Analysts. Pr. My Name is Kate: Canadian Blog Awards - Nominations Now Open til. Virtual Hosting Blog » Webmaster Intel Basics: 25 Tools to Compi. Your rankings don’t just depend on how good your site is. They depend on the quality of your competitors’ sites as well. As a result, keeping an eye on your competition should be a regular part of every webmaster’s tactical plan. Use these 25 tools to get the lowdown on their sites. Domain Name and Ownership Intel First things first; you want to find out who your competition is, don’t you? Use these tools to get information on ownership, sales, and contact information. Whois: Check out the Whois on your competitors to find how who owns the site and where they operate. You can also gather contact information through this tool.Mark Alert: Mark Alert lets you know if a domain name is registered with a term or phrase that may violate your trademark.
Traffic Intel Is your competitor getting better traffic than you are? Compete: Compete offers SnapShots of any site. Hosting Intel Find out what kind of host your competitor is working on by checking out these hosting intelligence tools. BPM Focus Turns to People in the Process > > Intelligent E. Message to SOA-centric IT groups: The next wave of optimization lies in empowering the individual. As the business process management (BPM) landscape changes, a number of recurring themes are beginning to emerge. At the top of the list is a renewed focus on people in the process. It may seem obvious that you have to consider the people who are part of a business process, but there are many SOA-centric IT groups that really don't consider people as first-class process citizens. Rather, they are viewed as being there only to handle specific exception steps when things go wrong in straight-through processing.
The BPM focus is now shifting from being purely about automation and process efficiency to being more about person-to-person interaction and arming the information worker for less structured tasks. Make the individual or small team the design point; focus on people in the process, rather than removing them from the process. Identify people/information-intensive processes. More Insights. Sandbox Designs Competition » And the winners are . . . Quick access to WordPress options « WordPress Bits.
Posted by Leonid Mamchenkov on August 7, 2007 One of the first things that you probably check right after upgrade to a new WordPress version is the Options menu in the administration interface. Is there something new? Are there more ways that WordPress can be tweaked and tuned now? Can I … Anyway, I don’t have to tell you about it. You know. But what you probably don’t know is that there is a quick way to see all WordPress options on one screen. To access the page with all options, go to your administration interface, and append options.php to the URL, so that it looks something like .
We will come back one day to this topic to see how this can be useful (hint: plugin development). Update: Obviously, I left out the most interesting part – how to do a cleanup of old options, left by plugin installations. Like this: Like Loading... Howardgr's bookmarks tagged with "bloggingtips" o. Webapp framework. More than a blogging engine. More than a CMS. I’ll try to keep this post as non-technical as possible for the benefit of the general public. The main goal of the article is to show why and how WordPress is more than just a blogging engine or a content management system (CMS).
WordPress is a web application framework. First, let’s see Wikipedia definition of “Software framework”: A software framework is a reusable design for a software system (or subsystem). This is expressed as a set of abstract classes and the way their instances collaborate for a specific type of software (Johnson and Foote 1988; Deutsch 1989). Software frameworks can be object-oriented designs. Although designs don’t have to be implemented in an object-oriented language, they usually are. Reusable design, blah blah blah, code libraries, scripting language, blah blah blah, glue together, blah blah blah, API. The truth of the matter is that WordPress has a lot to offer to web application developers (web developers and webdevs for short).
And why is that so cool? Top 50 analyst bloggers - updated. This league table is a global ranking of the top 50 English-language analyst blogs. Edit (June 21) – I will keep this page updated with major changes to the league table due to blogs being missed (as with Stowe Boyd) or quantitative measures being updated (as with Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff). The next major update will be published next quarter. A copy of the top 50 analyst blogs can be downloaded here.
There has been quite a lot of discussion around the validity of such a ‘league table’. Perhaps the most interesting point is that this table shows how virtually all the analyst houses are taking this form of communication seriously. This league table will be reviewed and republished every quarter. Google PageRank (0 to 10) – Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that interprets web links and assigns a numerical weighting (0 to 10) to each site. Bloglines Subscribers (1 to 20) – Bloglines displays the amount of subscribers each blog has to its feed(s). Like this: Like Loading... Feed Validator for Atom and RSS. Extend › Plugins. 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging. Flickr4Writer. Blog - How to Blog a Conference. Lazytom's FeedJumbler. On Influence and Automation » My 10 Tips to Optimize Your Blog. SimplePie. WordPress Plugins Database.
Main Page - Microformats. Get Your Blog Noticed! Grazr. Court says that bloggers are journalists. It appears that one of the perennial blogosphere vs. journalism questions — can bloggers be considered journalists, and therefore subject to the same protections? — has been answered in the affirmative by the California court of appeals, in the case of Apple vs. a bunch of rumour sites that spilled the beans on various new products before Steve-o wanted them to. As the court put it: “In no relevant respect do they appear to differ from a reporter or editor for a traditional business-oriented periodical who solicits or otherwise comes into possession of confidential internal information about a company.” Pretty straightforward.
