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Re: Selecting A Microphone for Web Videos and Webinars

mobile tracking software — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:03:21 -0000

Thanks for the info. I've been looking at getting a new mic. This has really helped me in my choice.

Re: Which is Best for Tracking Website Visitors? Google Analytics vs Clicky

Daquan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:13:45 -0000

BTW, wordpress is an amazing system to develop on.

Not only does it have numerous plug-ins to extend it, it's done in the latest standards and is very usable for clients with low tech knowledge.

Re: Which is Best for Tracking Website Visitors? Google Analytics vs Clicky

Daquan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:12:01 -0000

Great video! I love how intellectual and entertaining you are.

I myself am trying to learn Google Analytics, thank you! :D

Re: How The Heck To Be #1 On The Google Without Paying a Small Fortune

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Re: Joomla or WordPress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared

Reply SMS Hindi — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:56:44 -0000

Hi, I am not too familiar with Joomla. How do you build a Joomla site and incorporate a Word Press blog into it. I have played with Artisteer creating a Joomla site and it does appear to be fairly easy. I like the design and content I can create withJoomla.

Re: Get More Done With Multiple Monitors

Kevin Kane — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:17:41 -0000

How come you have a $1 bill attached to your monitor?

Re: Get More Done With Multiple Monitors

Kevin Kane — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:16:51 -0000

Adria, you're only the second female I've seen share her muti-monitor workspace online. The other is Claudia: http://www.hispaniclanguage...

My girlfriend just got a Samsung monitor. Its as elegant as an Apple display.

Nice job. My tips are here: http://www.kevinkane.com/20...

Re: What Geeky Gifts Did You Get For The Holidays?

Remove Red Cross Antivirus — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:02:41 -0000

I got roses:)

Re: Easy Online Event Scheduling with EventBrite

online scheduler — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:09:24 -0000

Hi,

It is good Easy Online Event Scheduling

Re: GPS: A Business Owner’s Best Friend

crv gps 8 inch — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:52:21 -0000

Garmin is another popular brand.

Re: 12 Reasons To Use Google Docs Instead Of Microsoft Office

gabriel — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:34:26 -0000

Now Microsoft is offering the same functionality with facebook integration what means you can share whit your facebook friends. Microsoft and Facebook together vs Google. Interesting war.

Re: Embracing The Change Of A New Job

Lee — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:56:26 -0000

Glad to hear you're loving your move to SF! I'm with you - I can't imagine doing anything for 15 years, especially not working for the same company! I've been self employed almost my whole life and I'm pretty sure I could never work for someone. But if I did, the job itself would have to be extremely rewarding. Take Adria's advice - if you are in a toxic job - get out!

Don't let the press convince you that there aren't job opportunities out there - employers are always looking for motivated, energetic, creative, and hard-working people. You just have to learn how to sell yourself. In fact, on the subject of selling, I am convinced that sales is one of the best skills you could have. I'm not talking about being a used car salesman - I'm talking about just knowing how to communicate well enough to influence others. If you don't have that skill, I suggest you start learning it.

I like the 20 minute format Adria! Take care!

Re: How To Get A Job In Technology With No Previous Techie Experience

Guest — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:33:08 -0000

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Re: How To Get A Job In Technology With No Previous Techie Experience

Guest — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:19:58 -0000

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Re: Joomla or WordPress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared

Karolsteve2 — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:04:11 -0000

joomla is for people who know what they are doing. Where as wordpress is for any Tom, Dick and Harry.

Drupal can be same with joomla, But joomla still is a way much better content-management solution that either of the two.

Forget the plugins, forget the extensions. Joomla can and will beat the other two competitors. SEO wise, joomla also outdo's the others. You just have to know what you are doing. Hence i say this blog post is very misleading

Re: How To Get A Job In Technology With No Previous Techie Experience

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Re: Essential Car Tips to Improve Your Productivity and Save Money

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Re: Taking My Shirt Off for Software, Oprah on Twitter, Punked on Website Gigs?

Sue at nobaddays — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:41:55 -0000

Hi Adria! While evaluating Zendesk, I came across this post. Preach it!

My company also hands out the mens’ boxy tees. So I recently made a skirt out of one and will be making a fitted tee out of a second tee soon.

My boxy tee went from this (http://bit.ly/c6Ia6z) to this http://bit.ly/cJ3pa4 and this http://bit.ly/dfZfft … commonly known around the office as “the VMIX skirt” as in “Sue’s wearing ‘the VMIX skirt’ today.” Ha!

