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WordPress as…whatever you want!

Posted by tom.altman on September 29th, 2008
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I’ve been tracking BuddyPress for a couple of months now – I came across a post on Mashable today that was called “The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress“.  I really liked a few of them and a couple were just…wierd.

I’m not saying WordPress is a one-man-band, but it certainly seems to be shaping up to be more than JUST a blog tool.

I have already spoke about BuddyPress, the social plugins for WordPress.  But they mentioned an email newsletter plugin.  That looks cool – the biggest issue for that is a corporate policy at my employer regarding the use of a single system they have.  The big “feature” with WordPress seems to be the idea that you setup a category “newsletter – then things can be sent automatically…very cool.

Funny – they have one as the wordplace chat room – by using a theme called Prologue…I just had a discussion the other day with my co-worker why Yammer is silly and Twitter is a better option.  After review – Yammer is OK…I just have issue with them winning the TechCrunch prize by slightly modifiying a current companies plan.

My big plus for using WordPress as a platform – it just cuts down the clutter of applications, if it can truly handle the job.

So take a peek at the others and let me know if there are any Mashable missed.

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Behold the power of twitter!

Posted by tom.altman on April 7th, 2008
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Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted an article about how Comcast must be monitoring twitter.  He tells a story where he lost his internet connection and after getting frustrated with the customer service at Comcast, he blasted it over Twitter.

And this brings me to the point of this post. Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Comcast executive in Philadelphia who wanted to know how he could help. He said he monitors Twitter and blogs to get an understanding of what people are saying about Comcast, and so he saw the discussion break out around my messages.

This is definetly interesting and a way that business needs to be looking in from above, below and side to side – to what people are saying about them.

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Why can't you just tell me what it is?

Posted by tom.altman on October 1st, 2007

I hate this – I find a great link to something tat sounds cool! Flock – The Social Web Browser. OK – you have peaked my interest.

So I go to the site – and its like…what the hell does this thing do? I want to know why I should remove IE and Firefox and begin to use Flock. But I cannot find it anywhere – what the hell…just because this thing is “chosen as one of the TechCrunch40″ I’m supposed to change the world?

Wow – talk about a huge miss. Note to self – when launching a new product – don;t get so close to the idea that you forge to explain what job it can fix for the user.

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