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Seattle24x7's Fresh New Look!

Celebrating more than a decade of covering the Seattle Internet landscape as the first-ever online business community in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle24x7.com has embarked on the new era of hyperlocal Internet coverage with a new Website launch. First Time Online tapped the power of the recently released WordPress 3.0 platform for the new site, adding a number of custom programmed plug-ins and widgets to bring the power of social connectivity to Seattle24x7.com readers.

Seattle24x7.com founder, Larry Sivitz sums it all up:  “Seattle24x7.com is about making connections,” said Sivitz. “Our new capabilities will reward our readers with the ability to bring Seattle24x7.com into their in-box, SmartPhone and news reader. Looking for a Seattle area Internet tech or business job? Subscribe to the Seattle24x7.com Jobs feed and be among the first to connect your resume with the job stream.”

This Is Why We Love WordPress!

This is why we love WordPress! We’re able to provide our clients with the ability to dive headfirst into 2010 with all the latest technologies and at a fraction of the cost of building a site from the ground up. You just can’t beat the price, timeline and overall support.

Full Press Release

I’ve taken the liberty of attaching the full original press release anouncing the re-launch, details and more. Read below…

Original Source: MarketWire – Sep 01, 2010 09:00 ET

Seattle’s Premier Online Business Community, Seattle24x7.com, Connects Seattle E-Biz, News, Jobs, Events and Commentary With the Puget Sound’s Only Geo-Local Company Directory

SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire – September 1, 2010) – Celebrating more than a decade of covering the Seattle Internet landscape as the first-ever online business community in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle24x7.com has embarked on the new era of hyperlocal Internet coverage with a new Website launch that combines its Seattle Internet community directory, news, commentary, calendar and Seattle Internet jobs board with updates that are available to readers 24/7 via email, RSS feeds, personal alerts, the mobile web, and geo-local maps.

Since 2000, Seattle24x7 has listed hundreds of Seattle area e-business firms and associations, thousands of job openings and Puget Sound Internet industry events, dozens of interviews with online business leaders and innovators, and scores of advisory, tech and investment columns written by resident E-City experts. The site was founded by Larry Sivitz who won the SPJ Award for magazine reporting for his cover story in Seattle Magazine titled, “Who’s Building Our Dot.com Empire?” Mr. Sivitz is also the Internet editor of MARKETING, a 24-year-old business tabloid and Puget Sound staple from Coffman Publishing.

“Seattle24x7.com is about making connections,” said Sivitz. “Our new capabilities will reward our readers with the ability to bring Seattle24x7 into their in-box, SmartPhone and news reader. Looking for a Seattle area Internet tech or business job? Subscribe to the Seattle24x7 Jobs feed and be among the first to connect your resume with the job stream.” Synchronized site functions will let you add Seattle tech events to your desktop calendar and locate meeting venues and driving instructions on Google Maps.

As part of its regional coverage, Seattle24x7 includes departments spotlighting Seattle People, ShopTalk, Innovation (Pioneer Squared), Reviews (SiteCynic), Culture (E-City) and Expert Advice (Advisor-X). The Website will also be featuring breaking news from around the Northwest via a feed from Marketwire, a leading wire service serving many Northwest tech and Internet companies.

Seattle24x7 is affiliated with SearchWrite Search Marketing which specializes in geo-local search marketing and advertising helping companies integrate local search, mobile apps, and place-based marketing with overall search visibility.

Site producer, Joshua Russak, tapped the power of the recently released WordPress 3.0 platform for the new site, adding a number of custom programmed plug-ins and widgets to bring the power of social connectivity to Seattle24x7 readers. Russak serves as an on-ramp to the modern Web with his company, First Time Online, while tackling more advanced projects like Seattle24x7.

If you are a WordPress user or looking for overall web-presence advice, here are 10 articles that are guaranteed to help. Put together by my friends over at Savvy WordPress, these articles are crucial for any business looking to improve their online experience.

1. How To Make Sure You Get the Right Hosting for Your WordPress Website or Blog
2. Should You Redesign Your Website?: 5 Signs That It May Be the Right Time
3. Where Are the Visitors?: 5 Ways to use Google Analytics to Increase Your Blog Traffic
4. Tips for choosing a host for your WordPress website or blog
5. 404 Error – Page Not Found (#@!*#)
6. WordPress 3.0 Released! How My “push the update button” Adventure Turned Out
7. Buying a Domain? Beware!
8. Warning Signs of the Wanna Be WordPress Expert
9. Ending the Confusion: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
10. Protect your wp-content folder if using a CPanel hosting account

This is why I do what I do! You see? Your Fist Time Online really doesn’t have to hurt.

Amazing Client Testimonial:

We recently went to First Time Online by a recommendation of someone I highly respect. Not only was this the best move I ever made, it has been the most pleasant as well. I am used to a “rigid” webmaster who was overly demanding on how things should be sent to him. After a while, you realize that you are paying and paying and getting grief in return. My old website was becoming dated and the costs to maintain was rediculous!

