This piece was produced to help promote the new website being developed by Yurrow at Yurrow.com. The animation uses 3 scenarios to illustrate the uses of the site and it’s benefits. The piece was produced and animated by Jason R. Coleman. The art was provided by Charlie Wetherington. If you would like more info about this project or if you are in need of creative for your next creative advertising or marketing project, please contact Extreme Measures Creative at info@extrememeasurescreative.com.

I recently had an issue with a new Facebook page. I created a new page to have for interacting with friends who may have interest in Melaleuca and its benefits for your home and home business.  I have a website that deals with this, but if you’re not on Facebook, you’re missing out on so many social possibilities that it could hurt your business. After I created the page, Facebook asked me to invite friends to get the page started. One of the ways to do this was by importing an email address list. I had a good email address list from Gmail and decided to import it and invite folks on that list. That’s exactly what I did. In doing so, I come to find out later through friends who are on that list that some of them received that invite in their email anywhere from 6 to 12 times! That’s enough to make anybody not want to “like” my new page wouldn’t you think. I know if I received a bunch of emails like that, I’d certainly not follow through even if it was a friend. Alas, I picked up no new “likes” on the page from that email invite process. Gotta love it when a friendly process actually shoots you in the foot.

Anyway, after sorting through “known bug issues” on Facebook’s site and noodling through all the time-wasting topics that didn’t apply, I finally found an area where you can report Facebook bugs. You can go here and report your specific bug. Of course Facebook basically says in it’s disclaimer that they don’t get to answer all email and it’s likely they’ll never do anything about it, but at least you have done your part in reporting the issue as it is. Now I’m not one of those people who feels like I have a right to use Facebook and they have to provide me with everything I want. If you use a service like this, you should expect errors and issues like any other piece of software. So, if you are one of those people, get off your high horse and thank Facebook for helping you find all your old high school classmates.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but in the Nashville market of Comcast, they have initiated some horrible functions. I’m now prevented from fast forwarding through on demand TV shows. Cable needs to find another way to provide advertisers value and still allow viewers to see what they prefer to see. How come YouTube has figured this out and Comcast is still fumbling around trying to catch up?

I really need to get one of these. My wife and I recently had some expensive keys crushed when we left them on top of the car and headed down the street. Of course they didn’t come of until we got onto a much busier street, then, when they came off, the were quickly crushed by cars behind us. I really hope the reprogramming thing works.

I love a good hack that fixes an issue…

Hyper Mini HDMI cable…Great! $39.95…Not Great!!! And…not everyone has an iPhone!!!

Geek Beat TV’s Cali Lewis gives you the facts on today’s tech. Leave your comments on this episode in the comments below.

If you are in the market for a fun little camera, you may be interested to see this review by KnopTop.

Personally, I wouldn’t purchase this for myself due to the sync problem.

If you are a user of Mac mail then you know very well it’s limitations out of the box. Luckily there are a lot of folks who find work-arounds for issues that should be in the program already. One of those is how the program handles inserting a link into an email message. Mac Mail’s way is cumbersome and really just a pain if you put links in emails frequently. I’ve found a great tutorial at Macsparky.com that explains how to create a work around that will allow you to enter a link with keyboard shortcuts. Have a look here and make sure to thank this guy.

Leave a comment or just let me know if this worked for you.

Hey Everyone,

Have you noticed your business email traffic lately? Notice the etiquette involved and the procedural tasks we all take slightly for granted?

Let’s not take them for granted anymore. Let’s talk about follow-up email traffic. For example, if you have a project you are working on that requires several people to be notified, and the project goes on for a period of time, then I’m sure you’ve seen the accidental “reply-to-alls” about something personal by accident or the replying to a previous string using an old email. Well here’s how to eliminate that confusion when sorting through your mass of emails (if you’re like me).

The infamous SUBJECT LINE!

Typically when sending an email, a subject line describing the contents of your email is entered. This helps everyone involved and the receivers of your email who view their mail in a preview pane determine whether or not to open this email and if it is important. If the subject line is not entered or does not reflect the content of the email, it wastes time and energy, not to mention annoying your recipients.

So fix that problem. Whenever you send an email, always enter a subject line that is appropriate. For example if it’s an email about a quote on a creative job, put something like “Quote for Package Cover Design.” All recipients are warned what the content of that email is. If it is important to them, then they are more likely to open the email. In business communications, it is never appropriate to leave a subject line blank.

Say you’ve been working on a project for a while and many emails have passed back and forth. Have you noticed that upon a reply, you see “RE: Quote for Package Cover Design.” The “RE” is important and keeps an email string going on a particular topic within your email client. If the subject line gets changed unnecessarily, then that project string gets jacked up and is less compact and means you have to search for all the emails on a particular project. Not productive. If the email is a follow up to that project, leave the subject line alone.

On the other hand, you’ve all seen the email that follows later on that string that says “RE: Quote for Package cover design.” and the content in the email is for an entirely different project that should be on an entirely different subject line string. This is indicative of someone who dug up an old email just to get the email address of the person they were contacting and didn’t take the time to start a new string with a new subject line.

When digging up old emails, make sure to change the subject line and ensure you are sending it to the correct people.

The subject line of emails is a great way of tracking communications on projects and many more uses. Don’t abuse the subject line and you will save time and productivity.

Please feel free to leave your comments or your email nightmares in the comments below. as always, if you have something you want information about, I’ll be glad to do the research and let you know what I find.