Here’s a series of articles on different products, services or membership sites that I’ve used.
I either currently use, or have used in the past, everything that’s reviewed in this section.
If I no longer use a particular product or service that doesn’t mean that it’s bad. It just means that my business needs changed.
Click the headline to read the full review and leave a comment under the article if you need any clarifications.
Somebody on LinkedIn today asked what the best platform would be for a corporate site with seamless blog functionality. No prizes for guessing what my answer was. Right out of the box, WordPress offers the perfect solution for a company website that has standard product and service pages, plus the ability to release product news [...]
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I’ve been using the Seesmic Twitter desktop application for a couple of weeks now and I like it. Mostly because I can read its screen easily. Its closest competitor is probably TweetDeck, which I reviewed here. Seesmic and TweetDeck have a lot of similarities, but also some important differences. Here are some thoughts on Seesmic.
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I upgraded to the official release of Thesis 1.5 over the weekend – here are some thoughts. Full disclosure up front: I’m an affiliate for Thesis. The official release of Thesis 1.5 must have been one of the longest drawn out sagas of any recent major product upgrade – there were seven (yes 7!) 1.5 [...]
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As a long time user of the What Would Seth Godin Do plugin, I felt like I was cheating on her when I tried out WP-Greet-Box. Worse was to come: I decided to end my relationship with WWSGD and start a new one with WPGB. Here’s why:
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A while ago I wrote a review of Tweet Deck, one of the many Twitter desk top applications that help you manage the enormous flow of information more effectively. I liked Tweet Deck a lot, especially the ability to create groups so you can follow particular people more closely. But one of the things that [...]
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My friend Bob Hartman pointed me in the direction of the Open Hook plugin for Thesis yesterday – and what a discovery it was. For me, that is – Bob already knew about it. I’ve written elsewhere about the Thesis theme and mentioned that, in order to maximize its powerful capabilities, one of the things [...]
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I’ve been a Twitter user for a while now, but I’d always been conscious that I wasn’t getting as much out of it as I should have been. There was simply too much information to manage. So this last weekend I installed TweetDeck as a means of rationalizing and organizing this constant flow of information [...]
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The last WordPress theme you’ll ever need. Bit of an extravagant claim, I know, but consider this: The Thesis theme for WordPress has been designed from the ground up specifically to enable non-techie users to customise and change the look of their site at will. Full Disclosure up front: I use Thesis and I’m an [...]
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