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TelliTip 14: Improve your blogging with the Blog Extensions for GraffitiCMS

GraffitiGraffiti is really a great CMS solution, but you can also use it as a simple blogging engine.  If, like me, you are using it primarily as a blog engine you’ll want to take advantage of the blog extensions that have been released by Telligent.  Among other things the blog extensions adds a comments RSS feed, the ability to receive and automatically send trackbacks and pingbacks, the ability to ping blog update services, and support for GeoRSS. Here are the steps to install the blog extensions:


What determines the quality of user generated content?

On the Freakonomics blog they link to a comparison between recent YouTube and MetaFilter user commentary.  The question is asked if $5 can improve the quality of the comments.  You can guess what this looks like, but its worth checking out the difference in comments for yourself.


Is your application “ready to rock”?

I love this touch of personality… especially considering this tool is made for something that’s traditionally boring…


TelliTip 13: Check what version of GraffitiCMS you are running & upgrade to V1.0.1 if needed.

GraffitiIf you’ve recently downloaded Graffiti then you are likely running the most recent version, but how can you find out for sure?  To verify the version of Graffiti you are running you can view the page properties on your site.


TelliTip 12: Post Silverlight Streaming Media Easy

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From “asshattery” to remembering Kozmo.com in the year 2000

imageTime to check on on things I’ve recently found interesting. This post is brought to you from Google Reader by my Feed Inserting plugin for Windows Live writer.  Get your copy here.


TelliTip 11: It’s ok to re-categorize

GraffitiSo you’ve  been posting pages and content for a while with GraffitiCMS and realized that your original categorization of posts was incorrect. That’s OK, blogging and content generation are organic things and as your site grows you’ll discover what information architecture works best for your visitors.  But now you might be afraid to change your Categories since they are built into the URLs. 


Tellitip 10: Take advantage of excerpts when posting

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Defining user perception of social applications

image I’ve been thinking about the differences between developing social and traditional applications. What’s the difference, for example, between developing Word and Facebook? The obvious difference is that one is social and one isn’t. But what does that really mean?


Goals Really Do Motivate People

I love little things like this. It seems silly, but goals have been proven to motivate people. They don’t work alone, but when combined with other compelling expereinces goals can put your user’s average time on site through the roof.  A recent example of this is what you see in Linked in.