The Chompr - The perfect unitasker for Memorial Day BBQs....

The Chompr - The perfect unitasker for Memorial Day BBQs....

As Im trying to take it easy this Memorial Day weekend, I thought I’d share snippets of some of my favorite blog articles from the past week…

The always-informative Andrea Kalli posts about those pesky  Twitter background upload issues… and I thought it was just me! Andrea compares the two most common fixes.

Formspring’s blog featured a weeklong series of posts, “Online Forms That Convert” – all packed with great tips for assembling effective, user-friendly forms for your website. My fav discussed how to design forms for PPC (pay-per-click) and landing pages, optimized to convert.

P.S.: If you haven’t checked out Formspring… do yourself a favor and visit now – its a fantastic web form service.. none better, in my view.

Unclutterer’s Unitasker Wednesday – this one’s always a chuckle, featuring a real item for sale – a unitasker - an item with a sole and usually ridiculous purpose.  Past Unitasker Wednesday honorees include The Chompr , a contraption intended to tidy up hamburger eating, the iSleep USB pillow – (eh – a pillow that connects to your computer with a USB cable)  and an electric paper plane launcher.  This week:  Poop Freeze Aerosol Freeze Spray.  Didn’t know you needed that, I bet.

Are you a social media holdout? No more excuses… even Pope Benedict XVI has a Facebook page and an iPhone app! (Mashable)

Want to smarten up your Twitter follow list? Check out Mashable’s list of 70+ Authors to Follow on Twitter.

Ok, one more Twitter article – this one walks you through setting up campaigns in Google Analytics to track the success of your Twitter efforts. (Codswallop)

Happy Memorial Day!

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2 Responses to “Weekend Blog Picks: Unitaskers, Twitter Fixes & The Pope’s iPhone App”

  1. Andrea Kalli 24. May, 2009 at 12:43 pm #

    Thank you for the mention, Mary!
    I hope you’re having a great holiday weekend.

    I’m working on my list:
    homemade potato salad..check
    deviled eggs…check
    bbq pork ribs are marinating…check
    homemade cheesecake…check
    gourmet baked beans…check

    Now all I need is cold beer and I’m ready to celebrate!

    Andrea

    • Mary 26. May, 2009 at 9:15 pm #

      Yum- I LOVE potato salad!!! ;-D

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