Archive for Social Networking

Five Tools For Successful Web Marketing, Part 4: ShareThis

Monday, July 13th, 2009

sharethisCombing your website’s unique content with the popularity of social networks and social bookmarking sites can drive a lot of new traffic to your site. There are many applications out there for doing this, but the most convenient and well established is the ShareThis application. It is a customizable javascript that you can place on your site manually or through a plugin that allows visitors to easily share a link to your page on a wide variety of social networking services. The benifits of this should be pretty obvious. Here are a few tips on integrating a ShareThis bug on your site. Read More→

Interview with iThemes

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

phoneI’ve known Cory Miller from iThemes.com for years, and last week he came over to shoot some video for our upcoming video blog. After the shoot was over he offered to say some nice things about Main Street. (I didn’t ask him too, but I certainly didn’t refuse when he offered.)

When he did the testimonial he mentioned that one of the key reasons he trusts Main Street to take care of his referred customers is because when clients call, we answer the phone!

I hadn’t thought about answering the phone as a competitive advantage in the high-technology world, but now that I think about it, we do work with a lot of vendors who are reachable only via email.

So, if you are looking for real people who answer their own phones, then Main Street may be a good fit for you. We are generally in the office from 8am – 5pm central time, Monday – Friday. Give us a call.  (We also respond to emails pretty promptly too.)

Cory’s complete testimonial is here. Thanks Cory!

Freedom of Speech in the Twitter Age

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

iran-tw-20_biggerI watched the Iran Election chatter on Twitter for several hours last night. In a country with no free press and limited free speech it turns out that Twitter is a powerful tool of open communications. As the protesters used Twitter to rally and pass information about government activities, the government tried to block it and other social networking sites. Read More→

New Google tool helps optimize download speeds

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

page-speedGoogle has released a new Firefox add-on called Page Speed. This tool analyzes your web pages’ download speed and makes recommendations to improve it. Page Speed reads your web page coding and runs several tests on it. The test are based on a set of “best practices” known to enhance web page performance.

The Page Speed analysis will show you what changes you can make to your site to make it load faster and reduce your bandwidth usage.

Page Speed requires the Firefox FireBug plugin. Give it a try. While some of the optimization tips probably won’t make a significant increase in load times, it does give a thorough review to your site coding style and makes some eye-opening suggestions.

New Video: Using Facebook in Ministry

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Main Street wrote and produced this video for MinistryCOM. It discusses what Facebook is, and why it represents a unique opportunity in ministry.

This is the beginning of a new series of ministry training videos produced by MinistryCOM.

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