Here’s a short video that shows you how to add Categories to your Wordpress blog
In early June, Joomla 1.5.11 was released and I’ve been testing it for a few weeks. I highly recommend upgrading your Joomla 1.5.x to the latest version. Here’s the announcement from the Joomla Project
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.11 [Vea]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
This release contains 26 bug fixes, two moderate-level security fixes and one low-level security fix. It has been 11 weeks since Joomla 1.5.10 was released on March 28, 2009. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Download your updates here
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If you don’t want to install your own updates, we can do it for you for only $50 until the end of June. We normally charge $125 for this service. You must be running a version of 1.5.x not the original version of Joomla 1.0.x.
We will:
1. Back up your current Joomla 1.5.x website including the database
2. Install the Joomla 1.5.11 version
3. Test your website to make sure everything is working properly.
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Yes the rumors are true. Twitter has reached it’s peak and will start declining in popularity. Here’s proof that Twitter has peaked!
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In a recent newsletter Perry Marshall was talking about communities. Perry said a community was:
A community is a group of people who share the same stories
We’re all part of a community in many ways. The town we live in is our primary community. The people we work with is another community. The people we hang out with is yet another community.
Communities are all around us and we interact with each community in different ways. Just because we’re part of a community doesn’t mean we’re active members in that community.
I live in a small town just north of San Francisco and it’s a fantastic community. But I wasn’t always an active member of the community. For the first 10 years that I lived in my community, I just slept there. I would get up at 5 AM every morning and drive to work south of San Francisco. I would work until 9 PM every night, drive home and go to bed. I worked most weekends and rarely took vacation so I bet I didn’t even go downtown more than a handful of times in 10 years.
When I quit my job 10 years ago and started working from home I became an active member of my community. Today I’m a very active member of the community, volunteering at my kids school, coaching youth sports and helping raise money for the local schools and a community sports field.
For the past month my son’s high school baseball team was on a roll and the community really came together to support the team. His high school is an incredible community in itself. There is a strong school spirit that you just don’t see anymore. The students support each other and attend each other’s events whether it’s a sporting event, a play or a concert. The kids don’t only attend the events but they are active participants.
It’s great to see the stands full at almost all sporting events. During the recent baseball playoffs, hundreds of parents and students were actively cheering at the games, led by the basketball coach! Community members even came even though they didn’t have kids on the team or even in the school.
The student body knows all of the school cheers and is always the loudest student cheeering section in the county. They’re active and loud but they always demonstrate good sportsmanship. They cheer loudly for our team and they don’t taunt the opposition which has become the norm in many schools. It’s a fantastic community and I’m so happy to be part of it.
Last week the baseball team made it to the Northern California Championships and we got to play in the Oakland Coliseum where the A’s play. It was a dream come true for the boys, getting to play on a major league field (the parents were also pretty excited!). The most amazing part was that over 1000 people showed up to cheer for our team. Our school has only 1000 students and the town is about 10,000 people. It was an incredible community event that I’ll never forget.
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I was cleaning up my hard drive the other day and I came across a list of tips for cold calling (I think the tips are from Ari Galper of www.unlockthegame.com but I’m not positive. If you are the author please let me know so I give you credit!) .
Everyone hates cold calling because we all hate rejection and cold calling is all about rejection if you’re not good at it. These tips make cold calling much easier and less intimidating.
As I read these tips I realized these tips could be applied to social media. Cold calling and social media are exactly the same. If you try to sell your product or service to someone you just met on Facebook they will probably reject you . When you go out on a first date and ask the woman to marry you, you’ll probably get rejected (unless you’re on a binge with Britney Spears in Las Vegas).
Take a look at these cold calling tips and see if you think they can be applied to social media.
Because the right brain is…
1. Involved in process (not outcome)…
* Before you make a cold call, think to yourself, “My goal is not to make the sale but to create a conversation based on how I can help the other person.”
2. Intuitive (not calculating or manipulative)
* Avoid changing who you are when you make your call. There’s no need to be on “stage” or to sound enthusiastic. Just be your everyday relaxed self, as if you’re calling a friend. People know when you’re being genuine, and when you’re not.
3. Flexible (not linear)
* Throw out your linear sales script and generate a spontaneous conversation based on the problems you can help the other person solve.
4. Concrete (not abstract)
* Develop two or three specific problems that you know your product or service solves.
5. Holistic (not compartmentalized)
* Let go of thinking “buyer-seller,” and view the person you’re calling as another person, not as a “prospect.”
6. Open-ended (not rigid)
* Let go of worrying about driving the conversation “forward.” Instead, open your call with a problem statement that generates the response “What do you mean?” or “Tell me more.”
See what I mean? These cold calling tips can be directly applied to starting converstations with strangers on social media sites. You could also use these tips when trying to meet people in person at a social event. The operative word here is “social” which is the same online or offline.
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