This month has been Aphasia Awareness Month, a special demarcation we first noted last year on this blog. Aphasia is a condition of neurological disruption, most commonly caused by a stroke or by a head injury, that makes oral and/or written communication difficult. The language center in the brain can not make a smooth or […]
Social Networking: How to Create Your Group’s Facebook Page… and Promote it
Using Facebook is somewhere between easy-peasy and dauntingly complex. As we reported previously, the only really unalterable decision is the first one: do you set up a personal account or a Page for a group, business, band, or nonprofit? Though even that decision can now be adjusted, the adjustment goes only one time and […]
#TECH: Facebook Now Allows Conversion To Business & Fan Pages
When we discussed some of the basics of setting up a Facebook page, we pointed out the mission-critical decision of whether to have a personal page or a business page. Once that decision was made, the features were set and the only way to get the other type of page was to create a separate […]
#ENVIRO: Effects of BP Oil Spill Won’t Be Clear For 10 Years
While many of us were reminded this weekend that winter is not over, we also got some stark reminders that the effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are not over either. Unfortunately, the debates about the effects of the spill, which began in April 2010 and was not capped until September, […]
Social Media: Software Informs You Of Developments On Facebook
Perhaps traditional email is going the way of the fax machine, as we all become more dependent of the instant communication of text messages and tweets. Certainly Facebook’s engineers are counting on that evolution as they roll out Messages. Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of computer users continue to use ‘traditional’ email services and software, even […]
Facebook Update: Going Places And Making Deals
One of the leitmotifs of the fictionalized biopic “The Social Network” concerns Mark Zuckerberg‘s inability/unwillingness to commercialize the burgeoning behemoth that he and his peers have conceptualized and coded. If that inability/unwillingness to imagine the commercial opportunities of Facebook were true as portrayed in the film, the CEO has certainly overcome his shyness of the […]
#Branding: The Gaps In The New Logo From The Gap (Attacks From The Vox Populi)
The people (er, ‘lots of people’) have spoken. And they are miffed. The social-media universe (expanding, yet sometimes surprisingly small) was all atwitter with comments about the new logo accepted (momentarily) by The Gap after it opened up the opportunity to anyone who wanted to participate in a design contest. The entries ran into the […]
#HowTo: Setting Up Various Facebook Pages – Know The Types!
By the summer of 2009, Facebook came with a few new profiles: personal pages, community pages, and public profiles. The three are distinct, and even within the public profiles, one has a number of choices about the kind of public profile one wishes to establish. There were some issues (surprise!) when the features were first […]