Forum Participation as an Alternative to Advertising

August 20, 2009

I just read an blog post from Richard Millington over at Fever Bee called When A Short-Cut Takes You In An Opposite Direction.  At the end of the article, he declares “If you want to sponsor a community, that’s fine. It gets your name in front of the right people. But it’s not even close [...]

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Moving a Website & Changing Nameservers

August 18, 2009

This week was another web ‘first’ for me.  I moved this site to a new host!  It really wasn’t very complicated, but I ran into a few speed-bumps.  I’ll run through a few things I had to do. There were 2 major obstacles for me.  First off, I’m running WordPress for this blog, and needed [...]

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Basic Tweaks for the Thesis Theme Round 1

July 16, 2009

I’ve done enough reading to know that while the learning curve for the Thesis WordPress theme may be a little bit steep, it’s worth it in the end.  I’ve also read that once you ‘get’ it, it’s easy to make new changes in the future. I’m still at the head scratching phase, but I’ll document [...]

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Online Communities for Online Community Managers

July 10, 2009

I recently came across a bunch of links for Online Community Manager groups or communities via the Online Community Manager LinkedIn group. I figured I’d share them! I haven’t signed up for many of these, so I don’t know if they’re worthwhile or not, but you can find that out for yourself. Communities of Practice [...]

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WordPress, and Drinking the Thesis Theme Kool Aid

June 16, 2009

6 months ago I would have thought the idea of purchasing a WordPress theme was pretty inane.  I’m by no means a great designer, but I’ve been able to toss together sites, or tweak existing themes to meet my needs. I recently learned of the Thesis Theme.  Turns out there are a LOT of blogs [...]

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6 Ways People Enjoy Using Twitter

May 19, 2009

I love Twitter.  I’ve told people I love Twitter.  The common responses are “What is Twitter?” and “Explain this Twitter to me, I don’t get it.”  My responses have been different for every person who asks.  At first I told people that if they didn’t already know, it probably wasn’t worth them worrying about — [...]

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Blip.fm – Thoughts and Impressions

April 30, 2009

My goal for this year has been to check out a bunch of different Social Media & Social Networking sites on the net.  For the most part, I register, check the site out, then forget to ever go back.  I’ve finally found one that I think is pretty cool.  While not ‘new’, Blip.fm was new [...]

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