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Posts from ‘March, 2010’

Jen Grant and Matt Riopelle Lead Social Media for Business in Corvallis

Two social media professionals from the Albany-Corvallis area, Matt Riopelle and Jennifer Grant joined the Social Media for Business group today to lead a discussion titled “Put Down the Megaphone, How to Talk Social.”
The turn out was fantastic. I didn’t do a head count but we did have people standing and sitting on the floor, which I [...]

Blog 4 Umbraco Modification Part 2: Multiple Blog Posting From the Dashboard With Umbraco User Permissions

In my quest to make the Blog 4 Umbraco dashboard work really well for a client of ours, I’ve been getting into the depths of the code and tweaking things.
I recently blogged about how to select the blog to post to from the dashboard when there are multiple blogs in Umbraco.
Now we need to limit [...]

Handout From Corvallis e-Tailing Magento eCommerce Presentation

Yesterday I gave a presentation to the Corvallis e-Tailing Group in town on Magento eCommerce Community Edition. We used Magento to build the 300dpi web site so we have experience skinning it, adding plug-ins, get plug-ins to play nicely, and extending Magento.
Overall, I have mixed feelings. I think its very powerful and has [...]

How-to Claim Your Facebook Fan Page Vanity URL

The Facebook Fan Page Vanity URL is a key piece to cross-promoting your Fan Page with the world on your cards, website, receipts, or wherever its important to have something short and memorable for people to remember.
Unfortunately, its not super obvious where to set it.
Clearly someone else has already blogged this so I found a [...]

Save Money with Ten Questions About Your Website Project

If you are the owner of a website and/or you are considering a re-design or a new build, here is list of ten questions that can help you save money.
A good web professional should be asking you questions like these as part of their service. But frankly, I would advise you to consider these questions ahead of time for the following [...]

Blog 4 Umbraco Modification: Allow Posting To Multiple Blogs From The Dashboard

We recently had a project for a client, MOM Magazine, that had the need to have several blogs on their site running independently, yet in the same CMS. Blog 4 Umbraco to the rescue! After the Christmas upgrade sprint from the Umbraco team I knew that the blog could handle everything they needed [...]