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How to Get Email Updates From Your Favorite Facebook Pages

Regina Fried — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:45:21 +0000

Are you looking for a simple way to keep up with comments and posts on a particular Facebook page? Would you like to receive email updates when this page — or any Facebook page — is updated?

If so, you should sign up for Hyper Alerts, a service that will send you an email each time a post or comment is made on a Facebook page. You don’t have to “like” the page to receive updates.

You can receive “alerts,” as Hyper Alerts calls them, “within minutes,” hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.

The service is free, and unless you are requesting the “within minutes alerts,” you do not have to install an application. To sign up, visit the Hyper Alerts site.

Oh Facebook and Twitter, You Vex Me

Regina Fried — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:46:29 +0000

Learning how to use social media can be difficult. Most platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, have help and support centers, but often they’re hard to find. And sometimes, as is the case with Facebook, the “rules” on how to use the site change so often that you just want to throw your hands up and scream.

Don’t. Help is here.

I’ve updated my Resources page with links that can help you in mastering social media. My favorites for those who are just wading into using Facebook and Twitter are the Mashable guides. If you’re more interested in LinkedIn, subscribe to their blog. And if you use Facebook for your business, be sure to check out the two Facebook-centric sites I’ve listed.

Am I missing one of your favorite resources? If so, let me know by leaving a comment below.

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Color Your Website With These Seven Tools

Regina Fried — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:00:57 +0000

One of the hardest aspects of creating a website is selecting the colors to use.

Often you’ll start with a logo or a photograph that is the jumping off point for the color scheme. But where do you go from there? This can be a real quandary.

Thankfully, the web abounds with tools that can help you select the right colors for your new website.

Here are seven tools that can help make the difficult job of choosing a website color scheme that much easier:

0to255 — a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color; perfect for hovers, borders, gradients, and more;
kuler — explore, create, and share color themes;
Color Scheme Designer — generate color schemes;
ColourLovers — a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns;
Color Palette Generator — create a color palette to match an image;
Color Schemer Gallery — website ready color schemes;
Daily Color Scheme — a new color scheme every day.

What are your favorite tools for selecting website colors? Leave me a comment and a link to the website.

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