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U.S. Government Agencies Use WordPress

26 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

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Not necessarily the best recommendation, but in this case I’m proud that Uncle Sam uses open source software like Wordpress so widely. This list is from M. Jaquith, who writes the fine Mark on WordPress.

Here is a list (probably not all-inclusive) of United States government agencies or organizations using WordPress (whether privately or publicly):

Air Force
Army
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Coast Guard
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Marine Corps
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Agency
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy

Full article here.

-Via Cozmolabs:

Wordpress is slowly making it’s way into the corporate world as well: Yahoo, CNN, New York Times, Ford, Nike are just a few of big names that implemented it for it’s ease of use, fast development times, cost reduction and easy maintenance of the platform. Oh… and U.S. Government Agencies are also using WordPress.

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Google Reader Is Your Information Funnel Or Firehose

18 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

Depending on how you use it, Google RSS Reader can be a discerning filter, a news funnel or an indiscriminate and overwhelming firehose of information/trivia. It takes a little practice, but the world’s most popular online RSS reader is a business blogger’s best friend.

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Set Up For SMM Efficiency

12 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

Here’s a diagram of Seven North’s recommended SMM set up:

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Marketing With Twitter In Your Neighborhood

09 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

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(Via Mashable)

Your business is primarily local in scope– How do you use Twitter to build community and market your products within a few miles of your office?

Finding local Twitter users to connect with is great for networking, but also for getting relevant, real-time, local information about things like jobs, news, politics, weather, food, and more. Someone tweeting from London can’t help you find a good place to eat in New York City, and if you live in Chicago, tweets about the weather in Los Angeles won’t be very enlightening. Here are nine ways to locate Twitter users in your town to help you get the most out of Twitter.

Read the whole story on Mashable!

Twitter to Launch Verified Accounts (mashable.com)

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Social Media Persönlichkeitsstörungen als Venn Diagramm

08 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

Wusste ich es doch. Die Twitter Benutzer sind die Schlimmsten. [via Buzzfeed]

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How Does Your Site Portray Your Company?

05 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

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(Via Fast Company)

I don’t think it gets any clearer than this, from Dear American Airlines:

I redesigned your website’s front page, and I’d like to get your opinion.

I’m a user interface designer. I travel sometimes. Recently, I had the horrific displeasure of booking a flight on your website, aa.com. The experience was so bad that I vowed never to fly your airline again. But before we part ways, I have a couple questions and three suggestions for you…

Fast Company sums up the exchange here.

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Identity Central: URL and Company Name Selection

05 June 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

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(Via ReadWriteWeb)

The ReadWriteStart Channel has up-to-the-minute advice for new and re-visioning small business-people. Here is their much-referenced advice on URLS and company names.

Relax (But Avoid Really Horrible Ones)
URLs matter a lot less than it would seem when you are starting out. One can think of plenty of terrible names that did great and vice versa. We are now moving away from destination sites. Search engines and browser capabilities, such as Firefox’s awesome bar, will help people find you.
If you are relying on a great name to build traffic… don’t. Unless you have a lot of money to buy an existing domain — and that is probably not a good use of your cash — there are cheaper ways to build traffic.
So then, “okay” is good enough. Don’t obsess over the URL. Save your obsessing for usability design. But avoid the real stinkers, the names that make people laugh at you and then ignore you. We live in a global world, too, so do check that your great URL does not mean “Your mother is a mangy dog” in Chinese, French, or whatever.

Read the whole piece at ReadWriteWeb.

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Establish A Consistent Social Media Presence

Web Design With Wordpress for Social Media Success in St Petersburg,Tampa Bay,Florida

Establish A Consistent Social Media Presence

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St Pete’s Seven North Web & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging Wordpress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

Our Philosophy: You should have total control and ownership of your site’s look, function and content, your hosting choices and your domain.

Our Policy: You select your hosting and domain registry provider (we can assist you with this if desired); You do your own content management (we can get you started and provide training or manage it.for you if desired.)

Web Site Option One

We will:

Consult with your company about your Web Site, and
Build a Social Media HUB-Web Site designed specifically for your business.

You Get:

Theme Layout
One hour of Design Time
Web Log
Two Blog Entries
Content Pages
Two Social Media Connections (Face book, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, etc.)
One Hour of Training- Content Management and Organic SEO Techniques.

We Install:

Your Web Ready Content
Links, Categories and Navigation
Search Engine Optimization Plugins
User-Centric Modifications
Comment-Spam Protection
Daily Backup System
Google Analytics or similar tracking system
Webmail Account
Wysiwyg editing aids
And more.

Starting At $599.00

Graphic Design: From business cards to billboards, we can design, manufacture and deliver all your print-media promotion at great prices.

Web Site Option Two

Includes Option One – PLUS

Custom or Premium Theme
One extra hour of design time -( Total two hours).
Four extra Social Media Connections (Total six)
Ten Web Log entries (Total twelve)
RSS News Feeds with content relevant to your industry.
2 Hours of Training (*Total three hours*) option one plus: Writing for the web and SEO, Business blogging, Social media marketing, Netiquette.

We teach you how to run your Social Media Marketing Empire effectively and efficiently.

Post to all your social applications at once, including your weblog – Free!
Use RSS feeds and specialized searches to gather industry news and media daily that you can use to blog, microblog, bookmark etc., which increases your authority, web ranking and reader base – Free!
Find out what customers are saying about you, your competitors and your industry in real time – Free!
Find out who visits your page and from where – Free!
Learn to use the free and honest way to increase your Search Engine Authority as recommended by Google – Free!
Learn the easy way to write copy for the web using your branding key words naturally for organic SEO – Free!

Starting At $899.00

Call 727-894-5266 for more information.

