Posts Tagged ‘themes’

Posted on September 9, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

All the Cool Kids Have 'Em: Social Web Profile Aggregation Sites

I’m not sure if it started with Tim Van Damme but he sure did kick off a trend of new “Social Web Profile Aggregation” sites or social networking profile identity aggregation sites. Can you feel the “buzzwords” through your computer screen, lol. Either way since Tim’s site was created one “Social Web Profile Aggregation” service has launched called Card.ly and now there’s a WordPress theme from John Saddington. Take a look at the WordPress theme below.

Hat tip to @Corvida who posted John’s WordPress theme on her Posterous site. It’s interesting that John calls his WordPress theme the “The Digital Business Card” vs  a “Social Web Profile Aggregation theme” but since the idea comes from Tim site which looks like a business card, I totally understand.

Back to Card.ly, I’ve blogged about it before here: 3 ways to showcase your social media profiles: Card.ly, DandyiD & Google profiles and since then a few other “Social Web Profile Aggregation” sites have launched such as hi.im. You can see my hi.im profile below.

There’s also chi.mp and Reallywho which that has a goal to be your “Identity Verification for the Social Web” service.

It seems with the explosion of social networks, social media and the social web, the next big thing may be social identity verification and aggregation. Something I’m sure Google is thinking about with Google Profiles and other services such as DandyID, Chi.mp and Reallywho. While these services are great for social web identity verification, they may be a little much for the average user who wants to just setup a cool WordPress site and promote their own social web profiles. If that’s the case then you  may want to give John’s digital business card WordPress theme a try.

Here’s my digital business card theme or Social Web Profile Aggregation Site as I like to call it at FriendWayne.com

Corvida has one at: OprahOfTheWeb.com

Jeff Cohen has one at: JeffreyLCohen.com

I want to say thanks to Tim for inspiring the idea and to John for creating the WordPress theme.

Do you have a similar website and what are you thoughts on the future social web identity verification?

Posted on November 14, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Charlotte WordCamp: It's all about WordPress, Design, Plugins, Promotions & Networking

This Saturday is Charlotte WordCamp also known as CLTWordCamp. The event is being organized by Creative Strategist, Jason Keath. (thanks Jason) The schedule is below and you can follow the conversation on twitter via the CLTWordCamp tag. I’m not sure about a video live stream yet but I’ll see what we can work out.

As this being my first WordCamp I’m excited to join others who are passionate about WordPress. Also I’m looking forward to joining other colleges on a panel to discuss promoting and marketing your blog and the keynote session from Mark Jaquith.

If you have any questions for not only for the panel but for CLTWordCamp attendees you can ask them here using google moderator.

Schedule:
09:45 – 10:00: Introductions
10:00 – 11:00: WordPress for Beginners
10:00 – 11:00: Meet and Greet
11:30 – 12:15: Technical & Design Panel
12:15 – 01:00: Lunch
01:00 – 01:45: Content Development/Technique Panel
02:00 – 02:45: Promotion/Marketing Panel
03:00 – 04:00: Keynote Speaker (w/ Q&A) – Mark Jaquith

Also I still want to apologize again to the Triangle, NC (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) community for WordCampRDU being suspended. Someone else will be planning WordCampRDU for 2009.

Again looking forward to Saturday for CLTWordCamp and as always follow the tweets (@waynesutton) for updates.

Posted on November 9, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Premium WordPress Themes Continue to Shine

If there has been any Web 2.0 company that has survived the 1st .dot com bubble it’s WordPress and with it’s recent purchases of intense debate comment platform and poll daddy, WordPress is on pace to not only survive the current bubble but may be one of the top 5 online social firms when it’s all said and done.

One continuing trend with WordPress is the quality of themes we have seen over the past few months and with a open theme community WordPress Premium themes seem to have taken over as the new cool and smart thing to do for theme developers.

Premium WordPress themes are great for not only WordPress but for anyone looking to launch a new website and looking for an easy content management system (CMS) as well.

Here’s a list of 7 Top Premium WordPress Themes via Digg. If you’re looking for a new look for your blog or looking to launch a new website, my suggestion is to install a self hosted version of WordPress, buy or find a free premium WordPress theme, customize it, start blogging or use it as a static page and you’re good to go.

Take a look a the themes and let me know which one is your favorite.

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