CRUSH IT! a book by Gary Vaynerchuk is a timely and visionary look at personal branding and the direction social media is headed in terms of promoting one’s product or service.
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Reviewing our reading on social media. There are a lot of books out there and we read a lot so we thought we would share.
Joomla and Drupal are not just blogging platforms anymore. Communities are springing up all over the place on the web, and platforms for creating them are not necessarily keeping pace. Two platforms that are making serious moves towards becoming social networking platforms in addition to content management systems are Drupal and Joomla.
Drupal is a powerful and secure open source platform with extensions and plug-ins for turning your blogging site into a social networking powerhouse. With modules for extended profiles, relationship linking, email management, instant messaging, and shopping carts it’s quite the full featured platform. Check out Drupal 6 Social Networking, by Michale Peacock, for more information and visit www.drupal.org.
Joomla is a highly customizeable and secure platform that has been gathering quite a developer following for several years. Their Community Builder extension is quite powerful, and has over 120 plug-ins for extending its functionality! Check out www.joomlapolis.com for more. Another powerful community builder extension is JomSocial. For more information go to www.jomsocial.com. Any kind of site can be built using the various modules and plug-ins.
For getting a website up and running quickly and easily, with a minimum of administrative tasks, these are two platforms that are really making the lives of content creators easier. Don’t just put up a site; make it social and foster interaction to make your users keep coming back.
And do it quite easaily with Drupal or Joomla.
Google have just updated their Local Business Center offering to provide a facility for users to post to their place page. So, for example, if you have an event coming up or some sort …
People keep asking me about cloud computing.
Cloud computing is the future. It’s really where we started in a way with big server machines and less powerful terminal desktops. Now we are moving back. We are …
Microsoft finally set to make its name in the mobile phone market with two self branded phones. Up until now their only involvement has been through the windows mobile OS, which came on strong and …
Google has released a new version of Google Personalized Search, this time in a format intended to constantly monitor what people select from search results and shape future queries based on their choices.
Is this …
Supermarket giant Tesco has joined a growing number of UK firms offering Apple’s popular iPhone.
OK trying not to sound negative here but sometimes people write the biggest load of rubbish on Facebook. Did I succeed? Probably not but who cares! No one cares what you had for dinner! At …
What puts you off a blog?
For me it’s spelling mistakes. Reading an article that contains spelling mistakes just says to me the blogger didn’t spend much time on it and didn’t check it before hitting …
If you’re anyway serious about using search engine optimisation (SEO) to promote your website then you will no doubt be doing things like…
For a while now TVCatchup has allowed users to stream freeview channels over the web, well now the users of iPhones can take advantage with the TVCatchup iPhone version. Simply visiting iPhone Catchup from your …
Nice post over at ReadWriteWeb on how to build your own iPhone app.
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create …
Not a massive update but the Joomla team have released an update to version 1.5.15
It can be downloaded here. If you need help with updating post a comment and we can write an article on …
A sitemap s a graphical representation of the structural and hierarchical linkage of a web site. So why would you want to add a sitemap to your site? There are many reasons:
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Last night I posted a little blog about the new Google Wave notifier addon for Firefox. Another one came to mind that is also very useful. The Gmail notifier for Firefox!
Nothing to explain. Very simple. …
