Ok, I don’t know how to do this yet but I’m wondering if you do?
I’ve ignored this blog for about 3 or 4 weeks and have gotten roughly 10 spam comments a week. I take that as a hint that I’ve got a good potential for traffic with my focus on success.
Anyway, with my current Word Press settings, I get notified when I approve a comment, but not when one comes in. Obviously this doesn’t do *me* any good. Does anyone know where I can find this information?
I love the internet,siamesegirl101 over at YouTube put a metric ton of work into coming up with the lyrics for the amazing Baljeatles song “Give Me A Grade!”
There were a few errors in her initial lyrics, and so I was going through adding what I could figure out, and she happened to be on and we started putting it together. I never would have figured out “taking beatings from my drummer”.
Again, thanks go out to siamesegirl101 for the making this available. Here are the lyrics for “Give Me A Grade!” Now I have to go listen to “I’m Me”
(Disney – Please, for the love of all that is holy, put Phineas and Ferb out in complete season sets, then tell me where to pre-order)
The Baljeatles: Give Me A Grade!
Pardon me, I want to try something!
Oh yeah!
I have got something to say!
I have been burned by vague lesson plans and a free-floating curriculum!
I like my rules, baby, etched in stone, ’cause you know I am going to stick to them!
Phineas and Baljeet: Can I get a syllabus, a little discipline? Judge me on a scale from A to F!
You wasted all my time learning how to rhyme, now let me hang it from a treble clef!
Baljeet: Somebody give me a grade!
Ferb and Phineas: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade
Baljeet: I need the man keeping me down! Somebody give me a grade!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: Is there a red pen in this town? Somebody give me a grade!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: I already said it, I need that extra credit today!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: And make it an A!
Oh, I am so upset!
I am stone cold honor role! I won’t be told how to vent!
Phineas and Baljeet: I won’t cry on the side, I’m here to testify. Up with the establishment!
Baljeet: My parents understand me, for conformity inside of me (with) which I can help the system out!
I ain’t gonna waste my summer taking beatings from my drummer,
Put a mic in front of me and I’ll shout!
Give me a grade!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: You know I’m going rock the curve! Somebody give me a grade!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: The only letter I deserve! Somebody give me a grade!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: This isn’t a request, I demand there be a test today!
Phineas and Ferb: Somebody give me a grade, somebody give me a grade!
Baljeet: Give me a grade!
Doofenshmirtz: Oh oh. Not good.
Curse you Perry the – Wait! Is that the Baljeatles?
When it comes to a new idea, a mentor once told me that my feelings and past experiences are lousy tools for evaluating that new idea.
What he said was something to the effect of, “You need to join the let’s-find-out club. Will that idea work? I don’t know, let’s find out”
At the same time, if you are using someone’s already successful system and that system has worked for others, but not for you, just maybe, you’re not really following their system.
And don’t say, “but we’re different here.” No you’re not, you’re just unwilling (or in some corporate settings, not allowed) to make the changes dictated by the successful system.
I once heard a trainer explain
If I told you to dial (555) 123 – 4567, give my friend on the other end your name & address, and he’ll send you a check for $100, don’t come back to me and say,
“I tried your system, and it didn’t work, I didn’t dial the number in the order you gave me, but I dialed all the numbers”
“I tried your system, and it didn’t work, I didn’t use the number 4 because I don’t like to press the number 4, so I just replaced it with two 2′s.”
“I tried your system, and it didn’t work, I put in the first 6 digits and didn’t get any result, so I didn’t bother to finish implementing your system you fraud.”
Laugh, but I have watched people, at great expense, implement their version of other peoples systems and then complain that not only did the original system not work, but that the people explaining the system were unyielding zealots who didn’t understand how things worked in the real world.
This site is the product of my wife’s business and the Thirty Day Challenge (also known in twitter-space as #30dc) As such, part of the pre-season homework was to learn about Social Marker. While I was at the Social Marker site, I noticed a section at the bottom of the page talking about code to add for your blog. Since I had a wordpress account I decided to give it a shot and document my progress. This post will be about how to set that up in word press it assumes that you are logged in as the wordpress administrator.
Step One – Click “Plugins” on “Edit Post” Screen
Step Two – Search for “socialmarker” and press “Install” (all the way over at the right)
Finally, Step Three – Wait till the install is done, and then click “Activate Plugin” (and yes, I did miss getting the screen shot of the confirmation screen between steps two and three)
Ta-da, you are now done. You should now see the following icon at the bottom of all of your posts.
Now the tricky part is going to be figuring out how to get my screen shots to show up on the page the way I want them to. Stay tuned.
One of the points of this blog is to provide a trail for other people to follow. Below are a list of things that really need to get done. What may not be obvious is the why behind the tasks.
Add Google Analytics to site
Saying that Google Analytics is an amazing product is to under utilize the word amazing. I was first introduced to Google Analytics a couple of weeks ago in the Thirty Day Challenge. If you are doing anything on the internet, you HAVE to know how much traffic you are getting and where it is coming from. Google Analytics provides that information. [Edit: Adding Google Analytics was a snap and this was completed about 20 minutes later after the initial post]
Add sign up / sign in page for registered users
We are going to need users. Clients, customers, contributors, friends, relatives, the list goes on, and we’re going to need a place for them to get together and mingle. We’re also going to need contact info from them to keep them up to date on what is going on here at the site. Or at least keep the one’s that want to be kept up to date, up to date.
Find out if there is a face book – word press linking app
There has got to be a way that my face book entries and my tweets can be reflected on this site. Now the question is “how?”
Install a shopping cart and use it for free stuff to get the gears moving
We’re going to need a shopping cart sooner or later, and by managing free stuff with it, all the sand can be worked from the gears before we ever try to run a single red cent through the machinery.
I did not start the evening with the intent to upgrade my Word Press installation, but apparently it’s something that I should probably get done, and hey, I’m supposed to be some kind of tech-head right? Or at least I used to be.
I may be soon learning why people outsource their web administration.
[edit]
That went smoothly. A little bit of research revieled that the steps were as follows.
1) Back up web-site – that led to some more research, but it turned out to be a button push
2) Find out if my host supports automatic WordPress upgrades (it does)
There comes a time that your new business needs a web site. The question becomes, how are you going to start. As the weeks go on, I will be keeping this blog updated with our progress.
While I was at the Social Marker site, I noticed a section at the bottom of the page talking about code to add for your blog. Since I had a wordpress account I decided to give it a shot and document my progress. This post will be about how to set that up in word press it assumes that you are logged in as the wordpress administrator.
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