andrewsauter

So I’m not a tech blogger, but I have to do design and technical things on a daily basis for my clients to get them to a point where they can actually launch a social media campaign. Lately I’ve been doing a lot with Drupal, it’s a great platform for building a community around a [...]

96% of Online Adults are Willing to Provide an Email [...]

Hey, everyone I just want to write a brief note about writing proposal for services when bidding on a contract. Never give out to much info when writing a proposal, here’s why:

From Indie’s photo stream
Example 1: When I was first starting out, my first thought process was to give all kinds of great [...]

Seriously, it’s getting a bit out of hand: 

That’s not even counting the 50 or 60 messages below that want to tell me how to “EXPLODE MY TWITTER ACCOUNT BY 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 NEW FOLLOWERS PER DAY!!!!111!!11!!1!!!1 ASK ME HOW!!!!111!!!1!!!!!!!! http://www.bit.ly/1234” yet most of them have around 50-60 followers. 
 

Worthwhile reading for Monday:
Here Comes Twitter Spam and How to Fight It:
A spam-less Twitter feed might just be too good to be true. Spam is becoming an increasing problem on Twitter and something has to be done to separate the wheat from the chaff. Spammers are using Twitter as a tool by replying to your [...]

I came across Tweetzi in a press release today, it’s a neat little search. It’s not that much different than regular Twitter search, there are a few things that make it useful though. For one there’s a “play” button you can hit that will automatically update a certain keyword.
For example, I searched “pizza” :

You can [...]

I had to deal with the issue several hours today of Wordpress stripping out any line break code I tried. I assume it’s some sort of bug, although it seems to be happen with all versions of wordpress. It seems to happen after you left-align a picture. Anyway, I read multiple blogs and none of [...]

This came across my Twitter account this morning and it was something I was worried about. Applications are seeing a drop in use across the board. I’m not surprised a day after the redesign, I lost things our company developed, and I couldn’t find other apps I use. It’s not well pointed out that apps [...]

Hey for all you peep lovers out there, check this out.  I was looking for cool Easter basket stuff for the kid. Since I prefer to do all shopping from my geekosphere she is stuck with what I can find online.  So  her basket contains Season 1 of Sliders, a cool chicken that lays bubble [...]

Something I’ve been saying for awhile, companies know that social media is important but are still having a disconnect that they need to invest money into it. From Advertising Age:
Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV:

Agencies Need to Think More Facebook, Twitter, Less TV
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Tells Marketers They Should Not Buy [...]