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I love WordPress – I’m going to dedicate Wednesday to a post about it.  Hopefully I can maintain the concept.  Here we go.
Wordpress Wednesday #1
20+ Great WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins
I’ll put 2 of the 20 I love:

cforms II – An easy tool for creating submission forms on your site that [...]

Need a CMS without a bunch of drama?

Hate having to deal with installing databases?

Cushy CMS makes handling mostly static websites a bit simpler for you and clients by adding an interface between the user and the HTML. By adding the Cushy class into the HTML of the page, you make it a little bit easier to go in and edit pieces of the site without it being completely hosed.

Of course this comes at a price the interface is Cushy branded until you fork over $28 bucks a month. This fact is quite odd considering the market. If you have enough clients to justify that, then you probably don’t need it.

Anywho… here is a video.

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I really love UI (User Interface).  Like my buddy Matt T says, “I’m not ’smart’ enough to do UI, but I know a good one when I see it.”
Breathtaking and useful designs happen because the UI has been worked on tirelessly. It takes a real UI Master to understand how to make a [...]

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Here is a post from jason calacanis called “how to launch a new product“.  Jason tends to have a love him or hate him following – I tend to lean to the “love him” camp in the fact I think he comes off a bit like I do sometimes.  A bit brash, but [...]

Jason and I headed down to Mizzou on Tuesday evening to make it for the RJI Talkfest.  (You can review the live blog here.)
I really enjoyed this seminar…which, coming from a web geek was in limited numbers.  With working in the media industry, it was very good for me to hear what the journalist were [...]

As you can tell from some link love, we use WordPress here at SDA. This is one of the many programs available to setup a blog. Some of us are fond a particular blogging platform. But once I have one under my thumb, I like to try something new. Of all the other platforms to jump to, Habari recently caught my attention. It has been around for a little while, but it is quite the hidden gem. First stumbled upon it randomly before SDA was taken off Blogger, but then forgot about it.

Needing to get my personal site off of Blogger, it was a chance to check out the software which I was reminded of due to some mentions in Friendfeed. Its pretty sweet, its interface is clean and simple. Video below:

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I’ve spent a lot of time talking about how newspapers and media must move forward – and then, it started.  So now what do I do – that boat left the harbor…or is at least boarding.

I know – time to pick on the sales department!  Here’s the post that sparked this convo:

Revenue growth is priority #1 for most businesses today. So, good salespeople are in demand, and management wants to give them the best possible tools to make them productive. Selling is a numbers game. As long as you do reasonably sensible things, the time invested tends to corelate to revenue earned. Therefore, productivity really does matter. This is not an area to skimp on. If you can make somebody who brings in $1 million in revenue 10% more productive, that would mean an additional $100,000. So, what is happening in the market with tools for those who hustle on the front lines of business, the people who sell the products and services, who get capital for your business and sell it when the time comes, who hire the people who can grow your business? What will they be using in future?

Sales departments must get it together.  It is time to change or be rolled over.  The potential is huge here – the consumer wants to get the best deals they can.  Business’s need education on what their type of business needs and we (media outlets) have to be the people the business’s turn to.

But have we figured it out yet?

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