DNSTC Launches the Social Media Content Planning Portal

If you are a small business owner, you know that social media is a crucial part of your on-line marketing efforts in order to compete in the global market.  DNSTC has created a social media planning and resources portal that will help small business owners through the entire process.

Every Other Row a Different Color

The following code will allow you to change colors every other row in PHP.

Add the following around the do { loop:

  $cnt = 0;
       do { 
    $color = ($cnt & 1)? "#F8F8F8" : "#FFFFFF";
      $cnt++;

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Add the following to the <tr> tag:

 <tr style="background-color: <?php echo $color; ?>"> 

 

With this example, every other row will be a light grey color and the other row will be white.  The first row starts off being white.

If You Unfriend on Facebook Do You Unfriend in Real Life?

While reading a science teacher magazine, my wife came across an article outlining a scientific study that was performed to see how unfriending someone on Facebook affected real life relationships that she brought to my attention I thought I would share with you.

The study was performed by the University of Colorado in Denver and their findings were quite interesting.  The author of the study, Christopher Sibona, found that 40 percent of people surveyed said they would avoid in real life anyone who unfriended them on Facebook.  Some 50 percent said they would not avoid the person and the remaining 10 percent were unsure.  Women said the would avoid contact more than men.

Furthermore, Sibona did another study in 2010 asking why people unfriended (or un-liked) others and here is what he found out:

• Frequent, unimportant posts.
• Polarizing posts usually about politics or religion.
• Inappropriate posts involving sexist, racist remarks
• Boring everyday life posts about children, food, spouses etc.

You can read the full article here.

Does social networking affect real life situations?  What have you found out with your social networking efforts?