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Sunday, September 27, 2009

verifying blog at technorati | ctbxyj27ev

This post was originally me verifying my blog at technorati but i guess ill explain how i did it... basically i got an account went to verify blog and then made a post with the title and text the verification code below i gave them my RSS feed and Boom! i had a verified blog...

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Click and vote for my Blog!

i found this thing to send a vote for your blog out to Technorati favorites
heres how you can get your own for your blog! [ be sure to click mine above lolz :) ]


Thursday, September 3, 2009

Carter Cole the Guru | Great link bait and viral marketing



We all love ourselves so when i saw this little flash ad that Cisco made i decided i would actually click on it this time. It connected to my webcam took my picture and made this awesome movie. they allow you to share on Facebook as well as Twitter and you can even embed it. This is free advertising and i wanted to make a point of how simple it can be make something everyone is going to want to share and then make it easy to do so. Retweet buttons as well as making sure your pages have the correct markup so Facebook can create a pretty link for you.

this is how my donation page looks when shared in Facebook
cool huh? it has a custom description and title different from what would normally be shared by Facebook.
i use 3 meta tags



so now you know how to add some support to share your page on Facebook and don't forget carter is a total web guru

thanks for the video Cisco! Great marketing

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Carter Tomorrow Fund | linking Wells Fargo to twitter

When i was young i created the Carter Tomorrow Fund and im happy to say its now back!

But i wanted to take it a step further so i found this way cool site http://tarpipe.com/
Tarpipe lets you fire off a bunch of stuff by connecting pipes in workflows. So i make a filter in gmail to forward to my Wells Fargo alerts to the tarpipe workflow email.
Tarpipe workflow to automate banking updates in twitter
and now i get these nice alerts on my twitter http://twitter.com/CarterCole/status/3623058706 everytime i overdraft or my account drops below $20 so all my social networks can know and my friends can donate to keep me from paying overdraft fees
Someone even donated some! so help out and automate your banking alerts on twitter and give some to the fund

Sunday, August 23, 2009

how to link your hulu history to twitter

i wanted a way to tweet my hulu activity and i came across this way i could post to twitter from a rss feed from my blog so i was thinking to myself, self i could use the rss history feed from my hulu account to post my hulu history to my twitter account

this is the solution i came up with

1)


Login to Hulu and go to your profile then the history tab and get the link for your hulu history as rss

the url looks something like this:
http://www.hulu.com/feed/history/username

From hulu.com:


2)


This is the website that does all the work for you
Twitter Feed


Its called twitter feed all you have to do is use oauth to link twitter feed to your twitter account and paste in the rss link and your pretty much done you can change the settings to add a prefix see mine below



and an example of how it shows up in my twitter
automatic post on Twitter