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Death of Tr.im: Rolling your own link shortener might be a good idea

August 10, 2009 – 3:07 pm

UPDATE AUG 12: Tr.im reports that they’re not dead yet. Hey, congrats to them for working something out, at least for now. But still: As Aron Pilhofer notes in the comments below, relying on any third-party for a core functionality represents a significant risk, so I still stand by my advice in this post.
Yesterday [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in analytics & metrics, mobile, services, social media, statistics, twitter | Comments (3)

My Tumblr experiment: Exploring options for fast, easy posts

August 7, 2008 – 10:57 am

People contribute more when contributing is easy. That’s true for posting to sites or forums as well as donating money.
That said, many sites make it surprisingly hard to post. Not excruciatingly difficult — but just laborious enough to be a barrier to some would-be contributors.
This week I’m experimenting with using different tools to post to [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Microblogging, blogs, collaboration, exploring, problems, processes, productivity, tools, usability | Comments (2)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Content Style & Business, General, Labels and Metadata, PR & marketing, Resources, Strategy, Wikis, blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, contributed content, conversational media, creativity, credibility, critical thinking, culture, distribution, education, experience, forums, innovation, journalism, media evolution, mindset, mobile, networking, news, processes, projects, research, search, services, skills, social media, traffic, transparency, world | Comments (18)

Making your home page “bloggier,” but not “a blog.”

March 17, 2008 – 9:35 am

JoniMitchell.com

A bloggier home page definitely doesn’t have to be ugly.

Right now, several of my clients are working on site redesigns and also are looking for ways to increase site traffic. One of the most basic strategies for attracting more traffic to your site is making your site more appealing to search engines. That’s why I’m [...]