I've been using Grazr (www.grazr.com) to embed RSS feeds in my blog (e.g., see
http://www.ddmcd.com/egovernment/ ). Lately I've been trying Feedburner's
BuzzBoost (e.g. http://www.ddmcd.com/history-book-reviews/ ) and I've been very
happy with the clean appearance of a Buzzboost-displayed feed. Anyone else have
other suggestions for taking this route to display RSS feeds on a page?

Dennis McDonald
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twitter: http://twitter.com/ddmcd

I'm a big fan of Thesis. The flexibility is great, and most importantly there's
a huge support community dedicated to it.

I've used it most recently in 3 places, each site looks significantly different:

http://instigatorblog.com

http://standoutjobs.com

http://ispymontreal.com

I also like that it reduces the use of some plugins, which generally makes
things simpler and easier to manage.

Ben Yoskovitz
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--- In LinkedinBloggers@yahoogroups.com, Khalid Saleh <khalidhajsaleh@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am looking to buy a premium wordpress theme. I was wondering if anyone can
recommend a site that provides such themes.
>
> thanks,
>
> Khalid
>

You should start by visiting the following.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

Takuya

Hi Miki,

I just came across something that might be exactly what you are looking for:
http://openmind.sourceforge.net/default.html

Do you know your customer?

Many product companies make product decisions with a flawed understanding of what’s important to their customers. Focus groups, customer advisory boards, and one-on-one conversations all provide data points to determine customer wants and needs. But these approaches make broad assumptions about your users based upon a limited set of anecdotal evidence.

OpenMind enables you to build an online community with your customers and partners, allowing you to:

    * Find out what features and improvements your customers as a whole would value most
    * Engage in an online discussion with your users to gain deeper insights into their needs
    * Communicate upcoming releases, closing the loop on customer feedback – your customers can see exactly which suggestions became committed features of a future release based upon community feedback
    * Gain deeper insights into specific targeted topic areas through user surveys
    * Allow customers to engage in online discussion with each other and with you via online forums

OpenMind uses a unique allocation-based point voting system that creates an environment in which customers will make the same type of trade-off decisions that you do. It’s not enough to know whether a feature request is a good idea or not – you need to know which ideas your customers value most.

Product managers make difficult decisions every day – part of their job is to assess trade-offs in order to determine what subset of possible features and improvements to address in a particular release based upon a limited number of resources. For example, the product manager must himself or herself the question: “If I have ten items on a list of possible features for a release and I can only do six of them, which six would provide the most value to my customers?”

OpenMind’s allocations create an environment in which your customers make the same tradeoffs that you do. If I can only vote a limited number of times, I will choose wisely where to spend my votes rather than indicating every possible idea that sounds interesting to me.

OpenMind is in use today by Scribe Software:
https://openmind.scribesoftware.com/account/login

hth,
Paul

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

We are releasing a SAAS product  later this week and an important part of the marketing will be bring business influencers and people to the site to see the demo and rate/comment on the product.

The website is on a joomla platform and our developers say that there is both a blog and forum that integrate well with joomla. I'd appreciate your opinions as to which would be more attractive to business users.

Here is a brief description of the product,

Option Sanity™, is the easy and inexpensive SAAS way to predict dilution, strengthen compliance and translate your philosophy and beliefs in merit, fairness, transparency and authenticity into action when allocating employee stock options. All this plus time-saving reports and easy control and tracking of employee options as your company grows.

Thanks,
Miki

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Can you provide more details on who the users would be? Is this aimed at CFOs, investor relations, HR, etc?

I tend to think forums would be more attractive to a more tech-savvy audience. I also think forums denote a somewhat more "egalitarian" communications forum.

With a blog, there's the opportunity to contribute, but the perception seems to me to be more "we lead the conversation, but it's a conversation, not a monologue", where forums seem more "let's all chat."

My $0.02 before taking off for Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada.

Bob LeDrew
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

We are releasing a SAAS product  later this week and an important part of the marketing will be bring business influencers and people to the site to see the demo and rate/comment on the product.

The website is on a joomla platform and our developers say that there is both a blog and forum that integrate well with joomla. I'd appreciate your opinions as to which would be more attractive to business users.

Here is a brief description of the product,

Option Sanity™, is the easy and inexpensive SAAS way to predict dilution, strengthen compliance and translate your philosophy and beliefs in merit, fairness, transparency and authenticity into action when allocating employee stock options. All this plus time-saving reports and easy control and tracking of employee options as your company grows.

Thanks,
Miki

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                                                                                                    Hug a tree—don't print this email unless absolutely necessary:)

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Rampup Solutions, Inc                                                     

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Congratulations Miki!

And thanks for being such a great contributor to the community here.

Des

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--- In LinkedinBloggers@yahoogroups.com, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:
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Truly, it is a great accomplishment. Not many can say that. I'm honored that you chose to share that good news with us. 

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

 

Thanks Paul, your words are a great reward!

