Ron Kernahan's Test Wordpress site

The amazing shift in thinking, and usage of social media and advertising. Remember the Time magazine front cover YOU showing that the power is in the people?

Watch this excellent presentation to see what I mean: Social Media Revolution [Video], a must watch. hundreds of thousands of views already!

Read the rest of this entry →

Updated July 3, 2009:

(Scroll down for the actual article, right now I need to address some problems I had / am having with 2.8)

1) I am noticing some inconsistencies. These include

a) WWSG (What Would Seth Godin Do) plugin strangely comes up with “header already sent” errors. The Plugin worked fine for the first week … and when I deleted the error.log file, it hasn’t come back yet … Read the rest of this entry →

A friend of mine new to Twitter was feeling stuck and asked how to get followers / following and started. So I thought I would post it here as well hoping it will help you.

Here are some tips or at least the way I started out on Twitter.

Tell the world:

• a) I added links from all my websites. (Probably where most of my followers come from)
• b) Tell everyone on your email list you are on Twitter. Ask some questions, people love to respond.

Read the rest of this entry →

I had no great desire to join Twitter, in fact I resisted for quite some time. I was expecting the usual social-type network trying to pair me with people I possibly attended school with in grade 6. I happen to have been in school in different countries so that really doesn’t help me anyway.

To make a long story short, I finally joined Twitter and am now delighted I did! Although Twitter doesn’t have too steep a learning curve, there are somethings I wish I had known when I joined. So here is my list of Twitter Tips which I think will help you along your Twitter flight. Add your own tips to the comments below. Enjoy!

Some things I have observed about Twitter (and turn into Tips for you):

Read the rest of this entry →

So what is WordPress? I like to think of it in terms of a complete system to take care of my web-site needs. It is in many ways like a software programm to develop my sites, but since I don’t have to program anything nor write code nor worry about updates, it really does more than software does for me. WordPress can manage my information by creating categories or sub-areas where I can move my information around. It also manages items such as comments for me and allows me even to change the looks of a site very quickly. On one site I run I need a daily calendar for just one month per year – I can add that and remove it after the month with just the click of a button, without having any of my data lost or at the very least, no longer linked in.

The whole structure of the WordPress has been designed to be flexible. And since I don’t have time to get into PHP nor even MySQL Database, I am very thankful to have a community where there are enough experts who are willing to offer advise, insight and point me in the right direction to find answers I need. Best of all, when January 1st comes around, I don’t have to worry if I changed all of my 200x to 200x since my pages and posts are automatically dated.

Yes, I would say WordPress is a system for me, a system which is getting better and better with each new release (and there have been many new releases, also a nice touch). For sure I will not be going back to HTML. As with any system, it isn’t perfect and I would love to see a few things added which I like (including the looks of the “themes” which tend to get pretty boring) but I see potential since it is a system which is trying to grow along with the Internet community it serves.

For example, some of the areas it is growing into is:

More CMS functionality (Content Management – in other words, like a traditional website not based on dates for your posts, but more for content as you want the public to see it and find it.)

More SEO friendly (Search Engine Optimization – always changing, but simply how to help search engines find you, and thus, eventually, have people find your site.)
[SEO is a huge topic, more on this later ...]

More users (WordPress has a strong following, and it is getting much stronger. In a year or so it is predicted WordPress will have 50% of the blog market.)

More later (there is a lot to be said about WordPress, so I’ll keep coming back to this.)

Bye for now … xodigoguy

Dropbox has the advantage of sharing files such as photos. Although there are several sync services, dropbox looks good and is easy to use. Watch the video: http://www.getdropbox.com/screencast

John Pozadzides mentioned at a WordPress WordCamp that he does not believe that niche blogs are the way to go. He should know, he writes about just about everything on his blog and he certainly has the traffic to prove his point.

Read the rest of this entry →