tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:32:05 +0000web tipshackblog tipsweb toolsmacbrandingmarketingadvertisingfacebooksocial mediawork at homeAlexaaddthisapplebest practiceselectionerrorfailgmailremove advertisingsite rankstumbleupontechnologytwitterword404Daily DulcineaMRSARSSapril foolsbounce ratecold and fludomainsfail whalefeedburnerfirefoxfirst postfreelancinggrammarjokespdfsportswhaleThoughts about online marketing, web analytics, and web development.http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)Blogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-739143681529101985Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:24:00 +00002010-04-16T20:31:49.687-04:00advertisingapplebrandingfailgrammarmacmarketingtechnologyOne of my biggest pet peeves (as far as grammar) is when people put modifiers on the word unique. It happens all the time in casual conversation, and I've been guilty of it myself when speaking, but whenever I see it in a written document or in advertising I cringe.The guilty party this time is Apple, a company that frankly should have enough money and talent to know better.This was greeting me http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2010/04/only-at-apple-online-store-terrible.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-8077746789556104007Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:02:00 +00002010-02-20T02:37:35.232-05:00facebooksocial mediasportstechnologytwitterI was writing for my company blog this afternoon about how social sites such as Twitter and Facebook have changed the Olympic games for the athletes and for the spectators. We can now get first hand commentary and pictures from those participating, which is really cool if you are a television spectator, but not as cool if you are a coach trying to get your team to focus, or someone on the http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2010/02/olympics-low-tech-vs-hi-tech.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-5049190703445647966Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:07:00 +00002009-10-23T17:59:48.651-04:00marketingI'm always interested to see marketing campaigns go viral (or viral content turned into marketing), and so when I saw a sneak preview of "The Fourth Kind" last night I went straight home and started looking at what info the movie folk had put out there.Now, the movie does a pretty good job of convincing the audience that it is based on "real" events, providing haunting audio and video clips http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/10/viral-marketing-and-fourth-kind-hoax.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-109632383641353863Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:54:00 +00002009-09-22T15:59:58.959-04:00brandingfailhacktwitterSo today I was looking at the old blog to show a coworker and example of something, when I realized that my twitter feed looked strange. Upon closer inspection I realized that I seemed to have been tweeting a lot (and about a lot of very un-PC things). I checked all my settings, fine. I checked my actual twitter account, fine.What seems to have happened is that some user created a twitter http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/09/twitter-feed-hijacked-by-undefined-also.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-1239311524806749431Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:59:00 +00002009-08-28T03:29:49.950-04:00advertisingbest practicesbrandingfacebookmarketingsocial mediaAh if only the internet could talk. The stories of bad ads it could tell. Lose 20 lbs of belly fat, reduce your mortgage, get free prescription meds, hit the monkey.I'd like to believe that in most cases the advertisers behind these ads have no way of knowing who is seeing them (no cookies, no user profiling, etc) and that they are just using a wide network of anonymous ad space, so I may extend http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/08/facebook-when-good-ad-space-goes-to-bad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-1882480536041611848Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:01:00 +00002009-08-24T12:09:03.483-04:00advertisingappledomainserrorfacebookmacmarketingwhalewhen I went to check on my usual facebook stats and post an interesting new article this morning, I was greeted with the apple snow leopard (see below) - thinking I'd done something wrong I clicked again on facebook.com, and the leopard came again.Just so you know I'm not crazy - here is a screenshot of another page after I clicked around on my "facebook" page this morning - check out the URL - http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/08/did-apple-take-over-facebook-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-3733229847937786683Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:21:00 +00002009-08-21T17:36:46.620-04:00404best practicesblog tipsbrandingerrorfail whaleweb tipsI use the web. A lot. So, in my surfing I often come across error pages, page not found, server not found, etc. messages. Often I find these to be very annoying. First, something has gone wrong, and since I am not going to blame myself I am going to blame your website.Now although you, as a website owner, have little control over certain error messages that will reach your audience, such as http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/08/error-pages-fail-whale-and-why-even.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-4771653676648667993Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:54:00 +00002009-04-08T16:55:43.732-04:00blog tipsbounce ratehackweb tipsToday I'm on jury duty, and so in my vast amount of time sitting around with (and without) my computer, I've been doing some heavy thinking.I've come up with a theory about improving bounce rates that may revolutionize the web as I know it.More to come.http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/04/bounce-rate-breakthrough.