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Learning to Use Ping.fm and WordPress

22 Dec 08 by Rick Tuttle

Ok, I admit that I am a little late to the social networking party. A year ago I would mock the Tweeps and Facebook fanatics for having too much time on their hands.

I now humbly apologize and I confess that I have been assimilated. Yes, I’m on Facebook and I have used it to keep in touch with old friends. I’m also on Twitter and use it to follow other professionals the same way I have been doing with RSS Feeds for years.

I also use LinkedIn for professional networking and Plaxo for my contact management. But Facebook and Twitter have seen the most use over the past few months.

I eventually saw a need to centralize my updating of status and other messages in one place. I tried using Twitter to update Facebook but realized that I use Twitter too much for geek stuff and it would wear people out on FB. I thought I could go the other way but sometimes I use FB for more private, family and friends updates that I might not want “out there” on Twitter. (There’s a FB app that allows you to post from Twitter.)

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Filed Under: Blogging, WordPress Tagged With: Blogging, facebook, ping.fm, plugins, social networking, twitter, WordPress

Copyblogger’s Commonly Misused Words

8 Dec 08 by Rick Tuttle

One of the blogs I follow is Copyblogger, a wonderful resource for writing copy for the web with an emphasis on marketing.

A recent post by Brian Clark entitled The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words caught my attention and not just because I am a fan of the Princess Bride.
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Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing Tagged With: Blogging, Marketing, writing

Thesis WordPress Theme

3 Dec 08 by Rick Tuttle

I have been a WordPress user and developer for over four years now and use WP exclusively for customers who want to use a CMS. In that time I have learned how to change a site’s look and feel by developing a custom WordPress theme for each site. Hacking each theme by writing PHP code has been the norm and I have even done some pretty complex magazine sites like Haute Living Magazine which uses WordPress.

Now that some more sophisticated theme packages have been developed for WP I wanted to try some out, especially the Thesis WordPress Theme. So, I bought a license for Thesis and installed it on this site. [Read more…]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Blogging, themes, thesis, Web Development, WordPress

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