Tweet I’ve been much more active lately sharing phone pitching tips with other public relations professionals. I actually get quite excited about it. It’s something I love to talk about, but so few of my regular friends would care to hear about it. So, when I find a willing audience, I get excited to share. Thusly, I was excited to offer three of my better phone pitching tips to the good folks over at Muck Rack. It ran today and you can read it right here.
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Tweet It’s always nice to get quoted as an expert in something. I’ve learned a few things about blogging over the years as I’ve been doing it since 2006, and I shared my biggest blogging tip with Profnet Connect, getting quoted in a post last week. “Follow the news! There is always something to write about when you follow the news. Go to Google News and type in the subject you’re writing about to get the latest in that industry.” –Micah Warren, principal at Large Media, Inc. loan within 1 hour “Write about a news topic and then offer your […]
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Tweet If you’re a lover of sharing videos of yourself on social media, you’ve surely heard about Vine by now. In fact, you may or may not already be addicted to it. I know have friends that can’t get enough of watching themselves in six-second clips and sharing with anyone who will watch. Well, it just got a little bit easier to share these Vine videos. Now, WordPress.com has added functionality that lets you embed these mini masterpieces (in very few cases is that term true) right into your website. You can add them with either a shortcode or with […]
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Tweet If you’re into using WordPress as a CMS and/or blogging platform, these are fun days. Days when a new version of the popular platform hits the streets. Or should I say, “shows up as an icon at the top of your dashboard.” We mentioned previously that WordPress version 3.3 was available for beta testers in October, well now it’s available to everyone. Some features that I’m already digging: using this warranty dealers -When you hover over an option on the left side of the dashboard, it automatically brings up the entire sub menu for that option. Doesn’t sound like […]
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Tweet People who use the WordPress blogging platform have been complaining for years that WordPress hosting doesn’t allow you to have ads on your blog. Now, if you got your own hosting, you can do whatever you want. But if you’re hosted on WordPress, you can’t have ads. But, that is be changing. WordPress has partnered with Federated Media to allow blogs to have PPC advertisements on them. You still have to meet preset requirements, but the fact that you’ll be able to have ads at all is a big step. Jon Burke, from WordPress, explains it on his blog: […]
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Tweet Regardless of what you think of Barack Obama’s politics (and there are plenty of polls out there that say that you don’t like them), his campaigns have been some of the best run campaigns we’ve seen in recent memory. One of the bigger reasons that he was elected president in 2008 is because of his use of social media during his campaign. He was reaching the young people where they hang out, and for the most part, John McCain was not. The LA Times Technology blog even deemed Obama “the first social media president.” Now, of course, every single […]
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Tweet WordPress has announced on their blog that version 3.3 of the popular CMS is now available for beta testers. As they say in their post, this does not mean that you put this on a real website that you use. From their blog: cash advance with no credit As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help […]
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Tweet Tons of people have already downloaded WordPress 3.2, but now there is more fun to be had (not really). The people at WordPress.org have announced that an update has been released, and it’s shockingly called version 3.2.1. After more than a million downloads of WordPress 3.2, we’re now releasing WordPress 3.2.1 into the wild. This maintenance release fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON that’s unfortunately affected some of you, as well as a few other fixes in the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme. If you’ve already updated to 3.2, then this update will be even […]
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Tweet If you are a WordPress user, then you need to log into your account and upgrade to the newest version of the CMS. That’s right, WP 3.1.3 has been released. Here are the juicy details straight from WordPress.org: Various security hardening by Alexander Concha. -Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky. -Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros. -Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft, Jesse Ou of Microsoft, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research. – Improves file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings. -Cleans up old WordPress import files if the […]
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Tweet Am I the only one that gets excited when new WordPress updates are released? Even when it’s something as simple as a security fix and doesn’t even offer cool new features? Yeah, I know, I’m a dork. But yeah, WordPress 3.1.2 has been released and yes, it’s security based. No new cool features for us. But it does fix the problem in 3.1.1 where apparently contributor-level users could post content. I can see how that’s a problem. Everyone is encouraged to make the update as soon as possible. So get on that.
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