JJ Lassberg » Web/Tech http://jjlassberg.com Plugged Straight Into the Creative Source Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:45:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WordCamp Houston – I’ll Be There! http://jjlassberg.com/wordcamp-houston-ill-be-there/ http://jjlassberg.com/wordcamp-houston-ill-be-there/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:48:10 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=910 WordCamp Houston - I'll Be There!

WordCamp Houston - I'll Be There!

]]> http://jjlassberg.com/wordcamp-houston-ill-be-there/feed/ 0 Get Your Recipe found on Google http://jjlassberg.com/google-recipe-tool/ http://jjlassberg.com/google-recipe-tool/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:03:40 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/httpgooglewebmastercentral-blogspot-com201004better-recipes-on-web-introducing-htmlutm_sourcefeedburnerutm_mediumfeedutm_campaignfeed%3ablogspot%2famdg%28officialgooglewebmastercentra/

  • http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/better-recipes-on-web-introducing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FamDG+%28Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

    New Google Recipe ToolIf you have recipe content on your site, you can get started now by marking up your recipes with microdata, RDFa, or the hRecipe microformat. To learn more, read our documentation on how to mark up recipe information or our general help articles on rich snippets for a more complete overview.

    tags: recipes, blog, google, snippet, how-to

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

    (Thanx for the pic! http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisa_yarost/149368058/)

    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/google-recipe-tool/feed/ 0     Best Web Tool – Best of 2009 http://jjlassberg.com/612/ http://jjlassberg.com/612/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:39:24 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=612 Financial Freedom

    Best of 2009 cont… December 23 Web tool. It came into your work flow this year and now you couldn’t live without it. It has simplified or improved your online experience.

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to Vertex42 for your FREE!!! Debt Reduction Snowball Calculator

    When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. This year all the emotional and spiritual work I have done around money finally settled in to an actual noticeable financial difference and this tool, working in tandem with Mint.com, has been a true blessing.

    HT to @brandius for sending it my way!

    Thanx for the pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/279583606/sizes/m/#cc_license

    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/612/feed/ 0     #4. Content is still King: Top 10 Take Aways from the Mom 2.0 Summit http://jjlassberg.com/4-content-is-still-king-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/ http://jjlassberg.com/4-content-is-still-king-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:33:21 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=146 queen2

    We have a saying  at Schipul… Content is King… Or Queen shall we say for this post…

    And I heard time and time again in the Mom 2.0 panels that GOOD content is what will draw your audience to you. Whether you are an individual women looking to grow your personal brand’s influence and followers or you are corporate marketing looking for ways to connect with the women who buy your product…  content is the number one tool for your success or demise.

    Every blog post, tweet, facebook status, email, etc… is an opportunity to stand out.

    Be it funny, entertaining, enlighting, or educational… the content you put out there is more important than any crazy hair-brained gimick you come up with.

    (Thanx to MarkWallace for the pic)

    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/4-content-is-still-king-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/feed/ 0     #5. Consistency is as Important as it Ever Was: Top 10 take aways from the Mom 2.0 Summit http://jjlassberg.com/5-consistency-is-as-important-as-it-ever-was-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/ http://jjlassberg.com/5-consistency-is-as-important-as-it-ever-was-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:30:38 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=143 Ever see a blue McDonald’s Logo or the ever recognizable scripty fonted Coca-Cola printed in neon green? Me neither! These super-mega-world-domineering brands practice a very simple marketing rule… consistency.

    The web today is changing the face of marketing…  allowing individuals, small businesses, non-profits and super-mega-world-domineering brands alike the opportunity to reach their audiences in new and amazing ways. Still, I believe consistency is as important as it ever was.

    Marketing is shifting away from the drowning roar of “let me tell you why you should buy my thing-a-ma-bob” to “let’s have a relationship and you will buy my product cause you like & trust me.” There are so many online social marketing tools available now, with more popping up each day… your brand (personal or corporate) can become very easily and quickly diluted. Enter the age old rule of consistency… make sure you look and sound the same where ever you are. Well what does that look like? If you are just getting your feet wet with social marketing/media, try this as a goal:

    • Your avatar is the same on facebook, twitter, linkedin, flickr, etc.
    • You name is the same everywhere.
    • www.jjlassberg.com
    • twitter.com/jjlassberg
    • jjlassberg at g mail dot com
    • www.flickr/jjlassberg
    • You website, blog and twitter background all compliment each other… if not exactly the same.
    • Where ever you are online, make sure that all the info, pictures, colors, fonts and design elements are as consistent as you can make them.

    This will let people know that no matter where they connect with you online, they have indeed connected with YOU… which goes back to the trusting and liking and buying from you thing.

