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Reading The Startup Tea Leaves

As I slowly (I mean slowly) move into my new startup venture called Take It National, I have been thinking about a series of events that have happened over the past year.  Its these series of events that have lead me to this startup.  So, I tell people that this startup was not our choice, but [...]

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WordPress 3.0 Upgrade & WordPress Multi-Site

If you are a WordPress junkie like me, you will be taking a look at the WordPress 3.0 release which came out today.   The only big deal about it, is the ability to turn a simple WordPress install into a Multi-Site WordPress Install (or WordPress MU). 
My initial running of the install did not have any [...]

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Startup-Rules Addendum

Startup Rules Revisited
Since I wrote my last blog entry, Start-up Rules For Real People, I have had some meetings, some epiphanies, some conincidences that were quite ironic, that I have to write an addendum for those who read my first article about these start-up rules.  Basically almost every other day, somebody talks with me about an [...]

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New Rules For Start-ups For Regular People

For many years I have always met with entrepreneurs to go through their plans for their tech start-up.  Not that I am any bit an expert.  With mostly 18 years of corporate experience, this really puts me in the corporate camp. Then there are the failed start-ups and the eventually the successful ones.  This means [...]

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The Art Of Converting A Design To A WordPress Theme – Part 1

As we have gotten more and more into WordPress, eventually you will get to the point where you need to take a design and convert it to a WordPress theme.  I am by no means an expert, and I am learning a little more about WordPress every day.   I am going to go through, [...]

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Michelle Gudema Offers New Consulting Services

Michelle Gudema has begun consulting marketing services in the Greater New York City Area.
Michelle is now associated with this website and can be contacted through this site.  Michelle’s experience and background is listed below:
Greater New York City Area
Michelle Gudema & Strategic Points in Greater New York City Area
Marketing Operations Consultant
Michelle Gudema is an executive with [...]

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Enterprise WordPress – Things You Have to Change – Robots.txt, wp-config.php, etc.

After all the hullabaloo in getting WordPress ready and implemented for the enterprise, with a DEV, QA and PROD environment, there are a lot of small gotchas that are still sitting around.  For those of you trying out WordPress for the Enterprise level, these are the little gotcha’s to worry about, and Robots.txt is one [...]

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Load Balancing Wordpress In Multiple Data Centers

When you work for an enterprise level company, things need to be accomplished at an enterprise level.  So, that is why we have taken a variety of wordpress implementations, from basic to complex plugins and begun load balancing WordPress.  To make things more complicated, the servers involved are not going to be in the same [...]

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How Many Uses Can Evernote Have?

Since listening to Guy Kawasaki Tweet (Another plug for Guy!  Guy you have to follow me @dgudema for that one!) on about Evernote.com, I have been intrigued enough to start using Evernote, and after a while I came to the conclusion that this is a pretty good solution for virtual postit notes.
How Does Evernote Work?
Basically [...]

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Optimizing WordPress For SEO – Categories

This article will discuss how and why to optimize WordPress For SEO through the use of Categories in WordPress.  While this is not complicated, the secret behind Categories is using them often and appropriately in WordPress.
What’s The Point Of Creating Categories?
Well, actually Categories are content, and content is used by Search Engines to find you.  [...]

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