August 2009

WordPress Thesis Theme Makes Life Better

August 31, 2009

I love it when a WordPress Theme makes my job easier And better yet still retains custom design changes when you upgrade your theme for the latest and greatest functionality.  The Thesis theme available from diythemes.com was developed with that purpose in mind.  Tweak it, bend it, modify it how ever you want, as long [...]

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GoDaddy Integrates Twitter Domain Name Check

August 20, 2009

I needed to point a domain to a new website I am developing, so I logged in to my GoDaddy account and noticed something very interesting on my domain manager screen.  There was a little blue Twitter button to the right. Huh? Is GoDaddy an affiliate of Twitter Or is Twitter paying GoDaddy?

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I Am Totally Disqus ed

August 19, 2009

“Plug in the DISQUS comment system and bring out the best discussion on your website” – from disqus home page We all know the power of comments on our blogs.  They give us a mechanism for discussion, real feedback and personal opinions from our readers.  With comments, we are able to establish a connection and [...]

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Personal Branding Tip – Secure Your Name

August 17, 2009

All about domain names, usernames and email adresses… Make sure You Get Them All! I have a few new projects in the works and one of the first things I do is run extensive searches on name availability.  I search for top level domain names (.com, .net, .org) for the project name or with a [...]

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Twitter Management Stop Follower SPAM

August 15, 2009

When I first signed up with Twitter, there were maybe 800,000 users. Today I believe there is approximately 8 million. With the ever increasing popularity of any network building platform, spam is always an issue. It seems that a lot of folks on twitter are obsessed with the number of followers they can attract, as [...]

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Building Your Business With Social Media

August 14, 2009

Why do owners fail at promoting their business with Social Media? Because its too technically oriented, its time consuming, its a fad, its for kids, its for internet marketers, its not a proven marketing strategy, its this and its that…. A colleague and small business consultant of mine asked me to speak to a few [...]

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a Tiny Thread Woven by Tiny Birds

August 13, 2009

You may or may not know Joshua Schachter but you definitely know his web 2.o app Delicious that was sold to Yahoo awhile back.  Since Josh has joined the team at Google, he still pursues his creative innovations.  His latest gig is A Tiny Thread. A Tiny Thread is a (tiny) Twitter application with a [...]

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How to Get 1M Followers on Twitter

August 11, 2009

First I think getting one million followers on Twitter is a double edged sword.  Yes it may support the fact that you are very popular and people really want to hear what you have to say.  ON the other hand, how can you really pay attention to a million people, especially if your strategy for [...]

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Content is Not King

August 9, 2009

Listening to the quick 20 minute schpeel by John Alanis – I perked up pretty quickly when he mentioned that “Content is Not King”! What!  I paused the video and tried to think about what he was going to say next.  Was he going to talk about that there is so much recycled content out [...]

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The Day My Blog Died

August 9, 2009

OK one huge lesson, REMEMBER to back up your blog’s database.  I run WordPress behind the scenes of this fancy website and when I decided to upgrade to version 2.8, all hell broke loose. Yup… nothing more nerve racking than seeing or “not seeing” all your hard work suddenly remove itself from the webosphere. I [...]

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