Category Archives: tools

Ready, Aim, Fire - 2 Ways That Poor Planning Can Hurt You

July 22, 2008 – 11:52 pm

When someone asks you to help communicate an initiative, what do you do? Do you immediately find yourself coming up with cool ideas about how to gain attention and generate coverage? If you do that, you’re doing your clients a disservice. You’re guilty of failing to plan - of putting tactics before strategy.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in Strategy, public relations | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

AideRSS Google Reader Extension – Filter Your Reading, Easily

July 20, 2008 – 4:52 pm

The AideRSS Google Reader extension makes it easy to separate the wheat from the chaff in your RSS subscriptions by integrating AideRSS’ PostRank™ system within Google Reader.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 301 | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Many Computers; One Life – How I Synchronize My Information

July 16, 2008 – 11:16 pm

I have two computers at home – my desktop and my laptop – and my work computer. All of these used to have different sets of information on them. Different files, different contacts, different everything. No longer. This is how I keep my life in sync.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in how to | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

How To Set Up A Simple Online Monitoring System

June 25, 2008 – 3:46 pm

Before your organization launches a blog, before you start playing with Facebook, before you even think about Twitter, you should be listening to what people are saying about you.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 201, how to, social media | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (7)

14 Plugins To Improve Your WordPress Blog

June 3, 2008 – 11:58 pm

Here are 14 plugins I currently use on DaveFleet.com and why you might want to consider using them.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 301, blogging | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)

Plurk - Ooooooh Another Shiny New Twitter-Like Thing!

June 2, 2008 – 9:48 pm

…this is good because, y’know, we can’t move to any of the existing Twitter competitors like Pownce or Jaiku when Twitter’s down, right? We obviously need another tool to fill the gap left by… oh wait… there isn’t a gap.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in social networks | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)

HubSpot’s Press Release Grader - Rate Your Press Release

June 1, 2008 – 11:17 pm

Press Release Grader is a simple, free tool that analyzes your press releases and gives you some ideas on how to improve them.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 301, news release | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Live-Blogging Mesh Day 1 - What Did You Think Of CoverItLive?

May 22, 2008 – 7:22 am

Twitter’s reliability recently has been… well… awful. During the introductions to the opening day of Toronto’s Mesh Conference yesterday, I suddenly thought: “What happens if Twitter goes down (again) today?” On a whim, I decided to give live-blogging tool Cover It Live a try.

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in Mesh08, blogging | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Five Tools To Base Your Online Life Around

April 28, 2008 – 11:07 pm

I’ve written before about my social media life and the tools I use, but which of those are the most useful, and why?
Here are the five tools I base my online presence around, and why I think you should too.
Google Reader
I “subscribe” to several hundred blogs. Every day I go to one site - Google [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in 301, social media | Comments (9)

Twitter Clouds - What Do You Write About?

April 14, 2008 – 9:49 pm

What do you write about?
Tweet Clouds, an created by John Krutsch and Jared Stein, lets you answer that question.
The tool creates a “tag cloud” - a visual representation of what you write about - for your Twitter posts. More common words are displayed in a larger font, so it’s easy to see your [...]

By Dave Fleet | Also posted in Twitter, social media | Comments (1)