Biznik Article: Combat Spam on Your Wordpress Site
I recently published on Biznik about spam prevention on your wordpress powered website. Take a look here!
What’s all this Buddypress Talk?
Bloggers and web pros alike are buzzing about this open source endeavor called Buddypress. Buddypress is an add on to your Wordpress MU (multi-user) install that adds a dynamic, extensible, and robust social networking aspect to your site. You can have user profiles, feeds, commenting and many of the other fun goodies that come along with a social media site. I can see this as being a very powerful tool for small groups and associations who want to keep in touch online. For now Buddypress is still in Beta but it is already a powerful tool in use by some very interesting groups. I am excited to see where it will go and how I can use it in future projects.
Here is a video of Andy Peatling- the leader of Buddypress giving a presentation of Buddypress in action:
The Social Media Landscape: A Detailed Guide
I found this at CMO.com and though it was very interesting. There are a lot of social media sites, bookmarking sites and aggregating sites out there and this is a great way to lay them all out. A lot of people are asking about the validity or effectiveness of a certain outlet. For instance, “Should I be using _______<—Insert social media outlet” My answer at first is always “It depends”. Well this goes a little deeper and really digs into the specificity of each site.
Our focus is mostly on development and design but we often integrate social media into websites. People want to know what works and what doesn’t. It really depends on what your goals are. Determine your goals before you start your social networking and online marketing. This will save you a lot of time. Unless you have a larger team, you can’t participate fully in every single one. It’s better to just pick 1 and build on that. Don’t participate in another until you think you can handle it.
Here’s the goods:
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Wordpress: Technical Support Plugin
If you are a design agency or webmaster with a lot of clients using Wordpress this is a great plugin. The plugin allows your clients to contact you for support inside the Wordpess admin. This is a great way to stay connected with your clients and encourage a line of communication with them!
Email Setup Tutorial Roundup (Media Temple)
This post serves as a reference for how to set up your email on several different devices and email programs wether your website is hosted on Media Temple or with Creation-1.
Set Your Email up With:
View222.com Site Launch
We have launched the website for the new modern apartment building in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle View 222. The site serves as a home-base for renters info and building photos as well as a way to contact the management to set up appointments and ask questions. Take a look! http://View222.com
StylisticFunk.com Site Launch
We are proud to announce the launch of a job in the works for quite a few months. Stylistic Funk is a hip purveyor of urban fashion, art and music and we worked together with the talented designers at Artjocks in LA to develop this website and integrate it into the Genus online business solution. The end product is a a great online store with all the bells and whistles! Browse through the catalogs at http://stylisticfunk.com you may just find something you like!
Biznik Article- How To: Choose a Web host
I recently published an article on Biznik titled How To: Choose a Web Host. Take a look and hopefully it will help you make a more informed decision!
Blog with your mobile device!
This runs right in line with the previous post about how mobile devices will soon be the primary way people connect to the internet. You can now maintain and blog on your Wordpress site using your mobile device. If you have an Android powered phone, a Blackberry or an iphone you can conveniently use an app to add posts and edit content on the fly! Watch the videos to learn more.
Wordpress for Android:
Wordpress for iphone:
Wordrpress for Blackberry:
Did You Know?
One of my favorite conversations to have with people is about where we are now technology wise and where things can possibly be in the future. I love to hear people’s ideas about how technology will shape our future and interactions. I saw this video by XPLANE and thought it was very interesting. I’m a sucker for info-graphics so this one really caught my eye. It makes me realize that we are really in the middle of a whirlwind. I don’t think that history has ever seen a time in which technology evolved so rapidly!