Do You Think Like a Blogger?

Blog Writing, Blogging

With the warmer weather hitting the Northern Hemisphere, our thoughts may be turning to playtime rather than blogging.  So, how do you keep that blog stoked? Blogging can sometimes be as easy as sitting down at the keyboard and start typing and a post appears, but sometimes it’s not so easy. It’s a matter of … Read More

Are Corporate Vlogs the Future of PR?

Blogging Strategies

Today, Jason Calcanis mused that Corporate Vlogs are the future of PR .. Why? He cites his experience with adding Mahalo Daily videos. Since they started, the videos have gotten four million views. Of those four million, say two million people, have come in contact with the Mahalo brand. And don’t discount the archival value … Read More

Google Optimizer Goes Mainstream

Blogging, WordPress Plugins

GrokDotCom reports that Google Optimizer has shed its beta status: Google Website Optimizer can now be accessed by anyone with a basic Google account. Even if you only have so much as a Gmail account, you can start testing your website — for free — regardless of whether you’re running a paid search campaign. (No … Read More

ContentRobot.com is on WordPress 2.5

Blog Development, WordPress

PSST! Did you know that up until recently that ContentRobot’s company website had been running atop of *gasp* Drupal? Yes “the WordPress experts” finally converted to this superior platform when we launched our “naked theme” site last month. While we were hoping to be farther along and show off parts of our new look, we … Read More

Client Site Hacks and Other Musings

Blog Development

Seth Godin wrote a post today about “managing urgencies.” In ContentRobot’s world, if a client site goes down, it’s our urgent responsibility to stop whatever we are doing to get their site fixed and back online. Yesterday, a highly trafficked, highly customized blog-powered website, was hacked. We tracked it down to a malicious script that … Read More

Designing and Developing a WordPress Theme

Blog Design

What you are currently seeing on our site is ContentRobot’s “starter” WordPress theme. Dubbed “New3Column2pt0,” this simple shell contains very minimal styling and acts mainly to display the most basic 3 column functionality with an added Web 2.0 footer feature area. We have a collection of various “starter” themes with either one, two or three … Read More

Skiing Does Refresh the Blogger’s Soul

Blogging

Our last post described a very hairy week for ContentRobot. We had hoped that the weekend and a day of skiing would allow us to put it to rest and refresh. It worked! We were able to hit the slopes and remember that ContentRobot had successfully worked through our issues. Our

The Bad Week Week

Blogging

Have you ever had one of those days? You know the ones, you wake up with a little spring in your step only to be squashed like a bug? We don’t know if it’s due to the recent change to daylight saving time or what. While we were excited about those longer days, we forgot … Read More