Jed Wheeler, Training & Developer Relations Manager

  We are happy to announce the introduction of the Involver Developer Community.  Our SML™ customers will be able to take advantage of exclusive information from our 4 new forums including: insider tips, best practices, exclusive exclusive early access to new features prior to public release, sample SML™ code, the ability to connect with other [...]

For a long time now we’ve been clear that our goal for SML™ was to make it a language that can be used anywhere in the social media space.   I’m happy to say that thanks to our ace Engineering team – and  the very talented Akhil Naini in particular – January 2012 marks a [...]

Well it’s that time of year again. People everywhere are chopping down trees and displaying them in their living rooms, kids are making long lists of toys they want, and I can’t seem to find a car pool ride to work that doesn’t include Alvin & the Chipmunks (TM) Christmas carols en route. It truly [...]

Most websites today run on non-secure connections (http instead of https) most of the time – and that’s just fine.  Browsing pictures of cheeseburger-craving cats doesn’t require a secure connection because the user isn’t sharing any sensitive information.  Even e-commerce sites usually only use secure connections for the actual transactions- no one cares what shoes [...]

Facebook’s annual f8 was full of big announcements, from the new Timeline to improved mobile functionality it’s clear that the folks at Facebook have been working hard to improve their platform.  One of the most exciting changes for many users is the coming launch of custom Actions. The fact is that while the “Like” button [...]

At this point pretty much everyone who works in Social Media has read at least a couple articles talking about the role played by Twitter and other social media sites in coordinating and publicizing protest movements around the world. Social media has been alternately credited and blamed for everything from the ouster of Mubarak in [...]

  Last week we discussed the increasing role of social media in Search Engine Optimization. These trends are part of a larger seismic shift that is occurring in the SEO world as both Bing and Google increasingly factor social media weighting into search results. We ended with the observation that the death match between Facebook [...]

A lot of people think of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as something that you add on to a site, maybe with a paid service that re-writes your meta tags and headers for you.  In this approach you build your site, you add content to it, and then the last step is you hire someone to [...]

It’s been an exciting few weeks here at Involver! Our latest development sprints have brought a bunch of new tools to market, including partnerships with Klout and Get Satisfaction. Much has been written about these new apps, so this blog post will concern itself primarily with something different, something that has the potential to powerfully [...]