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Did you know 4.0

Annette Schwindt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:10:44 +0000

A new presentation of statistics around the evolution of social media usage from the “Did you know” series :

(via Christian Henner-Fehr)

Posted in Social Media, Video Tagged: Facebook, YouTube

Google Wave – I’m in!

Annette Schwindt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:15:50 +0000

Just received my Google Wave invite! Thanks @sebastianvoss! Here’s the short version of an introduction to Google Wave:

Btw. I have five invite nominations left for friends or collegues. Let me know if you want one.

Or you ask for an invitation on the wave signup page.

Posted in schwindt-pr, Social Media, Video Tagged: googlewave

Back from the holidays

Annette Schwindt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:01:44 +0000

Here I am back on duty!

I have not forgotten to post the promised translations of my facebook introduction here. It just wasn’t possible to start it before my holidays. In the meantime the German version has got big attention and the resp. ebook has been downloaded more than 2000 times already!

Thanks to all the great fans of the facebook fanpage of schwindt-pr I was able to get a name url for it. Thanks a lot for that! you can now find the fanpage on http://www.facebook.com/schwindtpr too.

Two interesting news during my holidays:

And now back to work! There are some interesting old and new projects waiting for me!

If you are interested to work with me too, just drop me a line!
You find a list of my services on
http://www.schwindt-pr.com/english/about.html#service.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Posted in schwindt-pr Tagged: ebook, Facebook, fanpage, friendfeed

Agency holidays

Annette Schwindt — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:51:30 +0000

The agency schwindt-pr is on holiday for the rest of August.
Back in the office at September 1, 2009.

Have a nice summer everyone!

Posted in schwindt-pr

eBook about the basics of facebook – so far (!) only in German

Annette Schwindt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:33:36 +0000

If you follow my social media activities you might have already heard about the German eBook about facebook basics I have published earlier this week. Even before the blogpost series on my German agency blog that this eBook is based on was finished I was asked if I was going to publish the same thing in English too! The answer is: yes – but…

… it might take a little time as I do not only have to translate the complete text (51 pages) but I also have to do all the screenshots (100) again with English default language. So I’d probably do as in the German version and publish the different chapters as blogposts here first and in the end sum them up in an eBook too.

Until then here’s the index of the German version translated to English:

“Introduction to the basics of facebook”

1) Facebook – the social network

1.1) How to sign up on facebook
1.2) Your facebook profile

2) Privacy on facebook

1.1) Where can I edit my privacy settings?
1.2) Edit profile privacy settings
1.3) Define visibility of photo albums
1.4) Privacy of my contact information
1.5) Who can find me how?
1.6) Set up what else others can see
1.7) Privacy settings of applications
1.8) What your frends are allowed to do on your wall

3) Posting on facebook (share)

3.1) Share text
3.2) Share links
3.3) Share photos
3.4) Share videos

4) Your Facebook homepage

4.1) Friend requests
4.2) Filtering
4.3) More

5) Friend requests and friend lists

5.1) Sending friend requests
5.2.) Receiving friend requests
5.3) Set up friend lists
5.4) Delete friend lists

6) Use applications on facebook

6.1) Where to find applications
6.2) Useful applications
6.3) Use applications
6.4) More applications settings
6.5) Import more updates on your wall

7) Notifications, private messages, chat

7.1) Notifications
7.2) Private messages
7.3) Facebook chat

Facebook groups

8.1) Find groups
8.2) Group types
8.3) Being active in groups
8.4) Start your own group
8.5) Edit group
8.6) Notifying group members

9) Facebook pages

9.1) What is a facebook page?
9.2) Becoming a fan of page
9.3) Participating
9.4) Set up a facebook page
9.5) Applications
9.6) Other particularities
9.7) Conclusion

10) The facebook fan box

10.1) Where to find the fan box
10.2) Alternative

As with the German version I suppose there will be a lot of updates to facebook while this blogpost series is going on. So the index shown here might change while the work is in progress. I might even post in subchapters to make it all go quicker.

Until then thanks for your patience! And if you haven’t become a fan of schwindt-pr’s facebook page yet, please feel free to do so and help me reach the 100 fans to get a name URL for it. You can of course get updates about recent facebook news and other interesting social media stuff there too.

Posted in schwindt-pr, Social Media Tagged: basics, ebook, Facebook, translation

Twitter follow lists with new design but still…

Annette Schwindt — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:59:38 +0000

Okay, this is a good start but still not what we were looking for… Twitter might have given the follow lists a more stylish design but still you are not able to sort your lists differently than getting them displayed in revert chronological order.

You can now chose between pure list view…

… or the enlarged version…

… that also shows name, location and – not the bio but the latest tweet!

To read the bio you still have to go to the person’s profile. Of course you should do that anyway if you want to read more than the latest tweet to help you decide whether to refollow that person or not.

Getting the option to to display the lists alphabetically and having the number of followers/followings and number of tweets per person shown would be a good update on this.

