Grab Bag: Your 5 Links of the Week!

Posted in: Website Links

  1. http://tinyurl.com/2wwx6ln - Implementing this simple website content strategy has increased many a company’s sales. It very well could do the same for your business. I guarantee it.
  2. http://tinyurl.com/dbtdz3 - Ten excellent battery hacks, tips, and tricks. Because, after all, “the gadgets you love don’t always love you back—at least when it comes to battery life.”
  3. http://tinyurl.com/2f5wt33 - Should I assume that you’ve seen this well-done video highlighting all you need to know about the Vail Resorts EpicMix Android App, yes?
  4. http://tinyurl.com/ns28ab - Five ways you can increase traffic to your blog. (Note: I’m assuming your blog has excellent, high-quality content that people want to read. If not, focus on that prior to working on increasing traffic to your blog.)
  5. http://tinyurl.com/2486byp - A collection of four easy Windows XP tweaks: turning off Windows Messenger for good, turning off hibernation, turning off indexing to speed up response time, and removing “Messenger Services” advertisements.

Making Phone Calls from Gmail

Posted in: Email, Web Info, Tips & Tricks

Look out Skype. Google’s trying to take over your part of the world, too.

Call your friend who’s sitting at home. Call your sister who’s out and about on her cell. Call your co-worker on his computer while he’s working at the office. Call them all from Gmail. It’s easy. Just download and install the Gmail Voice & Video Chat plugin right here: http://www.google.com/chat/voice/.

And here’s the sweetest part of it all: calls to the U.S. and Canada are actually free until the end of 2010 (and calls to other countries start at 2 cents per minute).

If you’d like to see Google’s clever illustrated video promoting the service, visit: http://tinyurl.com/2dgsxay (Though as the highest-rated commenter on the YouTube page so appropriately noted, “Cavemen at 1000BC? Someone skipped history class.“)

How to Add Links and Sharing Options to Your YouTube Videos

Posted in: Web Info, Tips & Tricks

Make your YouTube  videos work harder for you. Create video product listings that link directly to your site’s shopping cart. Create music video links that take people directly to the iTunes store. Or add a link in your videos that simply takes people straight to your blog.

All the tasks above are very straightforward when you use the right tool. And in this case, all you need is a little tool called LinkedTube. Check out the official LinkedTube page (with the 3:19 intro video) here: http://www.linkedtube.com and, if you’d like to read through some people’s comments on, thoughts about, and experiences using LinkedTube, have a look at Tiffany Dow’s blog post here: http://tinyurl.com/2b4jd35.

New Website Content Strategy Presentation

Posted in: Tips for Business Websites

Just uploaded a Website Content Strategy Presentation to Slideshare, called “Looking at Your Organization’s Website With Outside Eyes: Ensure Your Site’s Content is Working *For* You, Not Against You”.

This presentation was given at the 2010 Annual Colorado Parks and Recreation Association conference by Erin Pheil of timeforcake.

View the website strategy presentation slideshow.

Enjoy!