http://guinevere.ca blog and lifestream of Guinevere Orvis Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:37:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://guinevere.ca/media/technology/facebook-vanity-urls-take-two http://guinevere.ca/media/technology/facebook-vanity-urls-take-two#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:12:02 +0000 Guinevere http://guinevere.ca/?p=1585 The first round of Facebook vanity URLs proved to be a huge success. Within minutes of the feature being made available, Mashable reported that over 200,000 usernames had been registered. If you didn’t pick up a URL the first night, head over to Facebook.com/username to register one now. But what if you were trying to [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/technology/facebook-vanity-urls-take-two/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/marketing/happy-birthday-from-offtopic http://guinevere.ca/media/marketing/happy-birthday-from-offtopic#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:26:21 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=246 I just received a happy birthday email from Offtopic.com — one of the largest forums on the internet. I hadn’t been to the website in months. Its very existence had slipped into the recesses of my mind. But today, they sent me a simple, automated email just wishing me a happy birthday. Setting up an [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/marketing/happy-birthday-from-offtopic/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/marketing/8-domain-name-ideas-for-people-named-sandi-jones http://guinevere.ca/media/marketing/8-domain-name-ideas-for-people-named-sandi-jones#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:12:23 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=124 Last week at the Geek Girl Dinner one of the points of discussion was about personal branding and the importance of owning your own domain name that is associated with you. One of the women in the group (Sandi Jones) brought up the difficulty of purchasing your own name as a domain if you have [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/marketing/8-domain-name-ideas-for-people-named-sandi-jones/feed 2 http://guinevere.ca/media/content/5-ways-to-retain-newsletter-subscribers http://guinevere.ca/media/content/5-ways-to-retain-newsletter-subscribers#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:37:36 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=90 Over the years I’ve subscribed to so many newsletters that my mailbox has become overcrowded. I find that I am not able to read all newsletters, so I’ve been undergoing a massive unsubscribe process for the large majority of the newsletters that I receive. Since I write and deploy newsletters myself, I took note of [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/content/5-ways-to-retain-newsletter-subscribers/feed 0