Paul Chaney wrote:

Congrats Miki! Way to go. I remember my 1000th years ago. It was a huge milestone. You deserve an award! :-)

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

 

Yesterday was my 1000th post at www.mappingcompanysuccess.com. I had to tell someone and you are the only someones I know who would have any appreciation of what that means:) Thanks for letting me share. I've learned a lot reading LinkedIn Bloggers—thanks for that, too.
Miki

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Congrats Miki! Way to go. I remember my 1000th years ago. It was a huge milestone. You deserve an award! :-)

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

 

Yesterday was my 1000th post at www.mappingcompanysuccess.com. I had to tell someone and you are the only someones I know who would have any appreciation of what that means:) Thanks for letting me share. I've learned a lot reading LinkedIn Bloggers—thanks for that, too.
Miki

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                                                                                                    Hug a tree—don't print this email unless absolutely necessary:)

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Congrats, Miki!

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

 

Yesterday was my 1000th post at www.mappingcompanysuccess.com. I had to tell someone and you are the only someones I know who would have any appreciation of what that means:) Thanks for letting me share. I've learned a lot reading LinkedIn Bloggers—thanks for that, too.
Miki

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# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Is there some additional or alternative code I can insert to deal with that?

Whenever I've raised this in the past, the admin of the former hosting service told me not to worry about it, but at the very least it's not tidy and I wonder if this list of pages not found has had something to do with the site's lower ranking lately.

Advice or suggestions will be appreciated.

Des

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Hi Miki,

Then there's no question... a blog is most useful. Fora are only useful for when users need to create separate discussion threads and would not, IMHO, be beneficial for this situation.

However, I would suggest you also use twitter and facebook to post snippets that lead to your blog posts.
Try creating posts that make people want to know more or ask a leading question, and include a link (shortened) to where they can satisfy their curiosity.

Best,
Paul

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

Hi Paul, As usual, I didn't explain completely enough.

I already have a blog that I'll be writing about the product on. My developers can set the blog up for people to access the admin to post comments, etc., more or less like a forum. So either would be for marketing purposes, i.e., comments, questions, etc. I'm not going to edit the demo comments, if someone wants to say they hate it they can say that. I believe that will make for more authentic evaluations (or am I nuts?)

The actual SAAS will be a private community, with it's own discussion area and bug reporting.

Miki


Paul Dube wrote:

Hi Miki,

The short answer... both.
You will need the blog to disseminate information and receive comments ON the product but you will need the forum(s) for bug reports and comments ABOUT the product.

hth
Paul

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

We are releasing a SAAS product  later this week and an important part of the marketing will be bring business influencers and people to the site to see the demo and rate/comment on the product.

The website is on a joomla platform and our developers say that there is both a blog and forum that integrate well with joomla. I'd appreciate your opinions as to which would be more attractive to business users.

Here is a brief description of the product,

Option Sanity™, is the easy and inexpensive SAAS way to predict dilution, strengthen compliance and translate your philosophy and beliefs in merit, fairness, transparency and authenticity into action when allocating employee stock options. All this plus time-saving reports and easy control and tracking of employee options as your company grows.

Thanks,
Miki

--

 

 

                                                                                                    Hug a tree—don't print this email unless absolutely necessary:)

Miki Saxon                                                                             

LinkedIn

Rampup Solutions, Inc                                                     

866.265.7267 Pacific Time

 Blogs: Leadership Turn (b5Media) and MAPpingCompanySuccess

To change what they do...change how you think!™

  

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--
Regards,
Paul Dube

--

 

 

                                                                                                    Hug a tree—don't print this email unless absolutely necessary:)

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LinkedIn

Rampup Solutions, Inc                                                     

866.265.7267 Pacific Time

 Blogs: Leadership Turn (b5Media) and MAPpingCompanySuccess

To change what they do...change how you think!™

  

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Regards,
Paul Dube

Hi Miki,

The short answer... both.
You will need the blog to disseminate information and receive comments ON the product but you will need the forum(s) for bug reports and comments ABOUT the product.

hth
Paul

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Miki Saxon <miki@...> wrote:

We are releasing a SAAS product  later this week and an important part of the marketing will be bring business influencers and people to the site to see the demo and rate/comment on the product.

The website is on a joomla platform and our developers say that there is both a blog and forum that integrate well with joomla. I'd appreciate your opinions as to which would be more attractive to business users.

Here is a brief description of the product,

Option Sanity™, is the easy and inexpensive SAAS way to predict dilution, strengthen compliance and translate your philosophy and beliefs in merit, fairness, transparency and authenticity into action when allocating employee stock options. All this plus time-saving reports and easy control and tracking of employee options as your company grows.

Thanks,
Miki

--

 

 

                                                                                                    Hug a tree—don't print this email unless absolutely necessary:)

Miki Saxon                                                                             

LinkedIn

Rampup Solutions, Inc                                                     

866.265.7267 Pacific Time

 Blogs: Leadership Turn (b5Media) and MAPpingCompanySuccess

To change what they do...change how you think!™

  

This message is intended only for the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged.  Unauthorized use is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee.  If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and advise us immediately.

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Paul Dube