I installed the WordPress app for my iPhone. I am officially going mobile.
Author Archives: Matt
It’s 2012 and it’s time to get organized
I have a lot going on outside of my communities, but that’s no excuse to not move my communities forward in 2012. My first goal is to get more organized. I need to a better system for making it through each of my communities each and every day. I should be able to contribute to…
Time to get back to my communities
One of the nice things about running established online communities is that you can take a break and things generally run just fine. I have spent a lot of time on my sports photography, but the primary sports seasons are over so back to managing my communities. My first task will be ensuring everything is…
Expanding and Diversifying
If you don’t grow, adapt, and change you will not be able to run a successful online community. That’s not to say you should forget about your core goals, values, and members, but you still need to keep up. Sometimes that includes simply apply security updates. Other times it might require a complete site rebuild….
Keeping Up To Date and Secure
One important aspect of running an online community is safety. Keeping your software up to date is one of the best way to ensure your community stays safe. Today I updated CommunityAdministrator.com with the latest WordPress software. I also needed to update the theme and 5 plugins. There are times when an update is simply a…
Playing with Google+
I have been trying to get access to the beta invite only release of Google+ (or Google Plus) and today it happened. They let me in. Silly Google. I plan a writing a more in depth review later but I wanted to share some of my initial reactions. The interface is nice and clean. It’s fast…
Getting more blog comments
There are many types of online communities, but all of them need some sort of interaction between you and members of your community. Brand new online communities have a difficult time getting new discussions going. Who wants to talk to themselves? A blog or forum without any comments will not entice people to post their…
Twitter Account Installed
Our Twitter account is up and running if you would like to follow up.
Should you start an online community?
Running an online community can be rewarding and profitable, but it can also be expensive and frustrating. Do you have what it takes to run an online community? What is your goal? To have fun, be an industry leader, make money, or promote your product are a few good reasons to run an online community….
Increasing Traffic Through Google Images Search
I have Google’s image search a million times. Okay maybe not that much, but I use it a fair amount. I have never really thought about taking advantage of Google’s image search to benefit my own sites, but today the light went on. Actually it was a slow site that caught my attention. One of…
