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Wordcamp Mid-Atlantic 2009 – Anil Dash, Mark Jaquith, Thesis and Aaron Brazell

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to visit where I went for my undergraduate degree at the University of Baltimore to attend Wordcamp Mid-Atlantic. It was put on by Aaron Brazell AKA Technosailor who is well known in the wordpress community and in on his previous lives was Director of Technology for B5 Media which was at the time the largest blog network running on Wordpress. He has some serious street cred in the Wordpress community and currently has a consulting practice working with some great firms implementing Wordpress as part of their strategy.

He kicked the morning off with a thank you to sponsors and an introduction to the event as well as integrating in some great Ignite Baltimore presentations to keep things lively and not just Wordpress lectures. Mario Armstrong gave his personal branding presentation to start and we jumped into the first keynote of the day from Anil Dash of Six Apart. Yes, I wrote that right. Read on…

Breaking News: Anil Dash announces Six Apart WordPress Plugins at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic

The audience at Word Camp Mid-Atlantic drew a deep breath as Anil Dash, one of the co-founders of Six Apart a rival blogging platform delivered the keynote address. During the keynote he made a very sensational announcement. The screen lit up with a URL http://www.sixapart.com/wordpress which is like Microsoft having a place for Apple software [...]

Network Solutions DNS Update

Update: 10.36 A.M: April 23rd 2009
Please accept our apologies for the slowness of our DNS services on April 21st 2009. We work very hard to deliver on the promise of providing the best services at all times and we realize we did not meet our service assurance to some of the internet users in this [...]

One Year and 500 Posts – The Best of the Best and the Future is Looking Bright

For all of our readers out there, we are marking a milestone of our 500th post here at Solutions Are Power and it has been an awesome 16 months of growing, learning and listening. We hope we have provided you valuable and timely information along with some humor thrown in for good measure. We plan [...]

Network Solution Teams Up on Central Registry Solutions for New Top-Level Domains

If you’re an ardent follower of corporate announcements and the often-arcane world of ICANN-accredited domain registrars (and really, who isn’t?), you’ll see a press release from Network Solutions, announcing that “Network Solutions and CentralNic Launch New Joint Venture Called Central Registry Solutions.”
Here’s the lead of the release:
“Network Solutions, LLC and CentralNic USA Ltd. announced today [...]

WebmasterRadio: Cover Story Features Network Solutions Social Media efforts

 
Network Solutions was featured on WebMasterRadio for the Social Media outreach. Jiyan Wei the host of the show works for PRWeb and blogs at http://www.newinfluencer.com/. The key message in the interview is that companies expecting to market in this arena can expect marketing results as an indirect result of conversations with customers and community in the [...]

Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #8 – The “Meetups and Promotions” Episode

Available now for your listening pleasure is Episode #8 of Solutions Out Loud, the Network Solutions podcast that covers news, business trends, tips for small businesses and anything else that is relevant to you our faithful listeners.
You can subscribe to the feed on iTunes or RSS.
In this episode we talk about the power of networking [...]

BuzzGain Launches their “Social Media Influence Platform”

A few months ago I had the opportunity to speak with co-founder Mukund Mohan about his entrepreneurship experiences, his blogging at Best Engaging Communities, and his new company, BuzzGain.
Launched this week from a private beta, BuzzGain has garnered some great press from TechCrunch, Mashable and our favorite Social Media Guru, Chris Brogan.
BuzzGain is not exactly [...]

Super Bowl Ads: Twitter and Friends

As I watched the Super Bowl end with an amazing victory for the Steelers, I noticed another amazing thing happen – whenever I am connected on the Internet I always have a browser open with my search for Network Solutions terms – friends on Twitter started tweeting to me and asked how they can transfer [...]

WebmasterRadio: Cover Story Features Network Solutions Social Media efforts

Network Solutions was featured on WebMasterRadio for the Social Media outreach. Jiyan Wei the host of the show is with at Vocus Inc. and  works in product development with PRWeb.  I have have been in the audience at several conferences where Jiyan Wei spoke and it was a honor to be on the other side [...]