The MarketingExperiments Quarterly Research Journal, Q2 2010

What Matt sent this AM:

“You’ve probably already seen the notice in your dashboards, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet:
http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

3.0 is faster, stabler, and more secure, so you can focus on what matters (your audience) and let
the rest fade to the background.

Custom post types, MU merge, menu editor, Twenty Ten theme, over 1,200 bug fixes… there’s so much
to enjoy in this new release, we’re really proud of it. It’s the best WordPress yet, and available
for a limited time for only free ninety nine.

Tell your friends, help them upgrade, write new themes that use the new features, spread the good
word.”

Love,
Matt Mullenweg
http://ma.tt | http://wordpress.org

A good demonstration and how to of screen sharing with Skype, good way to provide support, both users need Skype on their computer.

The download link for Google Chrome browser is http://www.google.com/chrome having been asked enough times for an alternative browser, here’s one I use quite often. Chrome is open source, and that’s the reason it’s listed in the open source category of this blog.

There are many “Contact Form” plugins available for WordPress, today I installed Contact Form 7 here’s the description from the install page.

“Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.”

Keep in touch, if you know of an alternate contact form that you like better than this one, let us know.

1. 24-hour shopping convenience
2. Ability to compare prices
3. Free shipping offers
4. Convenience
5. Not wanting to fight crowds
6. Ease of finding wanted items
7. Variety
8. E-mail promotions
9. Not having to pay sales tax
10. Wanting to avoid checkout line
from the http://tinyurl.com/y8zh5d4 WebSite Magazine post http://www.websitemagazine.com/

A sort of cool addon for WordPress blogs I am trying out today is Apture The website for the plugin is at http://www.apture.com/, have a look, I think you’ll like what is there.

The following allocation increases will go into effect for most hosting accounts and VM Server plans:

1) Business Class Email boxes will increase from 250MB to 1GB
2) Website Storage – increases two times from current published storage
3) Web Transfer Limit – increases two times from current published bandwidth limits

Details under Hosting at http://www.buyourwebservices.net

CyStats is a feature-rich statistics plugin integrated in the WordPress admin area. Features are currently:

1. Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists
2. hits, visits for day/week/month/year – human or robots
3. Top refering pages
4. Most read categories and tags
5. Most read, most commented posts
6. Most read feeds, number of feed visits today
7. Internal/external search words
8. Operating systems
9. Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics
10. 404 error requests
11. Browsers/clients/tools/…, w/o. version numbers
12. Template tags for most read posts, user count,…
13. Optional IP-anonymizing
14. Multi language support (currently english, german supported).
15. Optional tracking of admin area visits

I installed from the Plugins menu by searching for CyStats and installing same with a click of my mouse, and applied to the new blog for Route6Tour.com, that now has Happenings posts in their website via a WordPress blog. This stats program will help in that project. I will update this post after I’ve used this new tool some more.

In my morning reading I came across this article The Majority of People On Twitter Tweet For Business, Poll Shows and paused and thought, sure I should share that link it’s good to know. Besides I can’t just tweet it all the time, since there are 7 other people doing that already now can I?