    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/5-consistency-is-as-important-as-it-ever-was-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/feed/ 0     #6. This Conference was brought to You by the Letter T and the Number 2: Top 10 Take Aways from the Mom 2.0 Summit http://jjlassberg.com/6-this-conference-was-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t-and-the-number-2-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/ http://jjlassberg.com/6-this-conference-was-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t-and-the-number-2-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:27:45 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=132 tT is for Twitter

    Here is a list of some very cool twitter tools that were buzzing around the Summit:

    1. Twitter Search (Summize): What are Twitterers Tweeting about these days
    2. Twirl: Nice API. Floats on your desktop. Has notification pop-up and a makes tweeting a little easier.
    3. TweetDeck: Saw lots of this at the summit. Has all the typical Twitter Tool functionality with the addition of group/deck feature. Create your own groups… put people in ‘em… word of warning, DON’T close a group you have created… it will go away… for-EVER! and you will have to start it all over again
    4. TweetScan: Tweet Scan searches Twitter
    5. Splitweet: Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitor
    6. TwitterBerry: Twitter for your Crackberry… this is how I do all my out and about Twittering… it has made me a master at the Crackberry keyboard.
    7. TwitterSnooze: Stop following someone for a few days cause they are taking notes on a conference via twitter and the hashtags and twittering every freakin’ 5 seconds is starting to drive you batty… or something like that.
    8. Mr. Tweet: Suggestions on who to follow
    9. Friend or Follow: In case you just have to know…
    10. TweetGrid: Twitter search dashboard
    11. Twittervision: I don’t know if this actually useful, but it is totally fun
    12. CityTweet: Search local tweet by city. This sounds really cool… but its not available for Houston… sigh…
    13. TweetLater: Automated Tweets like auto-follow new followers.
    14. TwitterFeed: Automatically post your new blog entries to Twitter. (Guy says this is a must, must, must!)

    And Not Twitter related by Guy Kawasaki related:

    1. Tynt Tracer: When your content is copied, Tracer automatically adds an attribution link to claim it as yours. Pretty cool way of tracing where your content if heading off to once you set it free.
    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/6-this-conference-was-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t-and-the-number-2-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/feed/ 0     #7. Mom’s are all a-twitter about twitter: Top 10 Take Aways form Mom 2.0 Summit http://jjlassberg.com/7-moms-are-all-a-twitter-about-twitter-top-10-take-aways-form-mom-20-summit/ http://jjlassberg.com/7-moms-are-all-a-twitter-about-twitter-top-10-take-aways-form-mom-20-summit/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:24:54 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=129 Fab!Hubby walked in Sunday morning and announced, “Twitter is main stream!” He relaid he had heard 5 different references to Twitter in his 30 minute drive back from a job site he was checking on. And I have to agree with him… a large portion of the Mom 2.0 Summit was focused on Twitter. Lots of talk about twitter, lots of #mom2summit twittering on twitter, lots of intro’s and how-to’s for twitter users (more on that later) and I decided to take the opportunity to put down pencil and paper and take up the challenge of live twitter note taking. It turns out, posting out the things I want to remember in 140 characters or less was actually quite useful.

    Realtime results for jjlassberg #mom2

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    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/7-moms-are-all-a-twitter-about-twitter-top-10-take-aways-form-mom-20-summit/feed/ 0     #8. Just When You Thought The Bloggess Couldn’t be Any Funnier: Top 10 Take Aways from the Mom 2.0 Summit http://jjlassberg.com/8-just-when-you-thought-the-bloggess-couldnt-be-any-funnier-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/ http://jjlassberg.com/8-just-when-you-thought-the-bloggess-couldnt-be-any-funnier-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:21:24 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=126

    There is nothing I can add to this… it is the definition of elegance.

    Credit goes to:

    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/8-just-when-you-thought-the-bloggess-couldnt-be-any-funnier-top-10-take-aways-from-the-mom-20-summit/feed/ 0     Martha Stewart’s Little Design Tweak http://jjlassberg.com/martha-stewarts-little-design-tweak/ http://jjlassberg.com/martha-stewarts-little-design-tweak/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:53:46 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=45 Its new, its simple, its soooo Martha.

    We designers are looking for ways to stretch the envelope a little… you know that "Think Outside the Box" thing… unfortunately, everything on the Internet comes in little boxes. That’s the way HTML works… we have tables with cells and guess what? They all have straight edges. In the ancient past of web design – everything had a straight – then we got smart and made little curved graphics and faked round edges. And for a while you had your choice – straight edge vs curved edge… now, we are shake it up a bit. The most recent example I came across was the Martha site, and you know… she’s just sooo Martha. Her design team has taken the whole edge thing in a total different direction… I immediately went – well, of course! Say what you want about Martha – she definitely has style.

    Schilling_2

    Mile

    Cinco

    Martha

    ]]>     http://jjlassberg.com/martha-stewarts-little-design-tweak/feed/ 0     Operation Mom http://jjlassberg.com/operation-mom/ http://jjlassberg.com/operation-mom/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:02:26 +0000 JJ http://jjlassberg.com/?p=75 Social Media, Houston, Mom… its so me!

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    Saw this article at the Houstonist last night >> OpMom Web 2.0 Launch Party at Benjy’s

    My excerpt’s:

    1. you are probably aware that Houston has recently been a hot bed for Social Media Startups
    2. One of these ventures, the locally-based OpMom

      1. OpMom is short for Operation Mom, and is a social community for moms. In addition to offering web-based organization, it was created to offer moms a safer and more useful alternative to the catch-all social networking sites and traditional media outlets. There are no gimmicky reward systems, annoying pop-up ads or confusing navigation. Every mom is an expert in her own right, and OpMom incorporates the collective wisdom of thousands of mothers of all ages, sharing advice and ideas around the world’s largest coffee table.

    So, I HAD to check it out! And when I saw HappyKatie was a new member – well I knew it was worth sticking around for a bit. I set up a profile – invited some of my sisters…

    It is really cool… or just somp’in else to do? The jury is still out… but I am interested in supporting a local online startup thats about women, for women, by women.

    Check it out and let me know what you think.

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