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-807199663207879685Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:16:00 +00002009-04-08T12:34:16.972-04:00hackremove advertisingsocial mediastumbleuponweb tipsweb toolsI think StumbleUpon would like to make all stumblers believe that it is advertising-free, and that the way in which you come across the sites in the database is completely serendipitous, but it simply isn't true.Now, I'm not knocking the StumbleUpon folks for using adverts, they have to make money just like the rest of us, but the way in which the adverts are displayed is a little sneaky, and a http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/04/reasons-stumbleupon-advertising-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-1275354716449693543Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:08:00 +00002009-04-02T11:43:59.326-04:00april foolsgmailjokesweb toolsI always enjoy a good prank on April Fools' Day, although rarely pull any myself for fear of insulting someone or getting myself into trouble. Reflecting upon a few of yesterday's jokes, I thought I'd share some of my favorite April Fools' Day jokes from the web.1. Google. Each year Google does its best to make us laugh, and usually it works. Yesterday's introduction of Autopilot and CADIE was http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-internet-april-fools-day-jokes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-8995346489477135757Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:38:00 +00002009-01-29T02:48:50.862-05:00hackmacweb tipswordwork at homeNow, rarely am I in a situation where I'm not online, but every so often it happens. Yesterday I needed to send a file from a friend's laptop to my desktop but we were without wireless. Since I wrote the other day about converting word docs into PDF - I thought I'd share another handy and often forgotten feature, bluetooth. No, bluetooth isn't some horrible dental affliction, it is actually a http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-send-files-without-internet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-2094050870924453850Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:38:00 +00002009-01-23T20:41:42.915-05:00hackmacpdfwordI've been told that it is possible to convert a word doc into a PDF on a mac, but somehow whenever I need to do that I forget and end up using indesign or something fancy instead.Today I re-discovered this PDF conversion trick taught to me by many a co-worker and friend over my mac lifetime, so I'd like to share it.To convert your word doc into PDF open the document in word. Hit "file>print" and http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-convert-word-doc-into-pdf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-8374704937898879944Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +00002009-01-09T20:20:33.967-05:00hackmacwork at homeSo, my laptop is a couple years old (I think it had its second birthday in October) and until a month ago I'd never had a problem with it. I never knew a mac could be so sad as what I saw in early december, when mine starting making this strange chirp as it would shut off (not when I asked it to, but all on its own). It was the sound of something going horribly wrong (as I'd heard this same http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2009/01/ways-to-make-your-sad-mac-happy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-5780140258075228865Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:20:00 +00002008-12-04T12:24:46.159-05:00Thanks to all who voted in the first round, findingDulcinea (along with two other sites) has made it to the finals of the Mashable Open Web Awards.You can help us win!Just vote one time each day from now until Dec. 15 - and tell all your friends to do the same!To vote go to www.findingdulcinea.com and enter your email address in the voting box in the right hand column - then check your email to http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/12/findingdulcinea-beats-google-to-open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-1784141032006262360Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:27:00 +00002008-11-20T13:31:39.932-05:00Yes we are taking on search giant Google in our quest for a win in the "search and social search" category.How can you help us? Just use the widget on the right side of this blog, in the category section pull down menu choose "search and social search"then choose "findingDulcinea" in the company pull down menuthen enter your email addressan email will be sent to you to confirm your vote - you http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/11/help-findingdulcinea-beat-google-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-5607484185909738977Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:12:00 +00002008-11-04T16:16:07.590-05:00electionSo, even with a few glitches at the polls today - it seems that voters are still getting out there and making their votes count.A coworker showed me this tracker and I think it is a pretty cool way to see all of the predictions (looks like everyone is leaning toward obama right now)http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/11/predicting-winner-of-2008-pres-election.