ifttt.com (IF This Then That) is a service allowing automation of interaction between your other services. You create rules (called “tasks” and “recipes”) to be run automatically when a certain condition is true. For instance, each time a new post is made on your blog make a new tweet [...]
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Cantina and Combined Jewish Philanthropies have submitted JewishBoston.com to Forrester’s Groundswell Awards. As a social media award it only makes sense that the awards themselves are socially enabled: you can view our JewishBoston.com entry here, as well as rate and review it. We encourage you to do so; we’re [...]
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Cantina’s team of consultants continues to write articles on new technologies, business applications, and things we find interesting. For the middle of the summer July was a surprisingly busy month of posting with 19 articles released. They’re compiled here for your convenience: July 29: JewishBoston.com Case Study: Bringing [...]
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Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) used to send email newsletter containing news, announcements and invitations from many synagogues, service groups, organizations and businesses. The newsletter was so long, unwieldy and unfocused that most recipients didn’t find it useful. CJP wanted to deliver better and more relevant information to Jewish [...]
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Having finally jumped on the blogging bandwagon and seeing the business results, I am now considering becoming active on Twitter. I find myself asking the questions everyone must contemplate at the start of a new social media engagement – how to tweet, what to tweet, when to tweet, [...]
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June was a busy month on the blog, with posts from over over half the company (and guest) on themes ranging from deep technical topics, reviews of events, business issues, goings-on at Cantina and things are team members are passionate about. Here are all 19 posts from the [...]
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Here is a recent article on the Appmarket.tv site titled Facebook: 1.65 Billion Likes of TV Shows – Recommendation Engine on Steroids which loops in factoids from sources including Inside Facebook, Lost Remote and Endemol to discuss how viewers are using social channels to discover programming they value. [...]
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The Challenges of Designing Apps for Multiple Channels Organizations are struggling with common app development challenges across delivery channels. The challenges include: Re-purposing existing content and creative assets across channels Enabling multi-channel delivery Defining technical practices and design principles, and Building client side and server side functionality that [...]
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Practical Mobile Video: Best Practices and Case Studies is a breakfast panel discussion organized by Cantina and Brightcove. Three local mobile video experts will speak and answer questions about the practical aspects of deploying mobile video. The discussion is expected to be interactive and lively, without any presentations: [...]
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Technology investment is starting to return to normal business cycles, and financial services and retail are once again leading the way with new and emerging technologies like online video, mobile, social media, and new technology frameworks like Ruby and Grails. As firms look to finalize 2011 budgets, it [...]
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