Archive for May, 2010

I just bought a loaf of bread from Sainsbury’s…

Actually I am more of an ASDA’s girl myself but, I just bought a loaf of bread from Sainsbury’s.

You may have seen a plethora of #loaf related blog posts running around on Twitter last night, if you didn’t, then you should have been watching ‘Socially Sally’ which is the online show we run fortnightly on a variety of topics. Last night we had a fun time discussing blogging.

‘OK so I am lost, what …

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Top 10 FREE plugins to create a community site in WordPress

Have I ever mentioned how much I love WordPress?  Oh surely I have!  One of the reasons I do, is because you can turn it into, well, pretty much anything really.

Today I want to share with you some great plugins that help take WordPress from a blog, into a community site, enabling you to share and interact more with your readers and members.

But enough of this, let’s get on to the plugins!  In …

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Simple:Press Forum Plugin for WordPress – Simply Brilliant

Forums and IRC are where I started, many moons ago in 1995, so I always have a spot in my heart for good, solid forum systems.  Simple Machines Forum (SMF) has been my favourite for many years, since it started in fact in 2003/2004, and I became a SMF developer in 2005.

However, my work changed and I started to work with WordPress more and more and would manually bridge (integrate) SMF to WordPress to …

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‘I Am What I Am’ Branding – Be True To Yourself, Be True To Your Brand

I am a brand.  I want to market myself in the best possible way, just like I do my clients, and of course my niche area is social media.  However, it amazes me how many brands and companies only spam our Twitter streams with links or Facebook us with BUY NOW status messages.

One thing you can say about me, without a doubt, is that I like a natter.  I am social.  I am unfortunately, …

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WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 – Released

Today sees the release of the second beta version of the new WordPress 3.0.   As you can imagine, I ran to the download page and installed this on a my beta WordPress lab and excitedly started to press buttons!

This beta release comes from the huge success of the post-WordCamp San Francisco code sprint, and beta testers will not be disappointed.

Version 3, so far, has a sleeker admin dashboard and a few new features …

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