Welcome to WordPress
“IT Addict” has become “Tech IT Easy”, but I´m still writing it. I hope you´ll enjoy the new user interface and additional features. Please feel free, as usual, to provide some feedback in the comments section.
Here is a copy of the last post I left on Blogger:
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Since I started blogging, exactly two months ago, I have been advocating that the very best enterprises needed to focus on serving their customers everyday better – one of my favourite topics being that Information Systems & Technology could empower these companies´ processes towards the necessary “operational excellence” achievement. In other words, I´m a strong believer that tomorrow´s leading companies in all industries will be the ones which will have proven a certain mastery in creating and servicing a competitive advantage thanks to IT-driven projects.
There is a word for all this mess, “e-Business“: use the best technologies, and make these used and understood by your ecosystem (suppliers, employees, etc.) to serve you customer best.
I felt that I had no right writing about something I actually wasn´t applying nor planning to implement. This blog is an enterprise in its own: it requires dedication, time, patience, and the drive to write, or at least try and do my best to write interesting “IT Addict” stuff. Furthermore, I have a fast-growing portfolio of very bright customers: you! Through gathering feedbacks, I realized you were overall pretty satisfied with the content & design, but that you wanted me to switch, for reasons I still don´t understand well, from Blogger – a tool you consider being “blogging for dummies”, to a more “professional” platform like TypePad or WordPress. I´ve chosen the latter.
My goal being to serve better my community, of which you belong to as long as you read me and leave comments, I hope I found a good way to illustrate how a technology upgrade (from the Blogger platform to the WordPress software) may enhance customer satisfaction.
Now that the message has come accross, here are a few housekeeping remarks:
- Do not leave comments on http://itaddict.blogspot.com anymore, go to http://www.techiteasy.org instead (update your bookmarks); you will anyways be able to find my blog on http://www.jeremyfain.net.
- I made a slight blog title change, from “IT Addict, high-tech made easy” to “Tech IT Easy”, under the name of a shop bearing such a name I saw in Rome;
- Update my RSS feed on your RSS reader from itaddict.blogspot.com/rss.xml to http://www.techiteasy.org/feed/ for posts and http://www.techiteasy.org/comments/feed/ for comments;
- I´m in middle of the migration process (making sure all the comments are there, pictures right-sized, no broken links, browsing features, etc.) and I should be done by the August 30th 2006. Consequently, I should be most grateful if you do excuse any inconvenience likely to happen until then.
- I´d like to thank: Blogger for providing me with a very simple tool that helped me start blogging; WordPress for making its superb software platform available to all for free (I added many interesting new features such as the last comments published); and you for your time and faithfullness in my writings & thoughts. I hope this is only the beginning of our collaborative sharings on the utmostly interesting topic of Information Technology.
See you right now on Tech IT Easy.
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good luck for the migration
michel
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Thank you v. much Michel. I´ve just added you to my blogroll by the way.
Truly yours,
Jeremy
Congratulations for the changes! You’ve made a good choice. I knoy you have still a lot of work but here my first comments:
- change the colors, this grey is not so pretty
- forget your feed from wordpress, I suggest you to create one in Feedburner. There are perfect!
- use Google analytics for your statistics. There are now open for evrybody.
That’s it for now.
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Thanks for your feedback & time Cedric. Here´s what I´m planning to retain:
- about the grey, I actually like it a lot. I think it´s very professional. But I´ll wait for more feedback from readers, and if your intuition proves to be generally agreed on, then I´ll change. Let the People decide.
- Feedburner: good idea! as soon as I have time to do so.
- Google Analytics: WordPress + 103bees.com is already a useful solution, but I agree that Google Analytics would provide me with more traffic details. Since I do not advertise on this blog, and do not plan to do so, gathering a lot of data is little relevant. I´ll however implement your idea in the forthcoming weeks.
I just added your blog to my roll, I enjoy the analyses you draw from your websurfing a lot.
Jeremy
Je te le redis Jérémy, ton blog est vraiment top !
Carry on !
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Merci beaucoup Michel.
Jeremy
I forget it: very very nice title!
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Many thanks Cedric. I wouldn´t actually be smart enough to come up with such a brillant motto: I stole it from a consumer electronics shop I saw in Rome.
Jeremy
I forget it: very nice title that you found !
Awesome! Good luck with wordpress and keep us updated on your positive and negative impressions.
Months ago, I read Dvorak’s review of Wordpress (http://www.dvorak.org/blog/html/wpreview1.html – btw. how does adding links work?
continued from last post)…and how to install it (and other goodies). Hope it helps.
Take care, Vincent
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It helps, thanks Vince.
Jeremy
you are also on my blogroll
michel
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I sincerely appreciate that Michel.
Let´s keep in touch,
Jeremy
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