The first meeting of the Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group is slated for July 30, 2009. We’ll be talking about a slew of WP topics, including: Organizing Wordcamp Twin Cities 2009 Converting rocking HTML Designs into rocking WordPress Templates WordPress Overview for Beginners WordPress as a CMS Details: Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group Kickoff [...]
I’m hoping to stir up some interest in organizing a WordCamp here in the Twin Cities. I’ll “run point” but could use some other enthusiasts to assist. We have a thriving interactive community that presumably should be interested in things WordPress. Any takers? Email jmyers at visi dot com or @jaymyers
Well, I’m back at it again…looking and researching Content Management software options. The last time I did this with any serious effort was about 5 years ago, where I had to endure endless talks with sales folks in an attempt to find out the real details of the products they were offering. Granted, it does [...]
We have two agenda items for this month’s coffee. The first is a quick “focus group” with Fred Beecher to help him gather some info to report back to the 2007 IASummit committee–it’s your chance to help shape next year’s conference. The second is a discussion topic proposed by Lynn Leitte: Content Management Systems: uses, [...]
Whew…I’m way behind on my Friday MNBits posts. Well, Summer came, and some major yard work, then we decided to remodel the bathroom, and then the kids started t-ball, and then…oh…I’m rambling. Sorry. So, on with the MNBits… script.aculo.us In addition to getting me thinking about having to now get my own ‘ious’ URL, this [...]
One of the must frustrating parts of our home-grown CMS we’ve been building is looking for a text-area replacement to allow folks to edit basic HTML via their web browser. There are as many inline HTML editors as there are CMSs. And, just like CMSs, 99% of them appear to be crap. I went through [...]
It’s Friday. Time to clean out the closet of links I didn’t get around to creating full posts for. Sproutliner Sproutliner is a free web-based to-do list similiar to 37Sig’s Ta-Da List. Ta-Da list excels in simplicity. Sproutliner sticks with that, but it requires a learning curve to reach it (is that an oxymoron?). It [...]
Last year when we first launched MNteractive, it was running on phpiCalendar for the calendar. For a while, it worked really well. There was a master calendar in my iCal populating all your iCals and this website. A few months back, phpiCalendar stopped spitting things to the website. When I went to their site to [...]
Alt Tags has a nice article on selecting a CMS. It’s geared mainly towards the decision makers…not necessarily the implementers, but there’s plenty of valuable information to be gleaned from it. The key points to take from it are that an organization must first focus on its content before it even attempts to figure out [...]
What the internet does really, really well is connect things through hyperlinks. The outcome of hyperlinks is connecting people. When people are connected, there’s a relationship. Websites are an excellent marketing tool. Like any tool, they need to be used correctly. To do so, they need to build a relationship between the company and it’s [...]