The Second Cup: Where's Your Button?

Posted by Meghann Olshefski
Thu, 2009-12-17 10:22

Listen to Me: Healthcare Video Contest

It’s time for Harry Reid and Democratic Senators to stop insulting, ignoring, and misleading and start listening.  Record exactly what you want those politicians to hear from you (while keeping it clean and respectful) and upload it to this group now!

HOW:  Only OurGOP members with active accounts are eligible to participate.  Sign up for OurGOP here.  To enter, join the OurGOP group “Listen to Me: Health Care Videos” and upload your video to the group page before Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 11:59 pm EST.  To upload video, just click on “Add Videos” under “Get Involved” in the column to the left, attach your video, fill out the form, and upload – it’s that easy!

Outsourcing Social Media: Good or Bad Idea?

One of the big concerns about using social media for business and marketing is time. Social media activities do pose a risk of drawing you in and taking up a huge amount of your day just interacting with people.

Add that the technology is changing all the time.  It can seem impossible to keep up with all the tools, software, techniques, etiquette, and social media best practices.

It’s hardly surprising that people are looking to social media consultants, agencies and contractors to take on their social media activity. But should you? Let’s explore this.

Where's Your Donate Button?

Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. For example, the "90%" contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger.

This is useful for ensuring that important parts of a page's user interface are visible by a wide audience. On the example page that you see when you first visit this site, there is a "donate now" button which falls within the 80% contour, meaning that 20% of users cannot see this button when they first visit the page. 20% is a significant number; knowing this fact would encourage the designer to move the button much higher in the page so it can be seen without scrolling.

Facebook: Introducing the Preferred Developer Consultant Program

We often hear from brands, celebrities, companies, and organizations who are looking for the best resources to start building an application on Facebook.com, optimize a Facebook Connect integration or build a Facebook Page. To help you accelerate your efforts, we are introducing the Preferred Developer Consultant program to connect people to the resources they need to build with Facebook products and technologies.