Archive for 2007

Company bloggers can help put out fires

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August 10th, 2007
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Company bloggers can help put out fires: “This is what blogs are about. Everything has changed. We have to be transparent and honest. People are talking about this, they’re posting these images, we can’t ignore it. We have to deal with it directly.” That is a quote from the article by Lionel Menchaca who is Dell’s chief blogger. I could not agree more. Openness and transparency are the name of the game in corporate PR and will only be rewarded with accolades and public forgiveness. Though this is a somewhat jaded view of the world looking through rose colored glasses, I believe that blogs can be a fantastic vehicle for corporations to listen to their target audience and get their candid message across. There are lots of interesting examples in that article.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/9

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Ceruleus is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with strong blue colors and support for asides. Requires installation of the Sandbox theme. Dot Blue is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a minimal layout. Hello Luis is a 3-column, widget-ready, brown-colored theme inspired by a Luis Vuitton pattern. Raised is a 2-column, adsense-ready with a simple layout and smallish header. The theme is designed to be as search engine friendly as possible.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/9

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August 9th, 2007
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Comment Recovery lets paste the email sources of your “new comment” notification emails and save them back to your database in the event that you lose them during the process of database management. Directory turns any page into a directory. File Icons adds icons from the famous free icons set at famfamfam to your links via CSS. Flexi Pages Widget is a highly configurable widget to list pages and sub-pages in WordPress sidebar. Highlight highlights anything that is searched for on your blog with different color for each word. It also highlights and search terms that are used to find your blog from any of the major search engines. Link Modder adds affiliate information to existing links and converts certain keywords like “Yahoo!” to actual links.

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More polite in the virtual world?

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August 8th, 2007
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Are people more polite in virtual worlds?: Choice quote – IBM has 5,000 employees in Second Life, and according to Wladawsky-Berger, “virtual worlds are a godsend for meetings.” He said that IBM has a code of conduct for staff in Second Life that they need to “be nice” and dress their avatars “appropriately” in meetings. But when among friends in the virtual world, they can do whatever they like, he said. So, do you think you are more polite in the virtual world? Do you feel compelled to be more polite because the person you are dealing with might be a complete stranger? Or are you more polite because in the virtual world, everything is recorded and traceable and your heated diatribe might come back and bite you later? Many other interesting questions might be asked on this subject and I find the answers quite fascinating. A few socio-political studies […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/8

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August 8th, 2007
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Bot Tracker tracks bot activity on your blog and displays that data in a graph. Sticky Image extends the post form, so you can directly upload an image, which then gets resized twice: You can setup a thumbnail size and optionally a new image-size. Requires a minor modification to a wp-admin script in order to work properly. Tagline Randomizer changes the tagline displayed on your site each time the site is accessed. The values used are added by the blog owner from the Options panel of the Administrative Menu.

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07 Plugin Competition Prize and Plugins List

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August 6th, 2007
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Since the Plugin Competition ended on the 31st of July, we needed to get all the entries in order for the judges and there were some suggestions to put them all in one place, here are the entries and the final distribution of the prizes (and not the results). Prizes For the Consolation Prize, we have hosting from Pajama Mommy and a free 48″ wallhog from Wallhogs.com For the Third Prize we have A Baby Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $134.40) from Hostgator, a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 and $200 in cash For the Second Prize we have A Swamp Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $194.40) from Hostgator, an autographed copy of Lorelle’s new book, Blogging Tips and $300 in cash For the Grand Prix Winner we have A Basic Dedicated Server for 6 months (Valued at $1,059) from Hostgator, $600 in cash and an […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 8/6

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Allegory Kiss is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a right-hand side column and navigation links in the footer. Brownie is a w-column, widget-ready theme that allows for a custom image and text via the Presentation admin panel. ColdBlue is a 2-column, dark theme. Midnight is an attractive, dark, 2-column theme built on the Sandbox template. Mimbo is a 2-column, magazine-style theme built with no images and minimal CSS styling. MistyBlue is a 3-column, widget-ready theme done in shades of blue.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/6

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August 6th, 2007
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Berri YouTube Gallery gives you the possibility to show a YouTube video gallery with customized appearance on your sidebar Find Us allows you to display a map on your website and allows your visitors to find your way to your location. HidePost protects a part of your blog posts (maybe links, images or texts), that only registered and logged in members can see it. Simply put your content to be hidden with [protect] and [/protect] tags.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 8/5

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August 5th, 2007
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Allegro Widget allows you to show your active auctions from Allegro.pl on your sidebar. (English translated page.) Amazon S3 allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog. Demo Mode allows only logged in users of your blog to see demo or test pages without revealing them to the whole world. Stray Quotes collects and displays random quotes on your blog. It is widget compatible, and the appearance of the quotes can be customized. WP-Lytebox adds image display functionality like that of Lightbox 2.0 to images as well as to HTML content such as web pages and flash videos.

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