It’s 2:30AM and I’ve just upgraded my blog to WordPress 3.o
I spent 30 mins taking a backup of my database and my files, afraid that something would go dreadfully wrong and wipe out my whole online existence. Maybe I am just a cynic. Then I hit the “Upgrade” link and held my breath. It took all of 30 seconds or less and I had the latest and greatest edition of the best blogging platform known to man.
It looks like the WordPress folks, have added a lot of new features in this new release, but the ones I like best are the custom menus (can’t use them with my current theme unless I use a custom menu widget) and the one click update all plugins feature. They have also integrated WordPress MU, into the single user installation and added the capability to create custom post types (similar to the Drupal CCK). However, I have yet to figure out, what’s really changed for Buddypress.
Here’s the demo video – check out the new features in WordPress 3.0
At a time when most companies are trying to figure out how to leverage social media to their advantage - some companies like Name.com are well ahead of the game and are already using social media to gain a competitive advantage.
I experienced this myself, a couple of days ago. I had a problem with some Name.com domains that I own and I wrote a blog post about it. Next morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a comment on the post from Lesley, a “Community Manager” at Name.com. She left an email address and asked me if I could drop her an email describing the error. I managed to tinker around a bit and solve the problem (it was the DNS settings caused by activating Google Apps on the domains). I haven’t gotten around to writing the email, but I must admit I like Name.com much more than I did before. What a great effect a small comment on a blog post can have.
I’ve always thought that Name.com is a great company (I buy all my domain names from them), but it’s great to know that they are using social media to reach out to their customers and to help them with their problems.
A couple of days ago I over heard a very senior person say - “we should minimize the number of mistakes we make”. He’s a six sigma person – a person who tries to map every business scenario in a spreadsheet – a futile gesture (personally I think he’s a dreadfully horrible manager).
The mistakes that I have made have taught me everything that I know today. Where would I be if I hadn’t made the mistakes that I’ve made? I’d definitely not be the person I am today.
I feel; that I am a better person for all the mistakes I’ve made and I’ve learnt a lot from every mistake that I’ve ever made.
I deleted my previous website which was built in Joomla and re-installed WordPress. Joomla is a great CMS, but using it to maintain a blog is too cumbersome. I just decided that WordPress will be a much better option for a blog.
I totally agree - it's the only good thing RT @gkhamba So the best thing to come out of the Iraq war was Call of Duty 4 about 5 days ago (reply)
what i do - who i am - nothing matters. Nothing matters except the lives i enrich... about 7 days ago (reply)
it's n experiment - 2 find da real meaning of twitter - it doesn't matter how many followers I lose - if in da end comes understanding about 7 days ago (reply)
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