Processing or Thinking?

Are you new to Twitter? Let me help with this 3 minutes tutorial in your first steps on how to write ang the benefits of it.

Before start, make sure you know what is it created for and what are you intended to do with it. In my case, I created my account because I am a Social Media lover and mostly because I work with it. Also I want to gather the most followers as possible and spread the word in 140 characters.

IMHO Twitter has naturally created it’s own etiquete, but always know that you are delaing with people, and not with machines. Please, make sure to have in mind that every follower is a person!

Lets go to the tips and start following and have some followers to gain popularity.

TIP 1: You have only 140 characters to type in and send it out.

TIP 2: Follow people you are interested in.

TIP 3: Write what you want to spread out and what you think people will like to read.

TIP 4:  Download and install a client software to help you read all the microposts, I use Tweet Deck and finf it simple and useful.

TIP 5:  Go to a Twitter service site that lists all the most relevant people listed in different categories. My preferred one is Twitter Counter.

TIP 6:  In Twitter Counter, find and follow as many people as possible, always related to your interests.

TIP 7:  Always feedback to those that just started following you.

TIP 8: Give credit to those that sends nice stuff. Always retwit or mention the person that originally sent that nice micropost.

TIP 9: Keep your twitter account alive. If you find something interesting, share it on Twitter and mostly, mention those that you think is going to anjoy your micropost.

TIP 10: Follow these simple rules: @username - when you want to mention a user | RT @username - when you want to retwit someone’s twit | D username - when you want to send  a direct message to someone (without sending it to everyone) | RE - when you want to reference a link.

TIP 11: Keep in mind this is a social service and be social, think social and act social.

TIP 12: If you think this post was helpful in some way, please, follow me http://twitter.com/toyoda2k or search for toyoda2k.

Thank you and in the next few days, I’ll post some more interesting tips about twitter.

Toyoda

This post is regarding a project that I am heading at the Office. I am dealing with emails and it’s behavior, and I came up with their bounce information and how it is treated by the email servers, and if they are a standardized for every server, or not. The fact is that even being out there for a long time, emails, are still, not a standardized communication tool, and varies from server to server.

If you first imagined that they were standardized, then you are mostly wrong. I can’t say that it is a fruit salad, but they have so many variations that they can’t just be defined by some simple rules.

Emails are used nowadays as a permanent and necessary tool mostly for communication, dissemination of information, and documentation. If you are a user that send emails but need to understand a little more about the issues regarding it’s deliverability, then you should understand what is Email bounce and it’s variations or if you are sending newsletter and needs to understand a little more on how bounces works and what to do with them, then reading this post will help, but please, it’s not the only truth, it’s just a simple small undestanding about this huge tool called email.

For start, there are two types of known emails bounces:

• Soft Bounces
• Hard Bounces

Soft Bounces are known as for their Temporary condition, such as “Mailbox full”.

Hard bounces are known as for their permanent condition, such as “User unknown”.

Bottom line is that it’s far from an exact science. There are lots of variants and new definitions that means nothing or means the same thing, nut in other words (literally).

Some Mail servers uses techniques to avoid or discourage spammers, or email that they believe that is from a spammer (by deduction). in this case they just reply as an User unknown response, but in most cases the user is known.Another situation is like the Mail servers responses is like: “Uder undefined” and other Mail servers responses are: “User not recognized”. It actually means the same thing, but the system has to be prepared to understand this information, if not, this is going to be just another unknown bounce, which primarily is classified as a Soft Bounce.

To eliminate emails classified as soft bounce from the database, it is better to have a repetition cause, like, sending emails for this specific user, more than once, and in email mkt campanign cases, more than one campaign. If in all of the cases, it bounces as a Soft Bounce, then, it’s better to remove it from the database.

For just an email purpose, try to understand the reason why it bounced and then it is going to be easier for you to make it through. but a few things may be checked at first, like double check the email spelling and if it is a valid email. If everything is ok, then check the bounce information. If nothing seems to be reasonable, then you shoud go to Google.

For an Email marketing campaign, you should check for a few information, is this a sanitized database? if not, you will probably get a lot of hard bounces, don’t feel scary, just sanitize it, in case your mail sender tool does not do it for you automatically, then, make sure you have a email to receive bounces, you certainly will have them, and check whick one are consider soft bounces, to resend it until it goes through.

Remember, it’s not a bible, it’s a professional, with years of road doing that saying what maybe one of the best solutions when dealing with email bounces.

If you didn’t understand a word, please leave a comment.

cheers,

Toyoda

Have you ever had a problem coding a complex CSS for a layout?

If yes, most of your problems are about to end, as the new browsers CSS compatibility will come with this support for css table-related values on board.

Accordingly to the Digital Web Magazine it will be possible to make table like layouts using CSS techniques.

Using the CSS display property, it is possible to include table-relate values, such as: table, table-roll and table-cell. This is going to display the elements with the same characteristics of their HTML table equivalents.

For more information, please visit: Digital Web Magazine or you can visit www.w3schools.com.

And please give me a feedback about this.

Have you tried already? Not yet? Leave a comment below, let me know!

regards,

Toyoda