Tutorials

Optimizing Facebook posts for the Ticker

You can optimize your Facebook posts for the Ticker by keeping them short, using keywords and maximizing the potential of the headlines.

Twitter tip: Track @mentions and website links in one search

This simple and quick Twitter tip combines Twitter @mentions with tweets linking to your website so you can keep better track of the conversation about you.

How to add driving directions links to Caspio Datapages

Results of adding driving directions links to Caspio pages

Adding driving directions links to Caspio Search and Report Datapages is easy and useful.

7 tips for shooting & editing news web video

Shoot and edit better online news video for your news website with these 7 quick and easy tips.

Get Firefox 4 & Google Chrome-style App Tabs in Firefox 3.6

Google Chrome and Firefox 4 have a neat feature called “App tabs” (or “Pin tab”) that protect a tab from being closed and reduce its width to show just a site’s favicon. With a couple of Firefox add-ons, you can get this functionality in Firefox 3.6.

Filter and rewrite aggregated headlines the easy way with Yahoo! Pipes

Filtering and rewriting aggregated news headlines is easy with Yahoo! Pipes, a powerful feed-modification tool. This tutorial will show you how it’s done.

Exclude specific news sites from Google News search alert

Web-savvy journalists use Google News alerts and/or RSS feeds to scour the Web for news. Here’s a quick tip for refining the results.

How to get notifications when a website without RSS changes

Stay on top of web page changes without RSS by using a Firefox add-on or an email-based service.

Matt Busse