The court also said: “We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what constitutes ‘legitimate journalis[m].’ The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news, and that is what petitioners did here. We can think of no workable test or principle that would distinguish ‘legitimate’ from ‘illegitimate’ news. 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web. Some parts of the web are finished, unchanging creations – as polished and as fixed as books or posters. But many parts change all the time: news sites bring up-to-the-minute developments, ranging from breaking news and sports scores to reports on specific industries, markets, and technical fieldsweblogs, journals, and other personal sites provide a window on the interests and opinions of their creatorscorporate weblogs, wikis, knowledge banks, community sites, and workgroup journals provide share news and knowledge among co-workers and supply-chain stakeholders Some of these sites change every week; many change every day; a few change every few minutes.
Daypop’s Dan Chan calls this the Living Web, the part of the web that is always changing. Every revision requires new writing, new words that become the essence of the site. Living sites are only as good as today’s update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. 1. If you don’t really care, don’t write. Categories via d2B - delicious2Blogger. Categories - organising your previous posts under subject headings, usually in your sidebar - is one of the features missing from Blogger that its users most often wish for.
Blogger Categories with Delicious, aka d2B, the brainchild of my Magical Sheep pardner Kirk, is one of the best, neatest, most elegant and powerful ways to have categories in your Blogger blog - and he has recently updated and improved this already fab system. (An excellent list of all sorts of different ways to get categories for Blogger has been produced by John.) Kirk's d2B categories system works by making use of the little-known Link Field in Blogger, in combination with tagging your post on the free social bookmarks manager Delicious - so you do need a Del.icio.us account, but it's free to sign up. Just check out Kirk's blog for an example of his system in action. Once you've set up d2B, you'll get an extra Link Field box in your Create Post tab. Just take a look at his: Blog-Based Analysts Shake Up IT Research. A new breed of IT analysts is sharing insights over the Internet, leaving traditional research firms trying to catch up using the same methods.
If you like your IT analysis fast, free, and with a heavy dose of attitude, you're in luck. A new breed of technology analysts has emerged: They use blogs to spread their insights, and they're not afraid to pick a fight with IT vendors or one another. These E-pundits want to shake the foundation of IT analysis and influence the market, forcing conventional firms such as Forrester, Gartner, and Yankee to adapt or get left behind, much the same way the packaging and reach of cable TV newscasts forced network news to rethink its role.
But for businesses to navigate these new information streams, they must understand how the new analysts work, what motivates them, and, ultimately, when they can or can't be trusted. Howlett, in particular, is known for his acerbic comments on his peers' blogs. 1 of 3 More Insights. Blog Design blog - The Blog Studio. Hi all. I’m Peter Flaschner, the founder and creative dictator at The Blog Studio. I’m going to walk you through the process we go through when designing a blog or other website. This is part one of two. When we’re done, we’ll have a super flexible WordPress theme perfect for anyone looking to make a buck with a blog. Design can add tremendous value to a blog.
When it comes to making money with your blog, proper web design can make a huge impact on your bottom line. Before we get into this, I need to dispel one further myth: design is not about making things pretty. To formulate a plan for; devise: designed a marketing strategy for the new product.To plan out in systematic, usually graphic form: design a building; design a computer program.To create or contrive for a particular purpose or effect: a game designed to appeal to all ages.To have as a goal or purpose; intend.To create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner. So, without further ado, let’s design a site. Podscope. PODZINGER. MT Hacks. Eat Drink Sleep Movable Type.
Power your website with Movable Type | mentalized. Using Movable Type as the backbone for my entire website is something I had been pondering for a while, I just never really got around to doing it. But Matt Haughneys and Brad Choates posts about doing just that lured me into taking the last step and actually do it. This explains how. Why? Why use Movable Type (MT), a blogging tool, for something that isn’t a blog? Movable Type with its plugins and templates is a highly flexible and extensible tool, that with a some knowledge and a few hacks can be made to do a lot of the things you’d want from a CMS. Advantages Custom text formatting for every page (yay, Textile) Sitewide search engine RSS feeds for all your content Comments for all your content Posting new and editing old content using MT is much easier than using an editor and a FTP client.
Getting started I am going to assume that you have at least a decent idea how you want to structure your site. Create a blog for each website area Journal The journal-part of my website is my blog. EgoSurf - ego surfing without the guilt. Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen. Automatic RSS Feed Button Maker. Keep current time tool updated. How to postpone or delay your blog posts. If your blogging platform (e.g.
Blogger) won't let you write a post but then delay or postpone publishing it until a later date or time, you can still do that with a newish free service called Emailschedule. It was designed to schedule the sending of emails e.g. email reminders, but works to schedule blog posts too - and you can include HTML to include links, pics and lists. It's the easiest (if not only) way of scheduling blog posts that I've found so far. You can only use Emailschedule if you have the ability to post to your blog by email, so first you need to set that up. To see an example, here's a draft of this post which I posted to a test blog using Emailschedule. For Blogger users: there are instructions on turning on Mail-to-Blogger, which will enable you to post to your blog just by sending an email to yourusername.yoursecretname@blogger.com.
Note that Emailschedule is relatively new and may need a bit of time and patience for the initial signing up process. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.