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Major Site Update – Splitcoaststampers.com

Major Site Update – Splitcoaststampers.com

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Yesterday we updated the Splitcoaststampers.com site, the absolute best site on the net for Rubber Stamping and Card Making,  with to the latest version of vBulletin, added a left column and did a whole bunch of system integration throughout the site. The project took approximately 4 months to complete, with tremendous work by Scott Bigelow, a great backend engineer and hardware guy, and Daven Nolta, the site manager, who kept us on track and on target for the community needs….

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Photo.net Live Blogging from the PMA Show

Photo.net Live Blogging from the PMA Show

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Josh Root, Director of Community at Photo.net is live blogging and tweeting from the floor of the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) trade show in Las Vegas.  The show runs through Thursday.  You can catch the his blog posts at blog.photo.net (I did the blog setup, using WordPress) and his tweet stream at http://twitter.com/photonet. In addition to new products and other show news, he’s running interviews with people like Photoshop Expert Kartin Eismann and Jodi Cobb, photographer from National Geographic.  Be…

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Web Development: A Blog to Watch

Web Development: A Blog to Watch

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If you’re not a developer or ever spend time in the engine room of the Internet, ie. working with servers, move on, there’s nothing to see here.  On the other hand, if you do, I’ve got just the blog for you.  Over the past couple months, Matt Sheilds, System Administrator extraordinaire, has resumed blogging at a new site, SysadminValley.com.   If you want quick access to the tips and tricks that will make your Linux servers or MySQL databases hum…

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Google Social Toolbar

Google Social Toolbar

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I’m ready to vent here.  Are we, as community builders, becoming so lazy that we don’t want to take the time to build in the social media features we want for our sites, the way we want them?  Do we really need to have Google package them up and provide them for us, the way they want them? Two days ago, Google announced they were releasing the Google Social Toolbar, which is really a misnomer, as it isn’t really a…

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Having Blog Trouble…

Having Blog Trouble…

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After my upgrade to 2.7.1 I found I had no visual editor.  After reuploading files, etc. I finally found that I’ve got an issue with one of my plugins.  Not sure which one, but obviously it’s one that interacts with the admin console. Steps to fix the problem if you have a tinymce editor in WordPress 2.7.1 that has stopped working. Refresh the page using ctl-shift-refresh (this is a “hard refresh” which will force everything to reload from the server,…

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Photo.net on Photographing the Super Bowl

Photo.net on Photographing the Super Bowl

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I’m not a great photographer, but I know a few. Photo.net is an online community of professional, semi-professional and very serious amateur photographers. Today, Hannah Thiem has a great story up that she worked with Sports Illustrated’s Bill Frakes about shooting the Super Bowl. It’s absolutely tremendous – a must read. When you’re working with a team, that’s exactly what you have to do. Work as a team. The SI photographers were spread out all over the field and my…

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Open Discussion: How to Crowd Source Weekly Fishing Reports

Open Discussion: How to Crowd Source Weekly Fishing Reports

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(Update: In thinking about this, I believe my fundemental problem is that while I’ve crowd sourced content generation, I am now at a point where I need to crowd source some of the content entry, formatting and editing tasks…) I’ve been editing the Fishwire Reports at Reel-Time.com since 1995.  The task has generally been hugely manual, requiring tons of my time, most of which has happened over the years between the hours of 4am and 9am on Friday mornings.  In…

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Boagworld: 5 Options When Website Budgets Get Slashed

Boagworld: 5 Options When Website Budgets Get Slashed

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If you’re a web designer or developer and you don’t know who Paul Boag is, you should.  In addition to running the Boagworld website, and of course his wonderful must listen podcast, entitled “Boagworld” he is the creative director at Headscape. In an article he’s posted today, he gives us “5 Options When Website Budgets Get Slashed“; each of which we should all commit to memory here and now, as we’ll no doubt be using them a lot over the…

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A Few Interesting Links

A Few Interesting Links

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In celebration of  “WordPress Thank a Plugin Developer Day” I’m posting a few interesting  links.  Colors In Corporate Branding – (thanks to Tracy Shaw for the link) – Check out the Bank of America link – I wonder if their website loads in Korean if you don’t select a language, just like their ATM machines do.  😉 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats – bookmark this one, it’ll come in handy for all those Powerpoint presentations.  Wow your…

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Google Kills 6 Services

Google Kills 6 Services

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Google announced late last week that they were killing 6 of their services, Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, Jaiku, and Google Video.  Additionally, the Jaiku service is going to be an open source project from here on out. From Informationweek: In addition to Google’s announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google…

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