Posts Tagged With: suggestions
· July 30, 2008 at 5:49 am · Online Tools
Always looking for a better way to get the thoughts of the crowd, I ran across crowd sound. What is this web site all about? It is less of a web site and more of a tool to help you uniquely gather ideas and suggestions from your followers.
We all like feedback right? Here is how crowd sound works. All you do is sign up for your free account, and then login. Once you do, you can embed the widget into your web site. Just copy and paste some simple JavaScript into your own design.
Now with the web site widget, you can add some entries. and then have other visitors vote up the idea or vote down the idea. So this separates things into the people who want to give you good suggestions and the people who just like to vote for things. You can also via the widget browse through the most recent or the most popular.
I think crowd sound is delivering a very unique way of looking at feedback gathering from your base. Those could be customers, they could be readers. The thing that is important is that you get their views to make your content better.
· July 11, 2008 at 5:33 am · Online Tools, Web Hosting
Here is a question I wanted to see answered on Plurk and thus far, there have been a lot of good suggestions. So who is your web host?
Need more? Check out the Plurk page to see if anymore suggestions have been added (or you can add your own!).
· January 21, 2008 at 5:51 am · Hot Web Topics, Resources
Time to hit up my feed subscription list to find some more goodies for you to enjoy. Today we are going to cover my subscriptions from P to S.
PimpMyDesk.org - One of my side hobbies (I guess that is what you could call it) is looking at and using some interesting an alternative wallapapers and icons out there to change up my computer’s look and feel.
Worthy Example Post? SnowRemixo -Wallpaper pack
ProBlogger.net - Another entry into the “duh!” list of feeds, I don’t know any writer (blogger or not) that couldn’t get something from reading ProBlogger.net. Definitely a daily read and highlight of my day for sure.
Worthy Example Post? How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs
Service Untitled - When it comes to customer relations, nobody knows better than Douglas Hanna. Ever since having him on my podcast back on episode 107 I have been reading his blog religiously.
Worthy Example Post? DreamHost Fiasco
Soft Tech Reviews - Another tech/news blog, Soft Tech Reviews is one that I stumbled upon by accident via somebody leaving a comment here. The content was captivating, the writing was superb so it made it’s way to my feed subscription list.
Worthy Example Post? Create Your Own Wallpaper
Only one more left - next week I’ll be doing T to Z then my feed suggestion series will be complete. I hope you have all enjoyed my suggestions and if you have any others to give please feel free to drop in a comment and let me know.
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· January 15, 2008 at 6:48 am · Hot Web Topics, Resources
We are coming in on the home stretch as far as my must read RSS and web site suggestion list goes. I am sure this will all get linked together once it has all been written, but till then check out some of these favorite resources of mine.
Life of an Internet Entrepreneur - Pinny Cohen’s blog is one that I can suggest to anybody and everybody. A true entrepreneur in every since of the word, watch a lot of what Pinny has done inspired me early on to keep doing what I am doing.
Worthy Example Post: Online Organization Tools for Freelancers
Lifehacker - Who doesn’t subscribe to Lifehacker might be a better (and somewhat shorter list) to suggest. They have been helping me “get things done” for a long time now.
Worthy Example Post: Better Gmail 2
Lorelle on WordPress - Lorelle’s well written posts and help via the blog here is one of the reasons I really decided to turn to WordPress to do everything. Still have yet to figure out how to get WordPress to write my posts for me, but I am sure Lorelle might be working on that one too.
Worthy Example Post: What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
Mashable! - I started subscribing to Mashable as an alternative to Tech Crunch, but over the years it has bee much more than a replacement. It stands alone when it comes to delivering news and tips about the new social Web.
Worthy Example Post: Pandora Now Available Anywhere With GlobalPandora
Mozilla Developer News - One of the best internal Firefox blogs and news feeds out there today. If you want to keep up to date with the latest Mozilla is working on, this is the site for you.
Worthy Example Post: Firefox 3 Beta 2 now available for download
Mozilla Links - Mozilla Links does a good job at catching all the goodies that fall from the cracks over at the Mozilla camp. It is one of my favorite resource feeds for when I am working on material for my other site, FirefoxFacts.com.
Worthy Example Post: Firefox 3 Beta 2 review
Official Google Reader Blog - Ever since giving up on a slew of other feed readers out there, I have yet to find a reason to turn away from Google Reader. Reading their blog means I too can keep up with what they are doing as far as the development end goes.
Worthy Example Post: Managing your shared items
Who knows, you might love them yourself and want to share them with others. Just remember who told you about them in the first place, and feel free to share me some link love anytime you please.
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· January 7, 2008 at 6:16 am · Hot Web Topics
We are almost reaching the half way point with my web site and feed suggestion list taken right from my Google Reader subscription list.
Google Operating System - This is my favorite of all the Google news, tips and tweaks blogs out there. If you want to know a little more about what is going on at Google this is the web site to follow for sure.
Worthy Example Post: YouTube Feeds
VistaStyles.org - The VistaStyles.org resource is for anybody who is a fan of making their desktop look just a little ‘bit better. No matter if you are using Vista or not - there are enough wallpapers, icons and more to keep your desktop different from the rest.
Worth Example Post: Longhorn Wall
Internet Duct Tape - IDT is one of those web sites I decided to subscribe to after seeing something brilliant they had done that had got them linked elsewhere. Filled with tons of tips, tools and tweaks on all aspects of our geeky lifestyle we all live.
Worthy Example Post: 107 t-shirts for geeks that do not suck
Kyle’s Cove - Kyle is just your average blogger who has found a niche in blogging about things that others find interesting. He didn’t start a Web 2.0 company or invent bubble wrap but I am willing to bet he’s more interesting to read than most of the two previous examples are.
Worthy example Post: Top 5 Free Software You Should Be Using
Next comes the part of the alphabet everybody slurs together. Should be able to pick some goodies from there for you to check out too.
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· January 3, 2008 at 6:20 am · Writing Advice
If you can learn to write by leading your reader and holding his hand through the work - you can become better than you ever thought you could be.
Writing is one of those skills that everybody can do, but not many can master. If you broke it up into a chart you would have those who can’t being a very small percentage of the pie, those who have mastered it being another slightly larger pie piece and then those who are “somewhere in the middle” taking the rest of the cake pie. Read the rest of this entry »
