At their Facebook Marketing Conference today, Facebook announced some tweaks on how ads show up in your feed. Marketers: there's a new-ish package you can buy into called Reach Generator (which I think is buying a package so your ads go to all the spots in the graphic shown here) as well as something called Facebook Premium. Which sounds expensive...
Here's my pink shirt for Pink Shirt Day in Canada.
About Pink Shirt Day: In 2007, two Nova Scotia students decided to take action after witnessing a younger student being bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. The students bought 50 pink t-shirts and encouraged schoolmates to wear them and send a powerful message of solidarity to the bully. [Vancouver newsradio station] CKNW were inspired by the story and to date have raised more than $300,000 for Boys & Girls Clubs anti-bullying programs with the sales of Pink Shirt Day T-Shirts.
This past week I called my Mom.
I'm probably not alone in feeling like I don't do it enough.
So consider this a tip. Not an overly complicated one, just one that will likely do many of us some good, personally &/or professionally. Call Your Mom.
I hope to do it again this weekend.
If you are exceptionally keen, or have that much time on your hands, you can comment about how it goes, talking to Mom.
And no, my Mom isn't Jeremy Lin.
She knows who he is, and although she's proud of him, it hurt a bit when his 7th win in a row as a starter came as a buzzer-beating 3-pointer against her homies, the Raptors.
Just wanted to give the guy some Blog props for his second straight Sports Illustrated cover. Y'know, because if I don't blog about him, no one'll know who he is...
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, a Christian tradition of 40 days of giving something up.
A few years ago I spoke with a Catholic friend about Lent. I asked her what she was giving up. Her answer: "I'm not telling you."
That stuck with me. So I too am not telling you, at least not as a web broadcast.
Not sure how much a stickler I'll be to this. I'm such a pushover when people ask me about stuff. So if you ask me in person I'll probably tell you.
The overall principle to me is that our practice, any practice, and especially a religious one that is fraught with purpose and meaning... if it's worth doing (in this case, refraining from doing) there should be some visible fruit. So I hope there's some fruit, as far as strength of character or peace or something, that's visible in the thing Dana & I have agreed to practice for Lent this year.
This Coldplay reference is because Vancouver radio station Cfox.com hosted a poll for what people are giving up for Lent. The runaway leader so far: Coldplay.
The morning team was joking that Coldplay is the Nickelback of the UK.
Please discuss.
Pancake Day, aka Pancake Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras and Shrove Tuesday, is a Christian church tradition to clear the pantry of food the day before Ash Wednesday, the first of 40 days of fasting or giving something up that you find tempting, binding or distracting. Pancakes were often what was made to clear up stock of stuff that'd otherwise go bad. In short, though, to me it's totally the annual religiously justified excuse to pig out and party.
So it surprises me that there isn't more going on out there as far as deals and such. Unless I didn't see them. Till I see any better I plan to take my family to enjoy a crazy Dutch pancake or three.
Anyone seeing anything interesting out there for Fat Tues? Please comment!
Ask a simple question, get a freaky big chart...
Now that I've crossed over to the dark side and am computing on a PC (or WAS I on the dark side?...) I asked my brother Hin, a network admin in Toronto, about anti-virus software. He sent me this handy-dandy article with charts and numbers to gloss over.
There's an anchored link to Final Verdict and I totally skipped to that.
Wouldn't you?
Anyway, thought this post might help anyone who's faced with this (computer) life-threatening dilemma that's solve-able in a freebie way.
Incidentally, my brother went with Avira and AVG.
I've installed Avira and nothing else. So far no whammies.
Great that they all start with "av" so those of us who remember things by first letters can be that much more confused.
For what it's worth, a weekend shout-out to "brother" Jeremy Lin for making the Time Magazine cover. Yup, I'm a relatively late bandwagon jumper.
The stat on the cover is amazing.
So is his record: 7-0 in his first 7 games for the New York Knicks, who weren't winning so much before the Linsanity.
By many accounts, a solid example on so many fronts: doing what you do really well & taking care of your own stats, at the same time getting your team to win, giving Tebow-esque appropriate props to God & Christian faith.
I wish this guy well. Me and a whole lot of the Internet.
Was kinda wondering why Sulu was making me crack up so much on FaceBook. I was looking for something else (the fridge one) but this'll do... And here's the deal on Takei-san...
"Best known as Mr. Sulu from 'Star Trek,' George Takei has new role, but it's not on TV or in the movies, it's on Facebook. Each day, Takei with the help of his fans shares musings from all over the Internet. ("Star Trek" and "Star Wars" jokes feature prominently.) His posts are showing up in newsfeeds more and more and the actor has more than million "likes" on his Facebook wall, out ranking even Captain Kirk himself."
I ripped this off the Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-pictures-the-best-of-george-tak...
Likely old news for my serious nerd friends but I just found the iPhone app for Zyzzyva, the word study pgm by Scrabble(r) nerds and mainly for Scrabble nerds. A great looking App, Michael Thelen + friends!
S'more Yukon ads, giving this glorious sunny day in the Lower Mainland a run for its money.
Doing some portfolio updating, happened to get these billboard PDFs from Art Director & good friend David Yu.
Posting an ad idea I had for the Alpha course.
My computer's giving me the date for a file I just created as "tomorrow".
That's our Sasha: saving it for a dramatic occasion to get us choked up even more, just like being born on Chinese New Years Eve.
Interesting context for this slogan to creep up again, with the Occupy hubbub in London. I think u can click a link above for the article, which is quite BBC.
