Feature Story
Great to see that facebook pages are letting band page owners cross-reference their events to their group
Tell Mama has some gigs coming up in April that we’re really excited about and I finally took the time on the weekend to create a facebook event to promote the first one on April 7th at The Supermarket in Toronto. I wasn’t looking forward to doing it because, at this point, it seemed [...]
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Tourism’s MUSTs for the web»Tourism is still one of the most applicable industries to the web. Why? Because the web is the perfect tool for those looking to research, inquire and book travel. It therefore stands to reason that any and ALL tourism oriented operations needs to be on the web. And, indeed, most are. So, the question is now, how [...]
OnCouRSS offers low-cost ways to unleash the power of new web media»Helping organizations maximize the power of new web technologies – at a fraction of the usual cost – is the mission of OnCouRSS, a new local business.
Co-founded by local entrepreneurs James McBeath and Shelley Montreuil, OnCourRSS helps small and home-based businesses, artists, social groups and not-for-profit organizations take their websites and marketing to the next [...]
Well, this is it, our first OnCouRSS podcast - Jungle Fever, helping you to navigate the jungle that is social media. This is a good intro to OnCouRSS and what we do, it’s also a great way for you to get to know us a little better. So, sit back and enjoy the [...]
Facebook - a must for event planners»So, finished stacking up your friends’ list yet? Me neither. As with many social networking sites, quite often we reach that “Nemo moment”, you know, the spot where we’re all in our own plastic bag floating in the bay after a brilliant escape… “Now what?”. Well, a quick answer is start using Facebook as your [...]
Podcasting - good, bad or ugly?»Shelley interviews podcast specialist, Leesa Barnes, on the value of podcasting as a method of propelling your business forward and drawing traffic to your website.
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Tourism
World Kayak Federation launches new OnCouRSS MU blog»
The World Kayak Federation has asked OnCouRSS to build them a community, a community that engages in conversations from far and wide. In response to that challenge, OnCouRSS has built them a large WordPress MU (multi-user), one that allows any kayaker to set up their own blog or web site, much like Blogger and other [...]
widget review
Facebook mobile photo album has room for improvement but is still very cool»
I recently decided that I needed to find a more efficient way to take photos from my gigs and post them to my website because, to be perfectly honest, I just wasn’t finding the time to do it and considering that web promotion is my business that just makes me look really bad! I [...]
Create an animated header with Flashfader»
When OnCouRSS client, Homesol Building Solutions, requested a simple animated header that would be eye-catching and easy to view for rural users, Flashfader fit the bill. This plugin boasts the following features:
No loading time. The flash file is 2 KB, the images are loaded dynamically one by one
Can be integrated into template files, not [...]
WordPress and WordPress MU
The cart before the horse, the chicken before the egg?»
Getting started with a web site is always a really big job - gathering content, designing look and feel, managing navigation - knowing when the time is right to start driving traffic to it is an important question. Wordpress blog sites make this concern almost a non-issue. It is still important to get [...]
Is a WordPress website right for you?»
Do you need a website quickly and inexpensively? Do you want your site visitors to be able to interact with you through your site? purchase products or services? complete surveys or provide feedback? Do you want to be able to take control of your website and add new content often? If the [...]
