Social Media
Day 20 - Automatically post to BlueSky
Since the 2024 election, the BlueSky social network has exploded in popularity, and appears to be replacing the cesspool that used to be Twitter. I'm not much of a social media person -- I much prefer hanging out in smaller spaces with people with shared interests. If you're like me, I would highly recommend finding a Mastodon server that caters to your interests, where you're sure to find rewarding conversations.
Day 15 - Automatically post to Mastodon or other remote APIs
The ECA Helper module provides an action to make an arbitrary HTTP post to any URL. That's all that's necessary to post to Mastodon from Drupal, if you have a Mastodon account. I've been using this functionality to automatically post these advent calendar posts for the past week.

The scientific method and website effectiveness
How do you know if your website is working effectively? What does that even mean?

Do you REALLY know the firm you're partnering with? Get to know Freelock!
How much do you know about the firm you're partnering with for web development and DevOps? Watch our quick video to get to know our founder John Locke better!
Website Reach
The organizations that use their website to their fullest-potential are the ones that use their website to forever find new customers, new partners, and new employees. The savviest organizations use their website as a listening tool, respond to their communities’ questions and answering them in a timely and accurate fashion. These organizations reap the benefits of an ever-growing community, be it in new customers, new partnerships, or even new staff.
How many new customers has your website found for you?
While there are many ways to grow a business in today’s society—one path has shown to be more-effective than others. This approach has quickly grown some companies, while others have not found their footing. This approach uses the new technologies to their most-effective. If done correctly, these tools can grow a company without spending any of the company’s money. This approach is called “Content Marketing”.
Follow up (+1!)
Illustrating the point I made previously about the value of Google+ integration, ITProPortal reports on a growing trend of businesses devoted to selling Google +1s to highlight company listings in
Google+ for small business
The recent beta release of Google+ provides a good opportunity to revisit a topic in which our clients have expressed a keen and consistent interest- leveraging social media to promote small business.
Is Your Business Ready for a (non-Twitter) Community?
After receiving multiple requests for a follow-up to my anti-Twitter rant a few months back, I've decided to try and do just that.
Ask Freelock: What's this Twitter thing, and how do you use it?
George asks, why is everybody talking about Twitter?
Is Anyone Else Tw-ired of Twitter
I consider myself a pretty tech savvy kid, you may even call me a mid-term adopter of all things tech. But there is one project that has offended me more over the past few months that has finally pushed me to post a blog against it.

