March 2010 – MMotivator

A brief overview of what you will find:

• Celebrating Milestones, by Kelly McCausey
• Extra Motivation, by Crissy Herron
• Are you going to NAMS 4?
• Why We Need A Life Roadmap, by La-Tara Ham-Ying
• The Organized WAHM, by Brandie Kajino
• What is a Tech Assistant, by Lynette Chandler
• I Fired My Shopping Cart Provider, by Kelly McCausey
• Goldilocks and the 3 Keywords, by Cindy Bidar
• What is MomMasterminds?, by Kelly McCausey

After reading through the MMotivator – if you have a comment or questions, please post it here.

What site do you spend most of your day at?

1. Facebook
2. YouTube
3. MySpace
4. Twitter
5. Flickr
6. Photobucket
7. Linkedin
8. Digg
9. Ning
10. Yelp
11. Tagged
12. Squidoo
13. Scribd
14. Stumbleupon
15. Hi5
16. Bebo
17. Reddit
18. Myyearbook
19. Technorati
20. Kaboodle
21. Friendster
22. Flixster
23. Xanga
24. Epinions
25. Plaxo
26. Mybloglog
27. Yuku
28. Metafilter
29. Blackplanet
30. Care2
31. Getsatisfaction
32. Friendfeed
33. Clipmarks
34. Cafemom
35. Newsvine
36. Omgili
37. Gigya
38. Ballhype
39. Current
40. Revver
41. Ping.fm
42. Tribe.net
43. Magnify.net
44. Diigo
45. Dzone
46. Xing
47. Faves
48. Tweetdeck
49. Ecademy
50. Twine

So what are you doing with Social Media and how involved are you?

Keep in touch!

Peter Prestipino, Editor-in-Chief mentions:

WP-Cumulus – he explains this as a 3D rotating your tags, categories or both.

Sexy Bookmarks – Share this with the world by using sexy bookmarks

ExplanatoryDictionary – great way to provide users with information without overwhelming them with click here for this and click here for that

Custom Login Page – change the background image of your login page, the background image and color of your login form, the main image of your login page and even add custom CSS

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam – Just a must for additional anti-spam component

Also I would advise you to visit your dashboard of your site and click on Add New under the Plugins menu and search for each of these so you are obtaining the most up-to-date plugin!

Best of luck!

SOLUTION: YouTube accepts: .wmv .avi .mp4 .mpeg .flv .mkv ONLY!

RESULTS: Converted the file to a .avi file.

Video uploaded to YouTube!

She was under 5 lbs. and was in the NICU for 2 weeks after she was born. Luckily, she was born very healthy and didn’t require many machines or special equipment. She needed some time to grow and develop and the NICU helped to provide that to her since she had to be delivered due to pregnancy induced health condition.

“A little help can help a little life!”

…a quote from my husband. We have been through a lot to have both of our little ones here but enjoy every moment that we can.

Please take a few minutes today and donate an amount of your choice.
You can click donate within this post or visit our Squidoo Lens that my husband created last night.

Thanks again for your support.
Every little bit truly helps!

~ The Jansma Family, Lakefield, MN, USA

P.S. Our main purpose for this is to help others. Our daughter turned 3 in February and our son just turned 1 yesterday. As we thought about their first day of life – we wanted to try to reach out and help others. Any money donated through the PayPal donate button above to MarchOfDimesDonateToday[at]gmail.com will be sent to MarchOfDimes at the end of every month, starting with March 31, 2010.

Please help by joining us today!

Photo Credit: MarchofDimes.com

There are several questions you want to think about when writing your first or even your tenth, press release. Matter-of-fact, I reached out to Cindy Bidar and asked her – what questions would you ask to write a press release for a client about their business… This is what she responded with:

Who is your audience? (Please be as specific as possible.)
What is newsworthy about your business right now? (What’s prompting you to submit a press release?)
What keywords are you targeting? (If you know.)
Tell me a little about you, personally, and about your business. (Your experience, how long the business has been in existence, how it evolved, and any personal info that is relevant.)
Contact information to include in the press release.

Cindy went right to the point and detailed out what is needed to have a press release that focuses on what is important for your business and what is prompting you for the press release.

Check out more details at Press Release Writing & Distribution Service… including a press release template and where to distribute your press release! Are you in a rush to get a press release written and distributed? Hire Cindy and Staci to help you make this a success.

To our Success!

WordPress 2.9.2

Posted February 15, 2010 by Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases.

Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2.  As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade.

You should try to keep your blog platform running the most stable and effective version. Especially in this case.

Have a great day!

P.S. Remember to update/upgrade your PLUG-INs too!

On top of my busy week I took the time to catch up with Regina on her blog, Keeping It Real with Regina Baker. I thought her blog post today was very interesting – read more for yourself…

And I highly recommend you joining me for her webinar. I can’t wait to hear what she has to say.

Webinar is on Wednesday, February 24th 9-10:30pm EST. You can sign up here…

The main reason why I highly recommend Regina Baker:

Regina has always been a BIG inspiration to me since day one. She reached out to me through MomMasterminds and after our phone conversation – she helped me understand that I can do this. I can work from home too. Knowing that she has been doing it already – was one positive mark but also seeing that she is successful and knowledgeable was two positive marks. After our phone call I kept the piece of paper that I took notes on. I still have that same piece of paper –I glance at it for inspiration and guidance.

She gave me the inspiration and knowledgeable that I can do this – I just had to keep moving forward. And boy did I!

Thanks again for your inspiration and your knowledge Regina. She is not only a mentor, but a Business Coach. If you are lost within your business and you want to discuss what you ARE doing, what you SHOULD be doing and what you WILL be doing in the future – reach out to Regina for her coaching.

You will realize that you can develop relationships online. And when you do they are priceless. I say this because you will find people that will just take from you. They will take your time, your freebies, your everything. But then you will also find people that give and take. They provide you with resources, helpful information, steps on how to do something AND you will also see that they will ask for your help because you might be able to answer there question PLUS you can reach out and ask them for assistance when you need it. That is a TRUE business relationship.

I have been honored to meet many amazing people that are clients, have been clients or business colleagues. My experience online has been truly rewarding and I look forward to an amazing 2010 and beyond. Just keep your head up and KEEP moving Forward!

BEST of luck!

I thought it was funny back in October when I was listening to a webinar that Regina was a part of through Business and Learning – but now that I am more aware and when I go to visit a website and see that it has been hacked – I just feel bad for the owner of the site.

Now they have to go through and tackle their website and try to keep the hackers out.

I took the opportunity of signing up for Regina’s freebie report that provided me with a few tips of what I can start doing to my wordpress website. After I conquered those few steps/tips – I was ready for more. I want to try and keep the hackers out so that way it is one less thing I will have to worry about when I wake up in the morning and see that I can’t access my websites and either can the world.

So next I bought Regina’s 15 ways report. [You can find both reports at AskReginaSmola.com] I started to follow the 15 ways to help secure my wordpress and as I was going through the steps I started to become unsure of myself. The steps that were listed was describing what to do but after a few email exchanges with Regina – I found out that my website needed a few extra steps before I can do what she was suggesting.

I then just asked Regina – can you do this for me? There comes a point in time that I just have to say HELP! I was doing good but now that I was trying to change a few things on the back end I was afraid that I would mess up my website or do something that could not be unchanged.

Received an email and a phone call from Regina – YES! She could help me. Whew. Gave her my information over the phone and then she was a busy little bee for the next 48 hours. Not only did she get my website up and running with a few changes to add more security – she left the new and old in place and monitored my website before completely the switch over.

Regina gave me full customer service by providing me with helpful tips and pointers while she was adding the 15 ways that I could add MORE security to my Wordpress website. Now I feel that I am unstoppable – and of course, any website can be hacked – and now I feel … it just depends how difficult you make it for them.

Thanks to Regina and WPSecurityLock: Check out my testimonial!

How Secure are your passwords and files when you email your VA? your partner? Do you add security to a file that contains important data that you don’t want the whole world to get access to? Check out my blog post about Adding a password to a file before emailing!

So – How Secure Are YOU with Your Business?

Here is what I learned from REGINA:

How to protect a compressed folder by requiring a password

You can restrict access to files and folders in compressed folders by requiring a password.

Important The password for a protected, compressed file is not recoverable. If you lose the password, you will be unable to access that file.

Note You cannot protect an empty compressed folder with a password.

To protect the contents of a compressed folder, follow these steps:

1. Double-click the compressed folder that you want to protect.
2. On the File menu, click Add a Password.
3. In the Password box, type the password that you want to use. Type the same password in the Confirm Password box, and then click OK.

Note When you try to move or open a file that is protected with a password, a Password Needed dialog box is displayed. Type the correct password in the Password box, and then click OK.

Works like a charm!