By Stephanie Cockerl on February 4, 2010
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Over the past week, I was under the weather.
There were mornings that I did not feel like firing up the laptop. Yet the comments on various blogs kept coming in. What’s a blogger to do?
If you have a Blackberry or an iPhone/iPod Touch, you are in luck.
Wordpress has a application available both for the Blackberry and the iPhone/iPod Touch.
I did a review on posting from my blackberry.
Plus I was able to easily moderate comments on my iPod Touch.
For those of you on TypePad, there are also both a iPhone App and a Blackberry App.
What ever platform you are on, there is a will and a way to stay on top of your blog, even when you are on the go.
Posted in Blogging | Tagged moderation, TypePad, WordPress
By Stephanie Cockerl on February 4, 2010
In addition to last weeks news, Blogger has decided to "bring it" with the ability for users to create pages.
This move will definitely level the blogosphere playing field with the likes of TypePad and WordPress.com and it also serves as a strong effort to keep users from migrating.
The drawback is that there is a limit to the number of pages (10), but if you want to create more pages, like I said last week, it may be time to weigh your options.
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Posted in Blogging | Tagged Blogger
By Stephanie Cockerl on February 3, 2010
I happened to come across a blog post from Chris Brogan names Points of Contact.
A few months ago, I had went though an audits of off all my email, and social media accounts.
At the end of it, I decided to delete 2 email accounts I wasn’t using and stopped actively using a couple of social media accounts. Do I need all my email addresses to be accessible on my phone and my iPod? Do I need my social media accounts to be available on my phone and my iPod?
Saul Colt, put it perfectly in his post about Foursquare. I realize through this exercise that what may be the latest and greatest social tool might not be the best fit.
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Posted in social networking | Tagged foursquare, social, social+media
By Stephanie Cockerl on January 29, 2010
Disclosure: I am a Thesis Affiliate
I had a free Friday afternoon.
Instead of going out in the cold, I resolve to spend the afternoon with Thesis and finally figure out how to make it my own.
I caved and got the Developer Version, which you are then able to do more with the theme.
This is how the site looked like before I got the Developer Version.
The first thing that I did was switched the header and the navigation.
Then I addressed the footer and customized it.
Finally, I put a stamp on the blog by making a collage of all of the images used in the blog post from the past couple of years.
Here is the design after.
The verdict, if you want a basic clean theme and don’t have css mojo, Thesis is for you.
If you are a developer, you can push the limits and see how far you can go with Thesis as the foundation.
Posted in Blogging, WordPress | Tagged themes, thesis, Thesis or Bust, thesis theme, wordpress themes
By Stephanie Cockerl on January 26, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email notification that my billing statement was ready.
This evening, fearing that I would be late paying the bill, I opened the email and click on the link that said to view, print and download the statement.
I arrived at the homepage and attempted to login to my account at least 3 times.
Then, in frustration, I called the company’s customer support line to voice my concern. All before I was able to login and pay my bill without a hitch. Now suddenly this month I couldn’t? Something had to give.
I got in touch with customer support, (which urged me to pay my bill first via their phone system) before I was forwarded to their technical support line.
I finally got someone in customer support and they explained that the wrong link was used in the email and that they did get many calls about it.
The lesson here? Be clear about what you want people to do once they receive your email. If the directions or the links are not clear, how does one expect people to accomplish the task?
Posted in email marketing | Tagged bill, customer+service, email, email marketing
