Over the weekend I noticed that a website I needed to access was down. Or maybe it was a problem with my internet connection. This can be a source of frustration that involves checking routers, restarting computers, redoing this or that and perhaps wasting a bunch of...
ScLoHo’s Web World
What’s a ScLoHo?
Time to re-introduce you to the whole ScLoHo. But first what's a ScLoHo? ScLoHo is a made up word that is a mash-up of my first, middle and last names. Take the 1st two letters of Scott Louis Howard and you get ScLoHo. How do you pronounce ScLoHo? It's just two...
11 Twitter Tips on the 11th
On the 11th of January I have updated an article I wrote 16 months ago: Make sure you fill out your Twitter Profile completely including a link to a site that tells us more about you. Yes, we are going to judge you, we want to see who you are and why we would want to...
One Way to Give This Year with LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a professional oriented social media platform that everyone should be on, even if you are not a "professional". Over the weekend I Googled myself using the "incognito" mode of Chrome, and Safari, (which I never use anymore) and the results where the same....
Sync Your Stuff with Dropbox Updated for 2013
On April 13th last year, I shared with you how you can use a free online storage service (cloud computing) to sync your stuff between various devices. Dropbox is the program/service and you can sign up for it here. As I said last year, Do you have more than one...
The Official Twitter Review of 2012
The folks at Twitter put together a Tweet Review for the year we are still in. They posted it last week on my birthday which means they are not counting the final 3 weeks. For their sake let's hope it's a quiet, non-eventful December. But it isn't. There's all kinds...
Social Media and Online Content Predictions
Thanks again to Joe Pulizzi for including me in his annual Social Media and Content Marketing Predictions for 2013. Over 100 predictions from 80 marketers are included including: Jason Falls, page 13 Paul Dunay, page 15 and dozens of others. My prediction is on page...
How to get around the Picasa Storage Limit on Blogger
First the background... Close to two years ago I gave my daughter Tiffany a challenge. Tiff was going to have her first baby and the challenge was to take a picture every day and post it online. I suggested using Blogger, which is owned by Google. I used Blogger as my...
Just How Big are Those 1/2 Price Online Deals ?
First the disclaimer. Twice I have worked for radio stations that offer some form of online deal. Radio listeners go to the station websites, click on the link and buy the deal that is offered. It could be something like a $50 gift certificate for $25, or some...