Archive for April, 2008

bizSugar now provides forum feeds from EvanCarmichael.com

Published by JohnH on April 28, 2008 in bizSugar Website.

You may have noticed that at the bottom of each of bizSugar’s story pages, we now have a “Related Forum Posts” area. Based on keywords from each article, those links will take you to related forum posts from EvanCarmichael.com.

Evan Carmichael has built a fantastic site for entrepreneurs. In addition to some powerful business information from well-known experts like David Allen, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael Gerber, Jeffrey Gitomer, Seth Godin and John Jantsch, he also has over 100 interviews from famous entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Jenny Craig, Mark Cuban and Hugh Hefner. And that just barely touches all of the features and tools on this site.

Evan’s site also has an extensive forum section with a large following. That’s where we come in. Evan and I are hoping to introduce some of his community to ours and vice versa. By doing so, we hope to increase the opportunities for knowledge and networking for both groups.

So go check out his site. I think you’ll like what you find.

bizSugar voting button plugin available for WordPress

Published by JohnH on April 7, 2008 in bizSugar Website.

For those of you who use WordPress for your blog (and many of you do), I’m happy to announce that we now have a bizSugar social voting button plugin created especially for WordPress.

To download it, locate the “bizSugar vote plugin” on our bizSugar tools page. As of this post, the plugin has not been tested with the new WordPress 2.5, but should work fine with other WordPress 2.x versions.

This is a nice little plugin that allows you to either automatically add a bizSugar vote button to all of your posts or manually add a button to only certain posts. With a little tweaking, you can fine tune the button’s position or modify which style of button you want to use. I tried to make the instructions as simple and thorough as possible, but if you have any questions, please let me know.

A big thanks to Michelle MacPhearson, as this plugin was adapted from her SphinnIt button.

We’ll be offering more social button options in the future, so stay tuned!