NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel - Home How to back up your social media data Facebook now lets you download all the data from your profile into a folder on your laptop or desktop. Facebook allows users to download their profiles through account setttingsIn WordPress, go to Tools, Export and choose the posts you want to exportAdobe Air app Flump lets you backup Flickr photos (Mashable) -- Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year's Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end -- at the hands of machines, of course? Well, we weathered that storm and then some. Think of it as stockpiling food and building a fallout shelter for the 21st century. We have a ton of information, photos and memories scattered around the web that we would be loathe to lose, and while it's unlikely that the entire Internet is going to come crashing down in the next week or so, it still might be wise to put some of that stuff in an iron box for safe keeping. Read on, and Christina Warren and I will show you how to... ... back up your Facebook 1). ... back up your tweets
10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop I’m fed up with Photoshop and its one billion rarely-used features. How about a simple photo-editor that’s quick, easy, and doesn’t cost a thousand dollars. Fortunately, there’re tons of web-based photos editors popping up. Most are crap, but some are promising. Check out these free web-based Photoshop alternatives: Arguably, Picnik is the most popular web-based photo editor. Very polished interface. Part of the Aviary suite of creative apps, Phoenix also offers layers and compositing. Adobe was a little late to the web-apps game, but this is a pretty good first try. Nice, simple, and clear interface, with no ads at all. flautR offers a cornucopia of image tools, boasting thousands of photo effects. Another ad-free editor. Hmm… looks like Pixenate was “inspired” by Pic Resize. Another simple interface. An example of how ugly these apps can get. Let me know if I’ve missed any other good ones. If you liked this post, please bookmark it on del.icio.us.
FGFR as a target in lung cancer Here’s an interesting paper in a new journal I recently signed up for, Science and Translational Medicine. The journal provides little snapshots of how research can potentially be applied to real life disease. Here’s a snippet from this particular abstract: “Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in developed countries. Now, squamous cell histology tends to be more associated with smokers than non-smokers and chemotherapy has pretty much been the bedrock of treatment for this group, although it should be noted that in general, currently available therapies either have weak activity or are specifically contraindicated, as in the case of bevacizumab. Compare this with non-squamous histology, particularly adenocarcinomas, where new molecular targeted therapies have begun to evolve that have extended life and the population tends towards more non-smokers. They also found something else of note:
Social Marketing Blog / @flowtown This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck!
3 New Bookmarking Sites and What They Mean for You Bookmarking is a great way to save things for later follow-up or to revisit on a regular basis. While your browser’s built-in bookmarks make for a quick and easy visit to your favorite sites, external bookmarking sites can extend to images, quotes, articles and more. If you use bookmarks often, you may need a better way to organize them and incorporate them effectively into your workday. In this article I’ll highlight three bookmarking tools that can help boost your productivity. #1: Licorize The real difference in Licorize is that it is not only a bookmarking tool, but also a collaborative platform for “web workers” and their teams. Available connections include Evernote, LinkedIn, Instapaper, Twitter, Dropbox, WordPress and Google Reader. Although Licorize is the only one of these tools that requires a paid account, it’s one of my favorites and therefore is first on the list. Licorize prides itself on being a bookmarking service "for the web worker tribe." #2: Diigo #3: Pinterest
A Quick Guide to Social Bookmarking This is the first post in the series A Quick Guide to Collaborative Media Tools. The purpose is to give an introduction to tools that are helpful when doing collaborative work. The first post is about social bookmarking. What’s the problem? This risk alone is reason enough for you to start saving your bookmarks in a way that is safer to you, but also storing them in a way that might benefit your co-workers. This post is about collaborative and social bookmarking. How does it work? Isn’t tagging painful? Personally, it took me about a year to come up with a tagging system that I managed to remember. Finding your personal ontology takes time and I suggest that you write down (on a post-it on your desk or desktop) the tags that you really want to base a library on. Why? Being part of the bigger picture – the ambient awareness You’re not alone. The flipside of this ambient awareness is, of course, infostress. What happens when these services shut down? UPDATE! Image credit: pengrin CC:BY-NC
Mass., N.H., Take Aim At Bone Marrow Registry Bone marrow registries are usually noble efforts to find donors with the right genetic match to save the life of a terminally ill person, but one such program in New England is under investigation by attorneys general in two states. There are allegations of misuse of funds, including spending $40,000 to $50,000 a week on female models to staff donor-recruitment tables. If New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney has it right, the Caitlin Raymond International Registry, part of the sprawling UMass Memorial Health Care system, is an organization run amok. (The UMass Memorial Health Care system is a private, not-for-profit organization, not affiliated with the University of Massachusetts.) hide captionNatasha Smahlei, a model, works at the Caitlin Raymond International Registry exhibit in October during the New England Business Expo at the DCU Center in Worcester. Paul Kapteyn/Courtesy of www.telegram.com Using Models But it isn't just their recruiting that has drawn unwanted attention.
40 New and Trendy Free Social Media Bookmark Icon Sets Resources February 25, 2010 Social Media Bookmark Icons serve as significant design touches in websites and blogs. They help visitors bookmark their favorite posts and articles in any social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and others, ensuring that they can get back to your site directly for future reference. Using these resources, bloggers are given the chance to promote their posts. Furthermore, they add beauty, artistry and uniqueness in websites-which is, of course, expected in web 2.0. Various social media icons have emerged in the web for promotional purposes. Bevel Dark Social Icons 10 icons set against a black bevel background. Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set Twenty icons are included in this set. Socialize Icons The set includes 12 icons that look like decals. 3D Social Media Icon Pack These 3D icons will pop out and remind people to subscribe or share your blog. Free Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set Social Sketches: Exclusive Free Hand-Sketched Icon Set
Co-branding gone bad | Insights & Ingenuity Co-branding is a partnership formed between two brands which have complementary audiences and profiles (or that’s the idea). The jist is that each brand will reinforce the other’s favorable attributes and bolster their respective weaknesses. The two superpowers will collide and rise to the top of the consideration set, acting in cooperation for the sake of differentiation. There are many cases in favor of joint venture co-branding; it can introduce a mature brand to new markets, help brands further penetrate existing markets and rejuvenate the lagging interest of fickle consumers. Co-branding programs can be designed for flights of time in an effort to grab short term sales gains as with a promotion or limited time offer. Programs can also be set up as part of a longer term integrated marketing strategy designed to build loyalty. There are plenty of valid business reasons to explore a co-branding partnership of either short or long form. There’s just too much risk.
100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club. Branding one’s self in an online environment built on entropy and go-baby-go is difficult at best, and impossible if you forget to take your happy pills. If you like this one, please don’t hesitate to stumble, blog, digg, bookmark, and otherwise promote the hell out of this. Listening Build ego searches using Technorati and Google Blogsearch Comment frequently (and meaningfully) on blogs that write about you and your posts Don’t forget the conversations hiding in Twitter (use Summize.com) and Friendfeed. Home Base Home base is your blog/website. Passports Passports are accounts on other social networks and social media platforms. Outposts Build RSS outposts on Facebook. Content Create new content regularly. Conversation Commenting on other people’s blogs builds awareness fast. Community Face to Face Promotion Become a StudioPress Affiliate