blogger? Typepad? Those three seem to be the most popular, at least in our circle of blogging friends and clients. I have used WordPress extensively and it is my blogging platform of choice for business-related blogs because of its seemingly [...]

From Cell Phone to iPhone

By Gary Cope I recently wrote a guest blog post for Handshake 2.0 (www.handshake20.com) in Roanoke. Below is are the first two paragraphs of the post followed by a link to the full article. Your current two-year cell phone contract is about to expire and you are thinking about dumping your brick-sized flip phone with [...]

How Google Used Twitter to Fix Its Webmaster Tools

By Gary Cope Ah, behold the power of Twitter. I’ve preached about the business benefits of using Twitter and shared examples of other Tweeple who have had problems solved when the company with which they were having issues with saw their gripe-filled Tweets and contacted them to fix things. Well, now I am one of [...]

My Beef with Google’s Webmaster Tools

By Gary Cope As a Web designer, Webmaster and inhouse SEO/SEM, I was THRILLED when Google announced that its Webmaster Tools had added a “Linked From” feature. This new feature finally allowed Web site owners to find out which URLs were linking to “not found” pages on their site. For example, let’s say you did [...]

How NOT to Use Twitter

By Gary Cope *This post is about Twitter, a microblogging tool. If you don’t know what Twitter is, click here for an explanation. Twitter is no longer an exclusively techie/dork medium. Real estate agents, TV stations, newspapers, and even Britney Spears are using Twitter. Depending on your social media savyness, it can take anywhere from [...]