CRM Made Easy with HighRise
If you're looking for a Customer Relations Management (CRM) solution, I strongly recommend HighRise by 37Signals, the CRM solution we use at ReadyMadeWeb. There are a lot of other CRM solutions on the market, so why choose this one? It really comes down to four reasons: simplicity, web accessibility, price, and extensibility.
Read MoreShout-Out from National Review Online
Reihan Salam wrote a great piece at National Review Online today that outlined how the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a group made up of the MPAA and RIAA among others, is pushing for the US Trade Representative to consider countries that use open-source software to be added to a list of countries that don’t respect ...
Read MoreMy Live Video Production Setup
BoinxTV can free you from the tedium of video post production by enabling simple live-to-disk or live-to-streaming video production. Live production turns your Mac into a sort of TV studio in a box, allowing you to switch between cameras and other video sources, create overlays, and mix audio sources on the fly. I've been recording live successfully for about 2 months, so I thought I'd share this diagram of my setup.
Read MoreA Great Twitter Unitasker: ManageTwitter
ManageTwitter does one thing and it does it well: it allows you to unfollow the people who haven't followed you back. This is really useful if you've been following a ton of a people you're just overwhelmed with tweets. This tool allows you to cut the volume of your tweets and engage only with the people who are engaged with you.
Read MoreOpen-Source Success Story: BankruptingAmerica.org
When Clay Broga of Public Notice, a recently formed non-profit, needed a solution for a new web project, he chose WordPress. The result is BankruptingAmerica.org, a visually striking site that delivers news about the state of the American economy and federal fiscal policy.
Read MorePlugin Monday: Easily illustrate all your blog posts
Ever wonder how we manage to have a beautiful image illustrate every one of our posts on this site? Well, the secret is an incredibly handy WordPress plugin called Photo Dropper. It lets you easily search for, and insert into your posts, Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr.
Read MoreMaking Sense of Web Traffic Numbers
Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journal recently covered the business of web traffic measurement and how the data gathered by services like Compete, Quantcast, comScore, Omniture, and Google Ad Planner differs wildly. I'd like to shed a little light on why measurements from these big-name firms can differ so wildly and how you can still make sense of the world of online advertising even if the numbers are less than solid.
Read MoreGoogle Apps Updates
Google announced a few great updates to Google Apps suite this week, which means those of us using Google Apps (like ReadyMadeWeb) are getting free upgrades at no additional cost (we pay nothing to use Google Apps) and without any additional setup—this is the beauty of web-based software.
Read MoreTwitter Tool: Nest Unclutterer
Earlier this week I wrote a post about TwitBlock and The Twit Cleaner, tools for quickly unfollowing and blocking spammers on Twitter. Shortly after the post was published PJ Doland, fellow web geek and co-blogger at the Tech Liberation Front hit me up on Twitter with a link to his very own Twitter De-Spamming tool, Nest Unclutterer.
Read MoreGive Your PHP Code Even More Speed with eAccelerator
Many of today's best open-source CMS systems are written with PHP, an incredibly popular and powerful scripting language. PHP's power lies in its ability to dynamically generate pages, eliminating the need to code pages by hand in HTML. However, that same dynamism is one of the chief disadvantages of PHP because of the processor power needed to generate pages on the fly. Thankfully, that disadvantage can be easily mitigated by using caching programs like eAccelerator.
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