Fundraising for non-profits and special causes is always a struggle, no matter how large or small your Organization/Group is. Crowdrise aims to help all of the groups in their efforts. Crowdrise.com is a new online community of volunteers and fundraisers that are answering the call to service and raising money for charities. Charities can use Crowdrise to raise money in new ways by turning their grassroots supporters into grassroots fundraisers. It’s free, its fast to sign up, and most of all; its fun! See how it works below. Also checkout the interview with it creator, actor Ed Norton after the jump…
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American Express Small Business OPEN forum disscusses a little known secret to getting better Google rankings; Videos!
They explain that Google are increasingly using “blended” search results – articles, video, pictures, and other forms of content. So video inherently gets more play because there is less competition for video results.
Check the article out here.
Below are the meat & potatoes of the article:
1. Create some great video for your site. Note: Research indicates that if you have video on your homepage, up to 80% of your visitors will click that first, so it better be good!
2. Post it prominently throughout your site.
3. SEO it and submit it. Here’s the trick, and it is two-fold. First, you must optimize the video for search engines. That means key words and phrases must be used in the file name, in the captions, etc. Second, once posted on your site, you must then submit the video itself using XML tools to Google and the other search engines.
INC.com talks to the founder of one of the most popular blogs on the net, and goes into the story behind MediaTakeOut.com. With the very low start-up cost, and all the fun you have running them, blogs are always an attractive project for entrepreneurs. Check the interview out here.
If you are interested in starting your own blog, UtterJargon can get you all setup! – UtterJargon Blog Package
Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to go to WordPress Wordcamp NYC 2009. It was awesome! It really gave me a greater appreciation for the utility and definitely more of an understanding of where it is going. See some of the scenery, useful websites, music (yes, music), and reoccurring quotes of the conference below…
The Reoccurring points for WordPress Users:
– “When deciding to build a site, its always better to go with CMS over Static…”
– “Wordpress is like the swiss army knife of the web”
– “Wordpress is 508 compliant” (accessible to people with disabilities.)
– “Aways Always Always back up your database! (But you already knew that…)”
The Scenery
- WordPress Wordcamp NYC 2009 Schedule
- Session Speaker Starting off with Good Tunes
The Music
Music From WordPress Wordcamp NYC 2009
The helpful Links
CoreyEulas.com
ButYoureAGirl.com
AreYouSociallyAcceptable.com
www.StrangeWork.com
FreshWorkshops.com
WeLoveWP.com
Late registration is still available!
For all of the up-and-coming musicians out there, we @UtterJargon wanted to make sure you knew about TheSixtyOne.com. This website is a great resource for musicians who are looking to put their music on the web and possibly have it rated by your future potential customers: The General Public. The highest rated songs show up on the websites homepage. Once you sign up for an account, you have the ability to post music, pics, bios and promote your gigs and albums. You are also granted the ability to rate fellow musician’s music as well. If your not a musician, and would like to hear a wide range of new independent music, then just visit the site to keep fresh tunes playing while you work!
Get more ammunition for your music career here at TheSixtyOne.com
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Words of encouragement from Brooklyn designer Roland Reiner Tiangco…
I came across a very interesting essay while conducting my everyday research. Paul Graham, an essayist and programmer basically attempts to sum the most important things a Start-up/Entrepreneur should know while embarking on their endeavor. Check the list out below:
1. Pick good co-founders.
2. Launch fast.
3. Let your idea evolve.
4. Understand your users.
5. Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.
6. Offer surprisingly good customer service.
7. You make what you measure.
8. Spend little.
9. Get ramen profitable. (“Ramen profitable” means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders’ living expenses…)
10. Avoid distractions.
11. Don’t get demoralized.
12. Don’t give up.
13. Deals fall through.
They are some pretty great rules to live by. Check the essay out for yourself on PaulGraham.com…
As an Iphone user, I am definitely excited about the next software upgrade being released this summer. Those who are Iphone app developers are excited as well, but for more reasons then better phone functionality. It can lead to their next big payday. With the new software being released (and possibly new phone?), this will bring a lot of new people to the Iphone world, which will lead to more people buying Apps. Apple seemingly created more than just a phone with the Iphone, but potentially a mini industry. The app market is definitely attractive and certainly lucrative. The developer for the game Ishoot made $800,000 in five months with his app. The developer for Isteam made $100,000 in three months with his. Currently there are over 25,000 in the Istore, and those numbers are rising fast. With this said, this might be a good time to try your hand at some Iphone Apple programming and get your hand in the cookie jar as well. We at UtterJargon even decided to take a gander at the Apple programming language Objective C. We gathered up some basic PDF tutorials and have decided to zip the info up for you to gander at as well….
Iphone_App_Objective_C.zip
Good Luck,
-Webmaster
