Google’s Wave – Microsoft’s Bing – big players, big changes
We’ve started doing a lot more in-house Voice-Over work at Media2o Productions (M2O). It’s really fun stuff. It’s also interesting that just as my recorded voice never sounds the same to me as it does to others – this seems to hold true for others doing VO work too. But, on to the big news – Google announced their latest innovation – Wave – today. Techcrunch has a great write up on it. If it’s half as... [Read More...]
WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 11: All in one SEO
As a follow up to yesterday’s podcast, today I tell you about another of my favourite plugins: All in one SEO pack. It’s pretty simple to use, just install and then give your homepage a special title and description. After that, you’re off to the races! Tweet This Post Read More →
WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 10: WP to Twitter
If you’re on Twitter like I am and have blogs on WordPress as clearly I do, you might want to send your posts into your Twitter stream. Today I give you two ways to do it the service TwitterFeed and the WP plugin WordTwit. I use both for different applications, TwitterFeed publishes periodically and WordTwit publishes instantly. Your choice… Tweet This Post Read More →
WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 9: Upgrading Plugins
One of the coolest and best features of WordPress now is that you can upgrade existing plugins and upload new plugins right from with in the admin panels. There is one hitch, however, is that you still need your FTP information that your web host gave to you to make the uploads work. Today I tell you all about that, in just a minute. Tweet This Post Read More →
WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep8: Pretty Permalinks
Yesterday I talked about checking out your cpanel’s file manager, so today is part two getting some pretty permalinks. The key here is editing your .htaccess file. If you don’t edit your htaccess after you switch the permalinks, your blog will get pretty wonky. By the way, if you can now subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or just regular RSS. Tweet This Post Read More →
WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 7: cpanel file manager
I’m setting the stage for tomorrow’s episode by introducing you to your cpanel file manager. It might seem geeky, but it’s oh so important. Tweet This Post Read More →
WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 6: Sidebar Widgets
Today I talk about sidebar widgets. I ran a few seconds over a min. I hope you’ll forgive me. Tweet This Post Read More →
This Week in Social Media Episode 2: Whither Newspapers, long live multicolumns
It might be a little late, but here is Episode 2 of This Week in Social Media. Now that I. mostly, have the swing of GarageBand I’m starting to do some fun stuff here. Regardless, in this episode I muse on how while printed newspapers might be on the ropes, the multicolumn design lives on. [podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/ThisWeekinSocMedEp2.mp3[/podcast] I hope that for episode 3 I’ll have someone to chat with instead of... [Read More...]
WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 5: Press this bookmarklet
While I prefer and recommend an offline editor for writing posts, I started blogging using the “Blog this” button on the Google toolbar. WordPress doesn’t have a button, but a bookmarklet called “Press this” and it’s a good way to blog faster and easier. [podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/WordPressMinEp5.mp3[/podcast] Tweet This Post Read More →
WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 4: WP.com vs WP.org
Confused by WordPress.com and WordPress.org? So are a lot of people, but fear not I’ve explained it in just about one minute! [podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/WordPressMinEp4.mp3[/podcast] Tweet This Post Read More →