Moving on from the last time I wrote about the wizardry of the Add/Edit feature of Firepow 2.0, it will be helpful to discuss the last few assets of this segment.

The first tool I want to tell you about will really interest dedicated bloggers. It the simple and rapid interrogation of Google Blog Search in relation to posts that may be relevant to your site.

Like the facilities previously discussed that enabled the downloading of relevant images and videos, this tool requires information for three fields: keyword/s; number of posts (5-100 to choose from) and lastly, post length (30-500 characters).

These posts are proving invaluable for the generation of concepts for articles and for the provision of snippets of news that can be used for additions to posts.

Add/Edit/Content also provides the enabling facility for generating and editing additional pages for your blog.

The categories too, for your blog’s posts can also be generated and deleted in this area of the program.

There’s the matter of configuring your blog too (and editing it) that I mustn’t over look. This facility has its own dedicated page which is not strictly part of the ’Add/Edit’ facility but is so closely associated with it that I can deal with it here.

This page has three tabs:

1. Edit Settings, which accesses blog title, time zone, Admin email, description, and keywords

2. Edit Passwords gives access to WordPress Admin usernames, various passwords and other data, MySQL and FTP

3. Update Plugins facilitates the updating of all plugins, the need for which is automatically determined and notified to the user by the program.

 So there it is…the magical environment of Firepow’s ”Add/Edit Content”.

Make sure you go here to discover more about Andrew Hansen’s Firepow2.0, and thanks for reading. 303

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 Those tasks have been well and truly catered for by the software’s awesome facility ‘Manage Websites’. It will significantly reduce the time you spend on blogging.

 ‘Manage Websites’ lays out everything you need to do on you blog on one page, just like a control panel. Every blog you have is on that page and each blog has a line containing its relevant linking icons, tools and data. This is what comprises each line:

  The blog’s name, on which you can click through to the blog’s site.

• A listing of the number of posts that have been made together with the date of the last inserted post.
• A reminder of the latest version of WordPress that relates to the blog, as well as a means of upgrading to the current version of WordPress with one click of your mouse. It even allows you to select all your blogs and upgrade to the latest version with two clicks.
• The WordPress log-in details can also be displayed and one click of the mouse takes you to the site’s WordPress Dashboard.
• The blogger can also quickly access the main configuration edit feature, the article post and edit facility and a very cool tool that enables the creation of a back-up zip file.
• Still other icons take you to the superb Content Blitz as well as RSS content
• RSS submission, Yahoo answers, the Blog Network and social bookmarks can all be enables with a click of an icon.

 ‘Manage Websites’, is a state-of-the-art feature of Firepow 2.0 that takes blogging into a whole new dimension. It is simply brilliant.

 This article gives an in-depth virtual tour of the “Manage Website’ feature of Firepow 2.0. It explains in detail the ubiquitous or overall control afforded to the blogger by this superb tool

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We all know how important it is in any business enterprise to keep our customers satisfied. How many times have we heard the old saw: If it wasn’t for customers there would be no business? Yet, as a management consultant, I’m continually coming across people who just don’t seem to ‘get’ that if it weren’t for the customer, they wouldn’t have a job.

And now, in these difficult economic times the contemporary customer is even more demanding of quality service; so much so that business leaders should be thinking of delighting customers—not merely satisfying them.

In the cyber world, where body language is not an option, if we are to show that we have a genuine desire to provide customer-delighting service, we have only the written word to do so.

It has to be said that the Firepow Ver. 1 management didn’t ‘top the pops’ in this arena. In my experience since being a member of Firepow, I’ve seen many forum posts unanswered or answered inadequately. Similarly with the Support desk, I’ve experienced delays of days in receiving answers to questions, which to me, were absolutely critical to my work.

But to be fair, there has been a continual improvement in this area and my instinct is that the administration team has really picked up on this aspect of management. So I’m reasonably confident that this negative aspect of the old Firepow will soon be a thing of the past in the new program.

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