Cre8tive Flow

I was alerted the other day about a way to customize the WP Greetbox to be used for targeted ad placement by the author of Turn WP Greet Box Into Your Own Targeted Ad Program.

I decided to take a look and ended up adding it to mine and a client’s blog. I didn’t customize for ad placement but did mess around with settings to create custom greetings. For some reason, I couldn’t get it to render properly on my blog but it worked gracefully on my client’s site. Both are Thesis themes. I removed mine until I have time to figure out what happened.

We are thrilled to join in the celebration at the news of the birth of a baby girl for Barry (aka Rustybrick) and Yisha.

As our gift, we brought back a Mother’s Day logo created by fellow forums Moderator, Risa, of RB3WebDesign.com.

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Every forum you participate in, every community you feel are family and every social networking hangout you love has volunteering people devoting nights, holidays, vacations, days and weekends to serving YOU.

We, at Cre8asiteforums, think you’re all sweethearts.  PS…and we love hugs.

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!

Image courtesy of Risa Borsykowsky

Introduction

It is fitting that this article appears on the date of the US Presidential Election.  The reason for that will become clear later.  One of the hottest topics in Internet Marketing is what has been called Social Media Marketing (SMM). Many people are also acknowledging that they don’t really understand what it’s all about or what to do with it. This article will attempt to demystify SMM and suggest how you can use it effectively.

Vancouver-based business networking and technology forum Tazzu hosted Vancouver’s first official WordPress Camp last Wednesday, showcasing the great features of WordPress as both a blogging platform and a content management system. The event, which was expected to bring in about 30 people, had a turn out of over 90 at The Network Hub in Downtown Vancouver, but everyone was more than happy to sit knee-to-knee to learn, share and be inspired.

First, I want to make some comments on the reasoning behind this redesign. It’s not that there was particularly anything wrong with the old design — except that Wordpress is a far more sophisticated product now than it was when that site was designed, and we wanted to be able to take advantage of newer and improved features. With this new layout, we’re making use of “widgetized” space to create a more flexible and (hopefully) intuitive blog for Cre8asite Forums.

Thanks to Adrian for his work on the previous design!

The art of blogging still exists but finding truly creative, original blogs can take time. Sometimes blog writers themselves look at the “blogscape” and wonder why they even bother anymore. If a blogger writes from the heart, does anyone care?

When is it time to stop writing? Where do you get ideas to keep on going? How many posts is too much or not enough? Is there a reason for producing blogs other than being placeholders for ads or self promotion? Do people get any personal satisfaction from reading certain blogs?

Did marketing remove artistic expression?

When Rand Fishkin wrote What Makes a Good Web Directory, and Why Google Penalized Dozens of Bad Ones in his own blog, he was writing to his readers with his own voice, his own style and, as do all of us who write in blogs, at his own risk.

It became a trigger for Smackdown’s Michael VanDeMar, who wrote in his blog, Why SEOmoz Needs A “For Entertainment Purposes Only” Disclaimer.

A thought provoking debate in Cre8asiteforums looks at what has been happening as a result of the clash, in Professional Blogging…must Back Up With Facts? and what this means. We have a problem and it’s been repeated over and over for years and seeps into new venues, like Sphinn.