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    Gary
    3 Feb 2012 | 5:01 am
    Would you like to post videos to your blog while you’re on the go? Are you interested in a photography theme that’s also video-friendly? Well, look no further, because we have some news for you. The VideoPress upgrade, which allows you to upload and embed your own videos on your blog, now comfortably handles videos from iPhones and iPads. You can shoot vertically or horizontally, and we’ll take care of rotating it for you so that your video looks great when it’s published on your site. If you don’t already have VideoPress on your WordPress.com account, head on…

  • New Themes: Currents and Debut

    Takashi Irie
    2 Feb 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Today, I’m excited to introduce the latest additions to our collection of premium themes. Designed by Andy Rutledge, Currents, is a responsive, minimal yet attractive premium theme from WooThemes. Currents is perfect for news driven sites. The phrase, “less is more” couldn’t be more true. This clean and minimal design maximises your reader’s focus on the content. Having said that, the theme is packed with many customization options — a wide featured post slider, custom news areas, six alternative color styles, and more. Together, all of these features help…

  • Import from Tumblr in 3 Easy Steps

    Peter Westwood
    2 Feb 2012 | 6:06 am
    We’ve recently noticed that a fair number of you have been bringing your tumblelogs over from Tumblr to WordPress.com using one of the variety of Tumblr to WXR conversion tools which exist on the web. We thought you would appreciate an easier way to import your content, so we bring you 3 easy steps to import your content. Authenticate with Tumblr To bring your tumblelog’s content to WordPress.com, head to Tools → Import in your WordPress.com dashboard and look for the Tumblr importer. If you don’t already have an account here on WordPress.com then head over and sign up…

  • Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension

    Christopher Finke
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pm
    Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser: Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications: Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com The Chrome extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button whenever you’re browsing a site that has an RSS feed. Clicking the Follow button…

  • Your Stats Have a New Home

    Andy Skelton
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am
    Are you addicted to checking your site stats? You are not alone. The stats dashboard has always been one of the most popular admin screens. It’s gratifying to know that people are visiting your place online. With the WordPress.com front page evolving into a one-stop shop for posting, exploring, following and reading blogs, it seemed natural to put your blog stats there, too.  Stats are becoming more and more about interacting with your readers and other bloggers. You’ll still see your summary stats and chart on your main dashboard, and the full stats page in your dashboard will…
 

  • If you want productivity, you need specificity

    Bob Walsh
    2 Feb 2012 | 6:44 pm
    Want to know the single biggest problem with every single GTD system in existence? They don’t enforce specificity when defining a task. Tasks, (unlike checklists which can be semantically reduced to a single word  - “milk”), require, demand, beg for as much specificity as you can muster. What catches most people, most of the time, is that our To Do lists are a mix of things we’ve done countless times before and already know how to do because we’ve internalized their details, and things we’ve never done before. clean house. take out garbage cans. add Twilio…

  • No-excuse Workflow Reminders

    Bob Walsh
    1 Feb 2012 | 10:21 am
    Two of my favorite tools for managing my startup are Evernote and Followupthen.com. You’ve heard of Evernote – the in-the-cloud information storage for practically every kind of non-databased information in your life. Followupthen.com is a nifty service that will send you, or someone, or both of you reminder emails, free. Since you can now share an Evernote note via email, and you can send that email to future self via Followupthen, you have a powerful tool for making sure you periodically tackle tasks in your startup. For example, here’s my monthly WordPress workflow…

  • AskBob: Where do I find developer cofounder?

    Bob Walsh
    30 Jan 2012 | 7:51 pm
    (Got a startup question? Ask it at AskBob and I’ll take a stab at it. And if it’s a question that other startup founders are asking, look for it as a post here.) Gary Ferguson is building a Ruby on Rails xRM solution (stakeforce.com) for organizations who need to track deals but don’t have a funnel/pipeline mentality, like nonprofits. His top startup problem? Finding development resources, and whether he should go public with the details of his idea or hold them close until at least the beta is done and out? Ideas, Cofounders and Belief Gary, I’m assuming bottom line…

  • Why branding a startup begins with a question, and not the one you’d expect.

    Bob Walsh
    24 Jan 2012 | 4:56 pm
    Andrea Shillington By Andrea Shillington Founder & Owner  Brands for the people The first question every leader should start with is this: why does your business exists other than to make money? It may come as a surprise to you that the first questions in a branding process is not about what the product or service is, or even how it’s delivered differently. Those questions will come, but the one that matters most to customers – and thus should to leaders as well – is why. It’s a matter of creating a partnership with your customers, one in which you both contribute to…

  • Seven Secrets of Startup Success

    Bob Walsh
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am
    Why Startups Fail: And How Yours can Succeed By David Feinleib VC, Entrepreneur, and Author of Why Startups Fail: And How Yours Can Succeed Startups fail for many different reasons. Turn failure into success by avoiding some of the most common causes of startup failure: Failing to drive demand Building a product people don’t want A lack of passion Running out of money Scaling too fast Small markets Failing to focus Drive Demand! As I wrote in Seven Ways To Market Your Startup, getting the word out about your product is key. All too often, entrepreneurs focus on what they’re going to build…

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  • Econovation, Faktor’s Innovation Manifesto

    GREGG FRALEY
    29 Jan 2012 | 3:04 pm
    I’ve been reading Steve Faktor’s Econovation, The Red, White, and Bllue Pill for Arousing Innovation. It’s been out since November, but I’ve avoided it because Steve’s an economist and I have bad memories of nursing hangovers in my 8:00 am Economics class at University of Cincinnati. I wish I had picked it up sooner because [...]

  • Why Creativity? Why Breathe?

    GREGG FRALEY
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:28 am
    I was invited by Tanner Christensen, author of the blog Creative Something to contribute a short piece to a free e-book on creativity. The assignment was to write a short response to the question “Why Creativity?” This is the first piece in ages that I wrote long hand first; maybe I should try that technique [...]

  • It Takes Two in the Innovation Tango

    GREGG FRALEY
    21 Jan 2012 | 8:45 am
    Thank God for Susan Robertson. Susan is a friend and colleague, and a principal at the innovation firm Ideas To Go. I’m happy Susan took the time to respond to yet another article in a respected publication that downplays the value of collaboration in idea generation. I’ve written several pieces in this blogspace defending the [...]

  • Moneyball is Innovationball

    GREGG FRALEY
    19 Jan 2012 | 3:17 pm
    As in-flight entertainment luck would have it, I’ve now seen the film Moneyball twice within a week. On the surface Moneyball is a true-story film about baseball — but it’s really an innovation story. I enjoyed the film but nothing about it struck me as profoundly good in terms of story, or character development. I [...]