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This week kicks off a special presidential edition of Talance’s Friendly Web Tools Blog, celebrating the first time in eight years that the White House has participated in the technological revolution that’s been exploding everywhere else on the planet. We love how the President-elect has used technology to reach so many people, raise so many […]

If you’re at a congregation and are having a lazy Friday like I am, take about three minutes and fill out this survey from our good friends at the Center for Congregations in Indiana. They’re doing important research into how congregations are using social media. Can’t wait to see the results, especially since Talance just

If you have a second, check out Wikipedia, which is trying to earn $6m through donations. They’re asking for it in the best way, which is to put a prominent request at the top of the page, remind people how useful Wikipedia is, and tell donors how much they count on their support. All in

Travel was supposed to become a tiny bit less aggravating. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved use of carry-on bag designs that allow pass-through of laptops without removing them for X-ray inspection. Plenty of purveyors capitalized on the opportunity for selling new bags, including Belkin, Mobile Edge and Targus, among many others. The reality of

The world of technology is hard enough to keep up with – never mind all the new vocabulary that continually arises. That’s why we decided to launch an occasional new feature, the Friendly Web Tools Blog Word Watch. We’ll keep our ears open for new words and define them here so you can see what’s

The sorry truth about your carefully crafted website copy is that people aren’t really reading it. People scan web pages very quickly, and they only pick up bits of information from a few key places, namely top left. For you, it means you should think like a resume writer when you go to put words

A quick post today that should help you understand why you should care about what Generation Y cares about, in particular when it comes to your website. First, definitions. Here are the four main generations we’re sharing the US with, as defined by the book Generations by William Strauss and Neil Howe: Silent Generation (born

There are billions of fonts out there, which makes it darned difficult to identify one by sight. That’s doubly difficult if someone presents you with a graphic of a font. You can’t exactly look that one up in the font drop-down menu in Word. Instead, you plug it into What the Font?! In their words,

Move over pens, it’s time to make room for a pocket projector. Yes, projector, not protector. The 3M Pocket Projector is a dinky $359 projector that takes the place of hyper-expensive LCD projectors that can run in the thousands. Plug the projector into your laptop to access DVDs, presentations and photos, and project them onto

As you know, we’re sponsoring a benchmarking survey of how nonprofits are using social media. That made me think about how many questions float my way about social media optimization, although people rarely phrase their questions in that way. Search Engine Guide has a great primer on SMO, which I recommend reading. It’ll give you