*Re-pointing of existing domain ($40.00)
*Logo design, if required, is additional

Note: Security and feature updates to your Wordpress software and your plugins are necessary at irregular intervals. You may wish to perform these updates yourself, or you may wish for us to do this for you. At this time we charge fifty-five dollars an hour, with a fifteen-minute minimum. Most updates are quick and uneventful.

Impact of Regulations on Healthcare Social Media

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Connecting the Dots with Carra Riley

By Guest Blogger Pamela Cendejas with Second Self Virtual Assistance Today’s edition of “ Connecting the Dots with Carra Riley“. First of all, we at Second Self Virtual Assistance have to give a hearty “thank you” to Carra Riley , the Countess of the Cosmic Cow Pie. We were privileged to be interevi ...

Demand Media Announces Recent Pluck Social Media Deployments …

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Not So Fast Twitter…Don’t Forget Your Roots.

We all know that Twitter and Facebook have revolutionized the world. They have brought attention to the whole concept of “sharing.” It’s a concept that we were supposed to learn in pre-school and then again in pre-marriage counseling, but we couldn’t really wrap our heads around it until it was pres ...

SEO Should Not Stand Alone – www.InternetMarketingBestPractices.net

Your consumers do not view your website, email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even their mobile as mutually exclusive channels; neither should you. Search engine optimization was once a very powerful form of communication and marketing by itself but as time has pushed on and the technology has chan ...

SEO Should Not Stand Alone – www.InternetMarketingBestPractices.net

Wine Online: How Wine Lovers Use Social Media

Twitter. Facebook. Blogs and videos. With all the various ways to communicate about wine (and myriad other pursuits), it’s a wonder we have any time left to sip and relax. But social media gurus say that tweeting and blogging can help us enjoy our favorite tipple. “Wine is a very social beverage,” s ...

Who’s the ‘U’ in Social Media & U?

Welcome to my blog! Through my years of experience working and volunteering with university alumni groups and non-profits, I’ve realized that there are a lot of ways that these organizations can use social media as a marketing and a connection tool. Unfortunately, not everyone is aware of the possib ...

Social Media Marketing . . . Part 3

In part 1 of this series on Social Media Marketing I gave a brief overview of what seems to be going on in this young medium. In part 2 of this series, I walked through some of the tools that I’ve found to help me with managing the task of getting involved in Social Networking sites. Next, I’d like ...

At Last! Pharma eMarketing Comes of Age

I’ve actually heard of someone saying “2010 is going to be the year of digital,” and I kind of laughed inside my head a little. Wasn’t the breakout year of digital marketing a few years back? Okay, in the world of pharma, perhaps not. I guess it depends on how you define “the year of…” Does it mean ...

Setting Up Your New Website

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Wordpress Site Setup: Web Design With Wordpress for Social Media Success in St Petersburg,Tampa Bay,Florida

Your Wordpress site will be the center of your social media web marketing campaign.

What we need to do before we begin:

Save all content (pictures, text, etc.) from your current site, if you have one.
Establish a 5 or 10 dollar a month Linux hosting account with a hosting provider like GoDaddy.com. We can do this for you if you like.
Point your current domain name [yourbusinessnamehere.com] to the new hosting account– this will require: a) the domain name’s owner’s presence (you, presumably) and b) access to your current hosting account, and c) access to your new hosting account. In other words, you will need a computer and quite possibly a phone if you need to call your accounts for assistance. We can help you, or we can do this for you
–OR– grab a new domain name. We casn help you with this.
Establish a webmail email account to which we can have initial and temporary access. Later you can change your password. We’ll be happy to do this for you.

Our Personal Consults:

Initial design consult– bring your ideas and a notebook
Coaching session 1– how to add new content (posts and pages), handle dialog with users and modify existing content
Coaching session 2– how to add categories, themes, plugins, etc., and follow-up questions

Additional services:

Prepping photos for web use: $2.50 per photo, with excellent volume discounts available
Consultation on blogging skills, maximizing your SEO, community and linkbuilding through free Web2.0 services: $50hr, 1 hr minimum. Consultation held at Seven North’s office.

Why You Should Use a Simple Wordpress CMS to Power Your Site

It’s free, open source and constantly updated for features and security.
Hundreds of looks (via themes) for free.
Hundreds of extra functions (via plugins) for free.
No more webmasters– no more maintenance fees.
Edit, add text and pictures from any one’s computer anywhere and anytime with your web browser– or even your cellphone – No need for web design software (Dreamweaver, et al) or FTP clients.
Easy to add video clips, audio, pictures, graphics, etc.
Any user can, with 90 minutes or less of easy instruction, take total control.
Vastly superior Search Engine Optimization built into the structure (Google loves dynamic blog-architecture sites)– people can find you easily and incidentally.
Menus, archives, hierarchal page organization and search are all built in.
Discussion-participation (comments), RSS feeds, blogroll and links are automated – make your site interesting and encourage community-building and frequent visits to your site.
Huge user-base for community-based support.

Open publication – Free publishing – More wordpress

If at some later date you decide to graduate to a full fledged CMS like Drupal or Joomla, you will be ready by virtue of your experience with Wordpress to take full advantage of those more complex and capable applications’ features.

Here’s a diagram of Seven North’s recommended SMM set up:

Social Media In Plain English Video

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St Pete’s Seven North Web & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging Wordpress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

Web Design With Wordpress for Social Media Success in St Petersburg,Tampa Bay,Florida

U.S. Government Agencies Use WordPress

Google Reader Is Your Information Funnel Or Firehose

Set Up For SMM Efficiency

Marketing With Twitter In Your Neighborhood

Social Media Persönlichkeitsstörungen als Venn Diagramm

How Does Your Site Portray Your Company?

Identity Central: URL and Company Name Selection

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