Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

Brand your blog

This entry is part 3 of 2 in the series Internet branding

This week, we’ve examined domain names and email addresses as they relate to your brand. In today’s third installation of our Internet branding series, we’re going to take a look at your weblog. The same concepts that apply to your domain names and your email addresses absolutely apply to your blog.
Like email addresses, it’s really [...]

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AuctioneerTech launches AuctioneerTweet, gets scooped

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As an effort to build and grow the community of auctioneers using Twitter, we launched a new website yesterday called AuctioneerTweet at – where else – www.auctioneertweet.com.
The concept is simple. Any auctioneer with a Twitter account can join and have his or her tweets included in the AuctioneerTweet timeline. A member list on [...]

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AuctioneerTech year in review

It’s time for a little year-end housekeeping. With all of the top lists being created regarding the previous year, we couldn’t help but join in with a top list and a review of everything we’ve done so far. Here are our top six posts that we like.

ATS designation – Auction Technology Specialist for auctioneers
Today is [...]

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Auction Podcast milestone – 1000 listens

The Auction Podcast has reached its first milestone. We’ve recently rocketed past 1000 listens to the series. Indeed, according to Wordpress plugin Podpress, each of the first five episodes has over 100 listens.
When we first started the podcast, the goal was a weekly release. We have some exciting plans for the podcast series in 2009, [...]

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Use Google Docs for simple web forms

Lunarpages is a company that offers very robust and generous website hosting plans. Their control panel is easy to use and automates the installation of many popular scripts such as Wordpress, Drupal, etc.
One of their value-added services is a monthly newsletter that they send out to their customers. The most recent issue discusses using Google [...]

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Auction website using wordpress

I theorized back at CAI in Bloomington, Indiana, last March that it would be possible to use Wordpress to power a website for an auction company. WordPress is a remarkable, extensible and mostly standards-compliant website scripting engine that allows for very easy content generation without website coding experience. AuctioneerTech proudly uses WordPress, and I also [...]

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Twitter keeps friends and followers up to date

Twitter is a popular social network that can be called ‘micro-blogging’.
Think of it as a way to post updates about what you’re doing. These updates can be sent by text message to update your status on twitter.com. Through the use of various plugins, you can incorporate these status updates into Facebook, MySpace, Wordpress, Friendfeed and [...]

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