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April 30th, 2010 | 
Author: Hello everyone. I’d like to welcome all the new readers and subscribers we’ve gained in the last month.
We realize the comments were approved kinda slowly the first go around. We were a little worried at first but after 30 days, we have exceeded our goals of new subscribers by 200%!
We’ve made some changes to our comment approval processes, so you should notice a huge difference in approval times. Down to less than 48 hours is the goal.
We’re reading each and every comment that’s left here. We’re deciding whether it’s a legit comment or if it was some automated words spit out on millions of blogs across the world by a “comment bot”. this process was a bit new to us as we’ve never had this kind of volume before. If we’ve rejected your comment, we’re sorry. Please try again. We believe that we’ll be able to pick out the human made entries 90% or more. Once you’ve been established you’re comments can get auto approved after your first one is approved.
Another way to get faster and more consistent approval of comments is to use your Gravatar or Comment Luv ID when filling out the comment form. CommentLuv may be strange to those of you not in the blogging industry, but it, combined with “DoFollow” are ways of repaying those who take the time and effort to write thoughtful comments to the articles in on this blog.
How is giving a link helping someone, and what’s different about a DoFollow link? Well this page on DoFollow may help. For those of you who already know It’s probably still a good idea to check it out every know and then as we will announce our comment policy s soon as we can shape it into words on the DoFollow page.
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Tags: CommentLov, comments, DoFollow, link building | 
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I’ve never written about a discussion on LinkedIn.com before, but this one is a whopper. A question was posed. If you had to choose between two candidates for a job, one with a high IQ and one years experience, the other with an average IQ and 10 years experience, and everything else the same, which would you choose.
As Project Managers I find it a conversation we all should read. I personally found it quite enlightening and yes, even life affirming. You see I’m one of these people with a really high IQ.
This conversation is a fine example of how all discussion should be. It’s a conversation to hold up and say: “This is one of the good things about Social Networking.” sure there was plenty of disagreement and even embarrassing secrets that came out, but never did it to a personal level, nor was any rhetoric ever introduced.
Here are some of the things I’ve learned about HR Staff and my fellow Project Managers from the conversation on Linked in:
Posted in Client News, Florida Web Design Marketplace, Learning, Texx Smith |
Tags: Graphic Design, HR, social networking |
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I just published another Florida focused web site. This isn’t tightly focused on St. Petersburg but instead on the general FL market. And yes, to a search engine, FL is different than Florida, but their getting lots better. In fact if you search for most terms using FL, instead of Florida, just about everything you get will have the word Florida bolded in the descriptions and the url’s as well as the rare instances of the “word” FL. It’s good that that the SE’s are catching on more and more to the way people write and search. I’m guessing the competition from Bing has had a lot of influence on a lot of the fixes to long time flaws Google has made recently. Including the one where incoming links aren’t so important anymore and the words on the page are more important.
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Originally submitted at Radio Shack
Take your toy off-roading day or night with the new radio-controlled RadioShack Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.
Kicks butt
Pros: Durable, Easy to Control, Well Constructed, Long Range, High Speed
Best Uses: Outdoors, Teens
Describe Yourself: Parent Of Two Or More Children
This thing worked exactly as promised. Nowadays that says a lot.
Great fun!
(legalese)
Nicholas went around the house gathering all the money he could find. He placed it in a big pile and said “Mine” repeatedly. This is the look on his face when I caught him!
Seriously, this was some cash a client had me bring to a home show to use as part of a marketing event. I just couldn’t resist taking some photos of the baby in a big pile of cash, even if it was all singles . . .
St Petersburg Web Design and Florida Data Services have been good to me! Dream Designs by Texx Smith has just finished a huge data project for a contractor in the “My Safe Florida Home Program,” now it’s time to re-focus on expanding our client base.
As the Owner and Lead Project Manager of Dream Designs by Texx Smith, new clients are one of my favorite parts of the business!
Each client has a need for a new solution. It’s true, most of them want a web site for marketing purposes (nothing wrong with that), but each client has different things to say with their web site and their own take on marketing. Sometimes it’s adding a video (and/or making it), sometimes it’s making something so visually stunning people will just have to be impressed.
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