Re: Easy Online Event Scheduling with EventBrite

Pengox — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:10:17 -0000

I have been using http://www.eventstorm.com The first thing that was enticing about them is that they have ALL the tools I need for marketing my event in one location. I can send email invitations and text messages to thousands of subscribers. It makes my life so much simpler since I don't have to transfer my contact lists between multiple sites. Another nice thing EventStorm allows me to do is to easily re-create my event in Facebook and I can leverage that as an additional tool to promote my events. Their email marketing subscriptions are the best value I have seen out there and their fee structure for sending mass text messages and selling tickets is also one of the most competitive. Definitely check them out!

Re: Why I’m returning to Ustream Chat

Danstep — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:43:22 -0000

How'd that work out for you?

Re: Joomla or WordPress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared

TianjinExpats — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:25:38 -0000

From what I've experienced, Wordpress is great if you have a blog or a primarily content-driven site. Drupal is great if you have patience and want to build a truly powerful web solution. Joomla is good if you want to get up something fast which has a lot of extension options.

Of the 3, I probably have the most experience with Joomla, as I've been using it for about 3 years, and have about 5 sites running on it. After 3 years of using it, I have to admit that frustration is setting in. My biggest complaint with Joomla is that there are thousands of extensions that are completely and utterly worthless, broken, or out of date. If you want anything that has features and works properly, you have to pay for it. Thus, you end up getting nickel and dimed for every single plugin, module, or extension on your site, and even then, most of them will end up with serious bugs or glitches that bring down the user experience. Also, pretty much every extension you install will have it's own annoying set of CSS files, themes, and hardcoded styles which clash with one another. It is damn near impossible to get a site in Joomla that looks and feels like an integrated website, rather than a bunch of separate php scripts cobbled together. Lastly, the default permissions system is extremely limited, and getting around those limits is a royal pain in the ass. I am told this will change with 1.6, but I'm worried that this will necessitate yet another round of painful upgrades where I once again have to fork out tons of money for half baked products. Before I used Joomla, I was using MD-Pro for my main site. The community was absolutely pathetic compared to Joomla, but they had certain things working better with their tiny community 4 years ago that Joomla today still can't produce, (IE, a bug free, integrated forum with advanced permissions).

Wordpress, I have used somewhat, but it still seems somewhat limited if you are looking to build a community website or something with interaction that goes beyond blogs and comments. Also, nearly every person I know who has a wordpress site has had their site hacked at least once, if not on multiple occasions. Perhaps this is due to the fact that wordpress tends to attract novice users who don't monitor their sites very much, but it has made me a bit worried about using it again.

Drupal, to me, is the future. That said, it isn't for everyone. The learning curve is huge, and putting together a site with all the features of an advanced Joomla site can take months, where Joomla takes days to weeks. However, the Drupal site will end up being better in almost every way. You can customize it to your liking, you can set up the permissions to restrict or permit whatever you want, and rather than installing a bunch of extensions to do things on your site, (ie a forum, calendar, gallery, etc), you use the drupal modules like tools to build your own. And the scary thing is, pretty much every module both works well and is free. It is an incredibly liberating experience, coming from someone who has spent the last 3 years trying to confine my community to the limitations of Joomla's extensions. The added bonus is that, for those willing to take the time to build a site properly, you are able to really individualize the look, feel, and most importantly, the function of the site. In Joomla and WP, I can look at pretty much any site and figure out in 5 minutes how they built it. Usually, it goes something like "used x forum extension, y gallery component, and z for their calendar", pretty much just uploading and enabling the software without extensive configuration or customization. Looking at the Drupal showcase websites, I could look at some of them for months and still not fathom how they got their site to do what they did. While not everything in drupal is perfect, I think that in the future, I can't see myself going back to another CMS unless I need something done quickly.

Re: Joomla or WordPress, Which is Better? 20 items Compared

RBellefond — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:28:37 -0000

That was a very interesting post as I am in the process of having my website, www.rbdata.com redone so that it looks nice and is easier to navigate but do not want to lose my current seo rankings. My current website is done in FrontPage. I have around 90 webpages on my website and and over 1,000 backlinks.

It was essential to me to keep exactly the same url names including the .htm extension. Anyhow, another item that you might want to put on your list is it is my understanding that you can do this with WordPress with a plugin but you cannot do this with Joomla. If I am mistaken please let me know.

Re: Maybe They’re Just Not That Into Your Business Card

Tomodo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:55:15 -0000

Thanks for using my photo! :)

Re: How to Talk To Computer People (and get your problem fixed)

Michael — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:30:14 -0000

This is a cool website but is it for kids too????

Re: Grab Bag Monday June 21st, 2010

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