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Ok. Today is a day for Google Analytics. For the time being I have deactivated this site wide stats plugin for MU Wordpress until I have resolved and issue with it.
In the meantime; I found a great alternative that can/should be used with the Ultimate Google Plugin. The plugin was installed on your iLocals.Info blog. [...]

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I am having a problem with this plugin. It’s great and I want to use it. But until it’s fixed use this plugin and application.
After I had problems with the Firestats plugin we could not measure site stats on iLocals.Info. Although there were alternatives I could not get what I wanted. Then I got hold of [...]

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When you want to sell anything a photo, a gallery and a slide show will make the difference. And NextGen Gallery is making the difference for people who create online newsletters, blogs and websites at iLocals.Info.
The learning curve to use NextGen effectively exists. But it's all worthwhile. Although I am no expert yet I was able [...]

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To have an online newsletter and or blog/ web site is great. And more so when you don't have to worry about the technicalities of hosting it.
But there are issues as well. If you are willing to do all the technical changes then you may find that it limit your creative juices.
And if you want [...]

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Before we start. I cannot get the developer to answer me on the slideshow.
But I have included a few flashviewers on the iLocals.info site that works with the greatest gallery plugin NextGen.
In order to use them, they may work as I did not test them, you need to activate the pluging (see link below for training) [...]

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To continue from my post on why should you have a community forum I want share with you an interesting observation from my blog traffic logs. I am using the Simple Forum plugin (that’s one of the many plugins installed for you on my Free Blog Platform).
Before I tell you how Simple Forum brings [...]

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If you are in a active community like Simon’s Town you’ll find people and groups involved with many issues concerning the community. But they are using traditional methods to discuss, escalate and resolve the issues; email, phones and paper. And when they get a solution they have no way of making it public.
Let me give [...]

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Today I had a new blogger asking me questions about the get a blog options and though why not make it easy for visitors to talk to me. Now! When they want to and when they have an issue.
Well, if you look to the top right in my side bar you’ll see Chat with Johan [...]

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Why I twitter to my blog and get twitter updates to my blog

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I noticed that many wordpress blogs use an intro text above their posts to invite you to subscribe to their RSS feed or email newsletter.
Upon investigating I noticed that the plugin is cookie enabled. Therefore you can set to show it all the time or for one or more visits. This help you to stop [...]

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