Nick Rock

Secure your Twitter Account – Check your permission

Nick Rock — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:19:45 +0000

We all love Twitter and we all love the ease of using it to login to other services via OAuth. Each website, service or application is asking for our permission to access our Twitter account. It is needed to read and tweet or analyze our account. Do you remember which application you have granted access [...]

The ultimate way how to use twitter search

Nick Rock — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:01:57 +0000

Finding relevant content on twitter isn’t always that easy. You have been told to search for keywords related to your topic in interest. Did you tried it? Have you been satisfied and successful with your search? Mostly… not. I have already written about the importance of keyword targeting in this post Social Media Marketers Gold [...]

Marketing? Design Matters!

Nick Rock — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:43:55 +0000

I just had a sleepless night, dreaming of all the bad ads, website and business card designs I have seen yesterday. Honestly. This shouldn’t be a rant or the pointing finger but a wake up call. Whatever you do online to represent your small business, micro business, large brand, your product or whatever should gain [...]

Overload – Get back to your life and refocus

Nick Rock — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:56:45 +0000

Social Media Marketing , Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Twitter , Engage , Connect , Create , Share , Reply , Follow , +1 it , be social , Blogging , constant , flow , path , targeting , social graph , api , etc If you read all those keywords and feel a [...]

Social Media Marketers Gold – Keyword Targeting

Nick Rock — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:53:57 +0000

Today we find Social Media Marketers and so-called “Gurus” everywhere, the same as we found the web developer niche crowding a couple of years ago. Tools are helping businesses to follow and manage their own social channels instead of taking use of a Social Media Marketer. You have to sell yourself the right way to [...]

Social Media Networking Club

Nick Rock — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:19:54 +0000

Do you hear the rustle in the Social Media Jungle? If you look closer, you find all kinds of Social Media Pro’s, Entrepreneur’s, new Marketers etc within this Jungle. Social Media is growing and growing over the past years and has created many new job’s, needs, tools and niches. Do you still think Social Media [...]

Welcome 2012

Nick Rock — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:05:19 +0000

Happy new Year to all of you out there! One of my new years resolution is: Blog more on your old/new site Since I have lost my old blog, read more here, I wasn’t very attracted to keep blogging, the pain was too deep. Things have gone wild in the past and I had a [...]

US mobile providers not tourist friendly

Nick Rock — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:05:32 +0000

During my stay two weeks ago in the great United States of America I have discovered a small push back in service for tourists. I’m traveling across Europe or India and got my mobile phone always very close to me. Sure, I want to stay connected to the internet to check my emails, post photos, [...]

SugarSync – Cloud Storage

Nick Rock — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:16:19 +0000

For a long time I have been a user of Dropbox which is a great backup/storage tool in the cloud. There was just one drawback in using Dropbox: The folder structure In Dropbox you have to create a single folder which is taking care of all your files. So if you want to get your [...]

Sort your dock, add blank space

Nick Rock — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:32:04 +0000

How to keep your dock organized Since Mac OS X Leopard I was a huge fan of a well structured dock with a little trick. If you have a lot of programs apps in your dock, it could be possible that you may have lost the overview from time to time. It looks sometimes a bit [...]