Profile: Angela Alcorn


Ange is an Internet Studies & Journalism graduate who spends way too much time messing with social networks (see AngelaAlcorn.com or @smange).

Latest from Angela Alcorn

  • How 3 Companies Turned Social Media PR Disasters Into Happy Endings

    April 17, 2012

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    The Internet makes it so easy for customers to get the word out about great businesses they’ve found and other things they really like. Conversely, it’s also quick to promote and pass around evidence of awful customer service. If you ever make a huge PR blunder, even in your bricks-and-mortar business or something more personal in nature, you can be sure someone will get proof of it online in no time.


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  • Improve Your Mac Laptop Battery Life With Watts [OSX]

    April 13, 2012

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    Laptop batteries are tricky bits of hardware. You have to plug them in to charge them up, but you can’t leave them plugged in too long or they’ll be damaged. You can’t always let them run out of charge completely and if you so much as look at them askance they’ll give up on life just before you’ve saved your work. You know, they can just be generally painful items when it comes down to it.


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  • Kickstart Your Summer Fitness & Weight Loss With FitBit

    April 12, 2012

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    With summer approaching, many of us are starting to think a little more seriously about our weight. In particular, it’s that time of year when people worry about how they’ll look in those summer outfits. If this is you and you’re looking for a new way to keep track of your health goals, then it’s time to check out Fitbit. Fitbit is best known for their premium step-trackers and other such intelligent devices.


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  • Spotify Adds A Play Button For Websites [Updates]

    April 12, 2012

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    Music giant Spotify has recently created a play button that webmasters can put on their websites in order to play Spotify music. The play button integrates Spotify music with blogs, websites and more, leading to a more social web music experience. Webmasters and bloggers can add the play button widget to their page easily, which [...]


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  • 5 Top Sites To Download Free Kids Music That You’ll Love

    April 10, 2012

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    If you’ve got kids, you’ve no doubt thought about how you might be able to increase the size of their music collection for free. I mean, who wants to listen to the same CD of nursery rhymes over and over again, right? So in order to keep your sanity while your kids listen to their favourite songs, the best trick is to have more of them – and the higher quality you can manage to find the better.


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  • 5 Top Free Ways To Learn How To Speak French (Or Any Other Language)

    April 5, 2012

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    So you’re thinking of heading to Paris for a holiday but you’re not sure how far you’ll get with your limited French once you’re done ordering your first croissant? Never fear, the Internet is here. There are thousands of great free sites available to help you learn French. The only real trick is finding the best ones! Here’s five of the very best free online ways to learn French.


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  • The Top 4 Facebook Page Admin Annoyances Made Easy

    April 3, 2012

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    When you’re setting up a Facebook page for your business or favourite local organisation you usually think it’s going to be relatively straightforward – especially if you’re a technically-minded person to begin with. However, there seem to be several steps in the process of getting things properly set up that are not at all intuitive and can be quite irritating to work out.


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  • Top 5 Places To Wax Philosophical Online

    March 30, 2012

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    There are days when you just feel like you’ve got great questions about the world which just need to be asked. Your mind is clear and the question just jumps in to your head unbidden: What if I…? Why do we…? How does this…? Would anyone be able to…? The question is there and you just need to get it in front of a willing audience and get people talking about it. Where do you go?


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