Looking at your follower list you’ll see the following icons now:

The left one is for refollowing a person:

The right one is for further options:

Once you have followed a person, the left icon changes to:

And the menu of the right icon changes to:

Btw. the “Block username” option is still leading you to the blocked person’s profile to verify blocking which is still user-unfriendly. this could be made more practical by just having it done within your list.

Conclusion: Stylish new look for these lists but still not as usable as we would like them to be.

What do you think?

Posted in Social Media Tagged: Design, Twitter, usability

Facebook name url is here

Annette Schwindt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:03:53 +0000

For all those who haven’t heard it yet: since this (early!) morning 6.01 a.m. you can set up your own custom url for your facebook profile. No complicated urls with lots of numbers in anymore.

All you need to do is got to http://www.facebook.com/username and chose a username (wich is usually firstname.lastname) for your profile.

So mine is now: http://www.facebook.com/annette.schwindt

If you have linked your old url in your blog, website or wherever and set up a new name url, no need to panic: the link is redirected and still working.

It is also possible to register such name urls for facebook pages now. But for the moment it’s only possible for pages set up before May 31, 2009 and with over 1000 fans.

Have you secured your name url yet?

Posted in Social Media Tagged: custom, Facebook, url, username

How to code share links

Annette Schwindt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:50:15 +0000

Social media is about sharing and there are different tools out there that help you make your blogposts or website’s pages shareable. But most of them are based on some external script. Moreover someone who has deactivated Java will not be able to use them.

The good news: you don’t have to use scripts to make things shareable. You can also do that with normal html and a few commands inside that. You only have to adapt them to the resp. link you want to share (which you would also have to do if sharing via script).

Make sure you get the quotation marks in the right place and that you add a slash / at the end of a blogpost-url or the .html ending (or.php or .htm or whatever you use) at the end of a website’s url (if you link to an index page, use the complete url like http://www.schwindt-pr.com/index.html).

Ready? Here we go:

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Twitter

Code:

Twitter

Example:

Twitter

Try it: share this post on Twitter

As for twitter it might be useful to insert not the extended url but to use a never expiring short url (as with tinyurl) instead. And you can also add some more text. Which would make the code change to:

http://tinyurl.com/ngqtfl” title=”Share this on twitter”>Twitter

Try it: share this post on Twitter

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Facebook

Code:

Facebook

Example:

Facebook

Try it: share this post on Facebook

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Delicious

Code:

delicious

Example:

delicious

Try it: share this post on delicious

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Friendfeed

Code:

Friendfeed

Example:

Friendfeed

Try it: Share this post on Friendfeed

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Stumbleupon

Code:

Stumbleupon

Example:

Stumbleupon

Try it: share this post on Stumbleupon

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Digg

Code:

Digg

Example:

Digg

Try it: share this post on Digg

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Google

Code:

Google

Example:

Google

Try it: share this post on Google

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Myspace

Code:

MySpace

Example:

MySpace

Try it: Share this post on MySpace

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Code:

Example:

Try it: share this post on Reddit

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If you considered this blogpost as helpful I’d be happy if you left me a comment here or use one of the try out links in this blogpost to share it.

Posted in Tutorials Tagged: HTML, share, sharing

A facebook fanpage for schwindt-pr

Annette Schwindt — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:19:55 +0000

Doing research on facebook fanpages yesterday for my German agency blog I decided to open a fanpage for my agency schwindt-pr too:

Everyone who has a facebook account can easily become a fan there and join the conversation about my projects or general communications subjects.

I’m looking forward to hear from you there too! Just click the image above and log in, then click “become a fan” and there you go.

Posted in Communication, schwindt-pr Tagged: Facebook, fanpage, schwindtpr

How do you deal with translations?

Annette Schwindt — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:31:05 +0000

Interestingly it’s the most basic blogposts I write that are the most successful. Like my article about retweeting on twitter that is on top of my statistics for two months now. Today I got a message on facebook from a Brazilian telling me he had translated this very article to Portuguese and published it on his blog. He asked me if this was okay.

I had a look at his blogpost and noticed that although he mentioned the original blogpost he hadn’t linked it or mentioned my name. He also used my graphics without mentioning the source. I asked him politely to change these things and am now hoping for a positive reaction EDIT: and he promptly reacted and changed this (see comment – thanks, Daniel!).

I’ve also asked him to notify me before publishing if he wants to translate something from me again.

How would you have dealt with this?
Would you see this as copyright violation already
or do you think it is okay the way we handled it?

I’m used to see my press releases being published in translations (I wouldn’t be able to write in Japanese, Russian or Dutch) so I don’t mind if someone wants to translate a blogpost of mine. But I prefer to be asked in advance.

Btw. if you would like to have an article of yours translated I’ll gladly help.
I can offer the following translations:

English or French or Italian >>> German
German or Italian >>> English or French
English >>> French
French >>> English

Posted in Communication, Questions Tagged: Portuguese, translation