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-1568529932313177327Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:22:00 +00002008-11-04T12:33:37.286-05:00electionElection day is finally upon us, and to help you get the latest news, here are a few places to get election 2008 coverage.1. BBC election coverage - It is great to get a little bit of coverage from a different perspective than the US and the BBC is the place to get some outside info on the presidential election2. findingDulcinea - If you want a little history with your breaking news coverage, http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/11/where-to-get-your-election-2008-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-7382735229878795750Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:41:00 +00002008-07-02T09:18:18.033-04:00blog tipsfirefoxhackweb tipsweb toolsThe day I learned about browser tabs my online experience changed for the better - new window? no need. Just Cmd T and you can open a new tab.Last week I learned how to navigate through those tabs - and I've since become a Web browsing master.Here are some of those tab tricks (this is for Mac users with firefox 2 - if you have firefox 3 or are using windows - check out mozilla's keyboard http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/07/firefox-tabs-just-got-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-6551553373436489093Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:59:00 +00002008-04-18T18:05:42.177-04:00blog tipsDaily DulcineaSo - we moved our company blog to it's own site and gave it it's own identity.Check out "Librarian of the Internet" where you'll find ramblings and insight from our writers, researchers, and whoevers about what we're finding on the web, what's going on in the New York startup scene, and other great stuff.Here's a preview of the blogDon't worry, just because there is a new kid in town doesn't meanhttp://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/04/bloggingdulcinea-weve-got-new-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-5244180852707823384Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:33:00 +00002008-04-16T23:42:59.154-04:00Alexablog tipshacksite rankweb tipsweb toolsSo - just as I'd divulged the secrets of Alexa Rank in my "improve your alexa rank without even trying" post, Alexa went ahead and changed how they rank things (pretty much meaning that they are now gathering data from more than just the alexa toolbar users).I hope that some of you enjoyed the last few glory days of abusing the toolbar rank system, and I suppose I should have kept my big mouth http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/04/maybe-alexa-is-on-to-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-7135367350109816706Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-04-07T17:58:16.705-04:00Alexablog tipshacksite rankweb tipsweb toolsNote: The following tips will work best for smaller sites (such as this blog) with current page ranks higher than a few hundred thousand. However, they wont hurt any site (large or small) so feel free to give them a try.In the beginning of my journey to Internet expertise, I thought that Alexa rank was the end-all of site rankings, I figured that there was some magic formula used to determine http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/04/improve-your-alexa-rank-without-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-8845903600317906210Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:42:00 +00002008-03-10T19:02:20.522-04:00hackstumbleuponweb tipsweb toolsIt was the thought of putting one more add-on onto firefox that’s kept me away from StumbleUpon for so long, but today I made the leap.However, after a few hours of StumblingUpon things - I’m still on the fence about whether or not I'll keep if for a couple reasons:1. There is the possibility that I will be stumbling from now until eternity (it is a pretty fun way to discover stuff).2. The http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/03/stumbling-over-stumbleupon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-7713559306802301760Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:10:00 +00002008-01-23T18:32:22.166-05:00blog tipshackweb tipsweb toolsSo, I've got Google Alerts set up to let me know when anyone in the blogosphere is talking about findingDulcinea.com - which makes sense because constantly searching for our site name was driving me a little crazy - and was a less than ideal way to get information.However, I'm finding a few flaws in the Google Alerts system - specifically that the "alert" should more aptly be named "whenever we http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-alerts-fast-way-to-get-noticed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-5316092663231657953Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:22:00 +00002008-01-14T10:44:25.014-05:00gmailhackremove advertisingweb tipsI always feel slightly intruded upon whenever I see ads targeted at my e-mail content. Now, I know that it is only a computer program that sifts through my e-mail on Gmail and serves up related ads - but nonetheless I always feel a little annoyed (especially when it interprets every reference to findingDulcinea as proof that I must be looking for Don Quixote memorabilia - which - if you are - wehttp://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/01/getting-rid-of-some-ads-on-gmail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832834688247399912.post-3017992301375331304Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:21:00 +00002008-01-10T17:53:20.691-05:00addthisblog tipsfeedburnerweb tipsAs promised, here are some quick tips for inserting an RSS feed button on your blog. Don't have a blog? Try this Guide to Blogs to read all about them or create one yourself.Getting the Basic FeedCreate an account with FeedBurner. FeedBurner makes it super-easy to create an RSS for your blog because it prompts you to enter your blog URL on the homepage, and then steps you through finishing the "http://allthewritesites.blogspot.com/2008/01/feed-you-rss-for-your-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Haley Lovett)0