Articles about technology for genealogy.
As the lead administrator for Pollak Library’s Facebook Page, there are serious changes I would like to see Facebook make in its next upgrade or redesign to Facebook Pages. These are not cosmetic changes. These are missing features and functionality that seriously impair our ability to effectively manage our organizational Facebook Page and our relationship […]
What I’d like to see changed on Facebook Pages – Part 1 Read More »
TechnologyWhile setting up the Fan Page for Pollak Library, I kept racking my brain over how to update the Page’s Status with our Twitter account, which is often fed by our blog via the WordPress Twitter Pools plugin. Now, your immediate response is probably that I just need to install the Twitter application for Facebook.
Selectively feeding Tweets to a Facebook Profile and Fan Page Read More »
TechnologyI am bad about using and following through with Google Analytics. I install the code snippets on every site I develop, but then I just kind of forget about it, unless it’s for a company with whom I’m employed. They usually have their own marketing people who run with and analyze the data. But, as
Interpreting Google Analytics Read More »
TechnologyAncestry.com has released a new browser toolbar, which allows you to save web page links and attach them to an individual in your Ancestry family tree. I just down downloaded and installed the Firefox version, but haven’t had time to actually try it out yet.
New Ancestry toolbar Read More »
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