Since coming to FirstTimeOnline, we were treated with total respect and I can actually TALK to Joshua who put together the site. What is even better, is that I have total control of my own site and have been making remarkable additions to this site as we grow our business.

As Joshua aptly put to me when we started “Do you run the website or does the website run you!” That answer was crystal clear to me. And thanks to FirstTimeOnline we now run our own website and at a fraction of the cost that my old webmaster would have charged for virtually everything I wanted to do.

No more hassles, no more waiting … I now have FREEDOM to do what “I” know is best and it is done immediately because I am doing it.

Oh, and one more thing, I had ZERO blogging hits with my old site. That has gone up about 30 fold with FirstTimeOnline.com

Thank you for giving me back my business freedom on the web, Josh! WowTowel highly recommends you!

Todd Moore
CEO, WowTowel

I just found this great post by Blog Design Studio. Titled “The 35 Best WordPress Design Websites“, this article is great for clients and observers interested in WordPress. Originally built as a blogging platform, “the popularity of WordPress is clear in its own way, however it becomes crystal clear when we see small businesses, professionals or even big corporations are giving preference to WordPress over other CMSes. WordPress as a CMS has evolved and is used to build beautiful and professional websites. Lets check out the following 35 websites that are powered by WordPress, BuddyPress, WordPress MU and aren’t used just as blog.” (BDS)

Here are the 35 designs with write ups done by Blog Design Studio. though I don’t particularly agree with the order, the fact that WordPress has got what it takes to take on the big boys…is clear! Here are a just a few. Check out the rest here.

WSJ Magazine

Wall Street Journal is one of the most reputed media houses and they’ve selected WordPress as CMS for their website. WSJ’s skin is pretty neat and is a wonderful example of magazine theme applied on WordPress to achieve this result. The site is heavily customized to give it the look of an online magazine.

Kodingen

Kodingen is a cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, database administration program, and collaboration platform. It includes web-based access to file systems and web-based FTP and SVN. This whole application has been developed as a BuddyPress plugin. It’s a fantastic presentation of what can be achieved by combining power of WordPress, Programming and Design.

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New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) On TechCrunch Home Page

Get A Sexy Russian Spy Video = TONS OF TRAFFIC

I didn’t believe it at first, but this headline is 100% real. One of the alleged spies arrested by FBI earlier this week (Russian Spy ring) was 28-year-old Anna Chapman, who earlier this year, sat down with our client, New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW), for a video interview to talk about her apartment rental website. That video was their ticket to a truck-load of website traffic…you simply can’t buy this kind of marketing!!

Featured Across The Web

Check out the article on TechCrunch: Exclusive: The Sexy Russian Spy’s Business Plan (And A Video Interview). It made the home page! TechCrunch gets well over 2 million monthly visitors, witch can only mean good things for our client. This story was also covered by:

• The Huffington Post – Anna Chapman: The Russian Spy’s 10 Minute Interview
• Mediaite – Sexy Russian Spy Video Interview: She Infiltrated New York Entrepreneur Week
• Wall Street Journal – From Russia With Gripes
• Fox News – Russian Beauty Had Beastly Intentions, US Prosecutors Charge
• The Week – Anna Chapman: Real Life ‘Bond Girl’

Conclusion: Get To Know Sexy Russian Spy’s

First Time Online loves to see websites in action, and this is a great example of a company that, without a website, would have missed out on all the free press provided by that simple link on the home page. If you don’t have a website, how do you expect to meet Sexy Russian Spy’s? Okay, maybe that was a stretch, but the fact is simple: Get a website and take advantage of all the potential business that could result from random (or related) press.

Oh…and Happy 4th of July Weekend!

Do You Remember Your First Time Online? from Joshua Red Russak on Vimeo.

Taken at Online Marketing Summit (OMS) Seattle, we at First Time Online proposed a very simple question: Do you remember your first time online?

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I’m excited to say…”Hey, I’m at Online Marketing Summit Seattle“, and so far it is amazing. Aaron Kahlow, (CEO, Online Marketing Connect) has just completed his Keynote speech and I’m feeling inspired. I’ve decided to note down some of the key quotes, tips and tricks and share it with the world.

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LIVE! as of June 8th, 2010: Affordable Kosher - Delivery Savings, Quality & Convenience

One of my recent launches, and most unique project to date! AffordableKosher.com served as a formidable challenge and First Time Online delivered!

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LIVE! as of June 1st, 2010: SorrelAhlfeld.com - Writer, Director & Storyteller

I’m proud to say SorrelAhlfeld.com has officially gone LIVE! Here’s the story of how they came to be one of my most  unique clients…

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Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

This video does a great job spelling out Web 3.0. It may be a bit pretentious, but for the average internet user, it explains where we are today and where we’ll be tomorrow. Enjoy!

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