At a glance: Web conferencing & remote training software from GoToMeeting

We have 3 main uses for web conference & remote training software:

  1. Team meetings because we are distributed across multiple locations
  2. Remote training for clients who don’t want on site training
  3. Technical Support for clients or cross department support

We’ve used a few (of the hundreds?) of web conf/meeting options and are finding GoToMeeting definately one of the better ones.

Quick glance features and things we like:

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Best UK Web Hosting for Multiple WordPress Sites

Having tried out quite a few web hosts I think that Heart Internet are currently the best UK web hosting company for multiple WordPress sites.

Here’s a list of the main things I like about their Reseller Hosting for hosting WP sites primarily. Everything is optional and free unless stated.

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The Fun Friday Roundup 21st May 2010

What we’ve done in work

  • Worked on various WordPress Themes, and WordPress, Drupal and .Net CMS support.
  • A hideous amount of banners in both english and spanish.
  • Flash galleries with over 300 images
  • Built 3 new WordPress based sites
  • Literally a SEA of site updates
  • Took on a WordPress developer full time
  • Bugfixing Cold Fusion applications
  • Started building our next in-house project (will post about it next week)

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10 Best WordPress Plugins in 2010

Anytime we build a WordPress site for a client we nearly always end up installing the same plugins initially as they are typically useful on every site nowadays regardless of the goals of the site.

If you are using WordPress for your site and not using any of these plugins they are well worth checking out. I’d got as far as to say these are THE 10 essential wordpress plugins right now.

Some enable clients to manage more aspects of the site for themselves, some help them manage the site by reducing the work they have to do and others work behind the scenes to improve the site’s effectiveness.

Obviously this list is accurate at the time of writing but we will revisit it and update it if needbe throughout 2010 to keep it relevant. They are listed alphabetically as we are not ranking them. Why do people do plugin ranking lists? They are only either useful or not. Anyway…

Let’s get to it. On with the 10 best wordpress plugins in 2010:

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The Fun Friday Roundup 14th May 2010

What we’ve done in work

  • Configured & launched a Sharepoint intranet
  • Customised a WordPress search results template
  • Built a WordPress site for a new client
  • Simon gave Chris the nickname of ‘GA Baracus’ and threatened to make a logo for it…
  • Updating around 40 live sites for clients
  • Put out 5 quotes for new website builds and redesigns
  • Started upgrading sites to Drupal 6
  • Built lots of presentations using PPT’s and audio files using SlideShare
  • Setting up a new Support Web system in Cold Fusion
  • Planning A/B website call to actions testing for a client
  • Built a TON of web banners!
  • Remote client training for CMS

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Go Daddy's EU Hosting is Useless for Multiple WordPress Sites

If you’re looking for a UK or EU based solution for hosting multiple WordPress sites then save yourself a huge headache and avoid Go Daddy’s new EU hosting plan.

The 2 major problems:

  1. The multiple locations, random selection, unwanted site migration and undisclosable details of the EU Data Centres
  2. The preview DNS functionality for domains you have not transferred to them

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The Fun Friday Roundup 7th May 2010

What we’ve done in work

  • Advertising for a new HTML developer and Word Press developer
  • Lots of office hunting
  • Migrating existing Blogger blogs to www.dotnetblogengine.net due to Google switching off the Blogger FTP service.
  • Tinkering with SlideShare
  • Completing 2 large Word Press projects and starting another
  • Designing about 1 million web banners
  • Integrating a site we built with a 3rd party CRM
  • In depth SEO analysis of a site for a new client
  • Updating around 60 live sites for clients
  • Creating a daily csv export of user data for a company in Oxford

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Book Review: Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk

Crush It Gary VaynerchukJust finished reading Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk.

About the author. Gary is, self admittedly, a love or hate type of character. He’s got a big personality, he’s very blunt and extremely passionate.

This is instantly recogniseable if you watch his interviews, keynote talks and online communication channel, Wine Library TV.

I can understand why some people might find him hard to watch. He swears quite a lot, if wine tastes like vomit he says it does and I can imagine a lot of people thinking he’s over the top and arrogant.

Personally I don’t mind swearing, I’d rather he told me that wine tasted like vomit before it cost me £27 to find out for myself and I think he’s just confident and doesn’t feel the need to waste his life trying to convince people it isn’t arrogance instead of doing more of what he loves most.

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