The Social Media landscape is not static. It’s tectonically active, and changes from day to day. That’s why you need to start with a geological survey to make sure what you build can withstand the environment. Before setting forth on creating an account, it’s important to…
Can we update an existing document in our website without losing the links to that document? YES WE CAN! The Problem with Replacing a File A good example of the old way is to think about a document that is updated annually, like a policies document. Up until now, in…
As 2012 begins, the External Web Services team takes a look back at 2011 and what they consider to be the greatest trend or achievement in web development and communications for the year.
A couple years ago at SXSW, I watched a great demo from a few of the guys at Google about how they won over internal audiences for new products. They demonstrated several user experiences and introduced me to the idea of rapid prototyping. image…
The new version of Adobe Media Encoder in CS5 is a great little tool for encoding video, especially if you are accustomed to switching frequently between After Effects and Premiere.
In Google Analytics and Social Interaction Part 1, we looked at methods of recording how often people on our sites share content from that site with their networks in social media. But how do we measure incoming traffic from these social networks?…
As a programmer, programming is fun to me. I'm sure a lot of other code monkeys feel the same way. It is satisfying to be presented a problem, and create a solution for it.
Size matters when you are creating web pages. The larger the file, the longer it takes for the page to download and become visible for your viewers.
As anyone who sits behind a computer screen for many hours each day knows, there are many repetitive tasks we perform that accumulate into substantial time sinks over the course of a work week. Things such as file/application browsing, window resizing, copying/pasting, etc can really slow us down.
As marketers and communicators, we go to where the audiences are online to deliver and receive messages. Today, that is Facebook. With over 500 million users and a daily usage that surpasses that of Google, using Facebook as a communications channel by any large business or institution…
