Passing Variables

As a direct marketer I often find myself in the position where we need to pass data from one page to the next. The problem is with many vendors they do not allow you direct access to the source code for dynamic pages. The workaround that we have used for many clients is to pass variables from page to page using the query string (URL) and JavaScript.

I’ve included a code snippet that makes this easy and some examples of how you can use the data once passed.

Feeding the Twitter Beast

I was not an early adopter of Twitter. The idea of micro-blogging about how my day is going and what I am doing this very second always seemed like a huge waste of time. I think the basic flaw with the service is in the way that they phrase the initial question to new users… “What are you doing right now?” This incessive question can be endless and there are certainly people that answer it with what type of sandwich they are having for lunch or that they are feeling ________ (verb) right now.

Facebook Sync

I am used to building my contact lists using Microsoft Outlook and there are many legacy tools to make that easy including Plaxo and the LinkedIn toolbar. However recently I have had more people connect with me using Facebook. I recently ran across this application for Mac OS X called Facebook Sync. It scans your Facebook account’s friend list and compares it against your Apple address book and allows you to add new contacts and fill in different or missing information.

What’s really pretty cool is that it can also sync profile photos which makes it really easy to add photos to all of my contacts on my iPhone.

Check out the program by clicking here to download.