Hello, my name is Charly and I’m a geek… and today, it’s time to celebrate. May 25th is known internationally as Geek Pride Day, and whilst it’s just one of the many days we can celebrate our inner geek, there are three reasons why May 25th is considered the Geekiest day of the year: It’s Towel […]
Networking with Business Chicks
I find some networking events annoying and possibly traumatic…. Big statement, and maybe a little overstated – but there is a lot of truth in it. Often the thought of attending a networking event, meeting new people, juggling nibbles and business cards just really doesn’t appeal to me…. Throughout my career, I’ve found the term […]
W3 Total Cache Leaves Sites Open to Compromise (WordPress)
W3 Total Cache (W3TC) leaves WordPress websites vulnerable to compromise. The vulnerability was discoved by researcher, Jason A. Donenfeld and reported on one of the seclists.org forums recently. W3 Total Cache is a plugin that enables site owners to speed up their WordPress websites by using a series of Caches. According to the forum post, […]
Wordcamp Sydney 2012 – #wcsyd
Wordcamp Sydney 2012 has been and gone – and what a weekend it was! Firstly, kudos to Dee, Alison, Tracey and Pete for a fabulously run weekend. Having run events myself, I know just how much effort goes into getting it together and running smoothly and I’m in awe at the great job these guys […]
Our Biggest Morning Tea
[audio:https://acl-training.s3.amazonaws.com/Podcast/bmtaudio-promo-acl.mp3] Listen to our Personal Message Ask Charly Leetham has once more registered with Cancer Council to host one of Australia’s largest fundraising events – Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, and has organised a morning tea on the 26th of May. The money raised will enable Cancer Council to fund crucial research, implement education and prevention […]
Google: Caffeine Anyone? The Latest Search Algorithm Updates
Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh. That’s the first sentence from the Google blog post about its Caffeine Web Indexing System…. and it’s incredibly apt! Just last week, one of my colleagues and I were discussing the […]
Sharing Your Latest Email Update On MailChimp and AWeber
Email Marketing can be a powerful tool for a Small Business however, the major limitation is that you can only market to those who have requested to receive your newsletter. What if you could post the link to your latest email newsletter on all your social networks and the like? For me, that would increase […]
Wishlist Member 2.3 Release
Wishlist Products have released Version 2.3 of Wishlist Member. This release addresses a number of bugs and makes Wishlist Member work correctly with WordPress 3.0. I haven’t had a lot of time to play with the new version of Wishlist Member 2.3 and I’ve seen some issues being listed on the Insiders Forum, so I […]
Are There Differences between Marketing and Advertising?
Many business people often confuse advertising with marketing – however, advertising is only a small part of the activity called Marketing. Marketing encompasses the complete conceptualization of a product or service right from the research, the design, creation and refinement of the product, advertising, sales and delivery. Each of these phases operate independantly, but collectively, […]
