SureCART – A Simple Friendly eCommerce Cart Alternative
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SureCART – A Simple Friendly eCommerce Cart Alternative

Recently one of my customers had his Etsy store suspended (it’s been going around) and he asked me to create a store in his existing WordPress site. I used SureCart free version, which I have been testing on my own site, and had 10 of his items fully enabled within 30 minutes, after receiving their…

Top 100 WordPress Plugins – September 2023
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Top 100 WordPress Plugins – September 2023

The WordPress plugin directory is the most authoritative source of information about WordPress plugins. It is maintained by the WordPress team, and it is the place where users can go to find and install plugins for their WordPress sites. This directory contains over 60,000 plugins, and each plugin’s page includes the number of active installations….

personalTracker DB

personalTracker DB

personalTracker DB is an application that helps track information and notes on that information personalTracker DB is a compiled Microsoft Access database application designed to keep track of records and record progress notes on those records. Why use a personalTacker DB? Keep track of information easily and effectively Locally stored database (no need for Internet…

Book Recommendation: Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Book Recommendation: Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Good book.!  –   “The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.”   Thank you Wikipedia for summarizing the 12 trends that will forever change the ways in which we work, learn and communicate: Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using…

Scheduling Social Media Content Is Best Practice
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Scheduling Social Media Content Is Best Practice

Today, having an established social media presence is no longer optional; if you want your business to survive and thrive, it’s absolutely necessary to be active on social media. Social media content must be of high quality, interesting, insightful, relevant, and above all else, updated regularly; with so many competing voices cluttering up the digital…

31Posts: Twitter Channel Setup

31Posts: Twitter Channel Setup

Connect to Twitter: Twitter Channel Set-up 1. Register your site as an application on Twitter’s application registration page If you’re not currently logged in to Twitter, log-in to the account you want associated with this site Your application name cannot include the word “Twitter.” Your Application Description can be anything. The WebSite and Callback URL should be…

What is an Editorial Calendar?

What is an Editorial Calendar?

An editorial calendar is an arrangement and listing of pre-planned themes and associated content used by bloggers, businesses, publishers and other groups of people for the purpose of managing publication in media outlets. These include blogs, newspapers, magazines, email newsletters and almost all social media outlets. The main purpose of editorial calendars is to enable…

31Posts: Tumblr Channel Setup

31Posts: Tumblr Channel Setup

Connecting 31Posts to a Tumblr account 1. Log into Tumblr, 2. Register your site as an application on Tumblr application registration page Click on the Register Application Button Enter  application name:   31posts Integration Enter  Application Website : 31Posts.com Leave App Store URL and Google Play Store URL:  BLANK (empty) Under Application description, enter:  31Posts integration Under Decfault Call back channel,…

How to get Twitter API Keys

How to get Twitter API Keys

In order to allow an application to post entries on your behalf to a Twitter account you will need to get the appropriate credentials.  You will need to have access to the desired Twitter account.    The following four tokens / credentials are needed: ‘oauth_access_token’ => Access token ‘oauth_access_token_secret’ => Access token secret ‘consumer_key’ => API…

Going Paperless: Best Practices for Scanning then Shredding Paper Documents
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Going Paperless: Best Practices for Scanning then Shredding Paper Documents

Part of the Going Paperless Series Companies that are making the change to a paperless office want to shred the originals and only keep a digital copy. This is an excellent way to archive documents, but you should follow these recommendations to avoid the loss of a document: Photo Credit: By Jonathan Joseph Bondhus (Own…

Couldn’t make MMS 2012 conference?
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Couldn’t make MMS 2012 conference?

Not to worry!   Microsoft has posted all of the PowerPoint and videos at http://www.mms-2012.com/digitalmms    regardless if you attended or not, you can register and browse through the sessions…   Thank you  Microsoft!!    For those of you that want to download the content for offline viewing: Videos:   Stefan Roth has created a PowerShell script that will…

Move from Physical Image to Virtual
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Move from Physical Image to Virtual

There are many reasons you would like to convert a Desktop/ Laptop image into a virtual image.  They may include: Backup / easy recovery Want to access your image while on the road Tired of traveling with multiple devices Today is fairly easy to convert a physical desktop/laptop into a virtual one. Although I focus…

Cloud Computing – Basics
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Cloud Computing – Basics

Microsoft’ Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Online,  made available  a basic but interesting video  on his views on cloud computing adoption which he expressed at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Boston, MA For one thing, chief information officers are uncertain how to fashion a roadmap that brings “cloud services” into their IT architecture….