Announcements | Justin Levy

Gone Mobile

January 5, 2010 By Justin Levy 2 Comments

You can now access a mobile version of [justinrlevy.com] when you use a touch mobile device such as an iPhone or Droid. Previously this blog had utilized the Carrington theme to create a mobile version of the site. But, I just switched over to WPtouch to create a fuller experience. Carrington had many of the features that WPtouch has but I like the look, feel and design of WPtouch a little more. It displays photos, Tweetmeme and Disqus tightly as well as the basic features of the site including tabs, tags, categories, date/time, and more.

What really impressed me about WPtouch was the level of customization the theme allows from the Settings menu. In my previous experience with themes or plugins that created mobile versions, they usually were limited in their customization options, if they allowed customization at all. Of course, you could pay to have a custom mobile version created but who wants to spend money if they don’t have to.

To highlight the high level of customization that the user is allowed, I took the below screenshot of the just the icon selection menu. This menu allows you to choose the icons that will be displayed for your different tabs.

That is just one of the many customizable features that you can tweak and have fun with.

So, if you’re looking to create a mobile version of your blog/website and you’re on WordPress, head over and grab WPtouch.

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Adding More Value Around Here

December 7, 2009 By Justin Levy 14 Comments

As a way of trying to add more value for you and giving us another way to connect on a regular basis, I have decided to launch a monthly newsletter. The newsletter will focus on topics such as: social media, marketing, business, time management, productivity and other topics that are hopefully helpful to you.

The content in the newsletter will be completely different than the random thoughts that pop into my head and I blog about. It won’t be just a rehash of articles already posted here either. The newsletter is a behind-the-scenes view of strategies, tactics, stories, and people that have helped me and I hope help YOU.

I would love it if you subscribed below and as you receive the newsletter, if you would be so kind to provide feedback. The intent of this newsletter is for it to be helpful to YOU. That said, your feedback will help shape this newsletter into what you need and want it to be.

Please know that I take the relationship that we’ve built here very seriously. Therefore, I will never sell, distribute or make public your contact information.

Thank you for the time we get to spend together. You keep pushing me to think about the way we run business in new and hopefully helpful ways. You always give me so much so I hope that with this newsletter I’m able to provide you useful info.

As always, thanks for tuning in and I hope you stick around for a while.

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Missing in Action

October 10, 2009 By Justin Levy 7 Comments

Well, first of all, hello again! Yes, I’m still alive. No, I didn’t abandon you. Yes, I feel extremely bad that it has been a very long month since I’ve written here, shared fun videos, or heard your thoughts on what’s happening. I could make 1,000 excuses about why I haven’t written lately. But, the bottom line is that I’m back. I have a list full of ideas that I want to share with you, videos I’ve been collecting up, and experiences that I’ve had over the past few weeks.

As always, thank you for hanging out with me. I always strive to provide you with content that will you be helpful to you whether it be for professional growth, industry related information, product/book reviews, or just a fun video to help lighten up your day.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…

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A New Look and Feel Around Here

August 31, 2009 By Justin Levy 10 Comments

So, I was getting jealous watching Danny Brown talk about how much fun he was having playing with the newly released Headway theme. Knowing that my friends over at CoffeeHouse Ideas will be designing something new and sexy for me in the next few months, I was a little hesitant to switch things up. But, then I saw this video from Remarkablogger and I was sold.

If you can’t view the video, it is also hiding over here.

As I get a chance to play with the back-end of Headway more, I will post a complete review of my experience behind-the-scenes. But, I know that many, if not most of you, connect here through RSS or email so you may not notice when design changes are made. With this update, I have also added in a Lifestream, Photostream (from my Flickr), Google Connect and a few other nifty things. I purposely left it kinda minimalist so there is a focus on content and connecting.

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I really like the changes and was getting bored staring at the same blog day in and day out. I’m curious to know what you think. Do you like it? What’s ONE thing you want to see around here?

Want to try out Headway for yourself? Check it by hitting up the banner below (affiliate link)…

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Daddy Bloggers and Technology Collide to Form the DigiDads

August 20, 2009 By Justin Levy 2 Comments

Ok, I have to admit that as I was trying to come up with the title for this post I kept thinking of Transformers

Back on topic…today I’m really proud to announce the launch of a new project at New Marketing Labs. We’ve teamed up with Sony Electronics USA and a group of top-tiered daddy bloggers as a different form of blogger outreach. You see, Sony makes all sorts of super cool gadgets and they wanted to come up with a new way of getting the info about these products out in the wild. Sure, they could send the products to a handful of bloggers and ask that they review it. But, why not do something more fun, more creative, and experiential at the same time?

So, who better to play with all of this awesome gear? How about a group of daddy bloggers that use products like digital cameras, camcorders, and laptops to capture memorable moments with their kids all the time? Sounds perfect to me and sounded fun to Sony.

With that being said, I’d like to introduce the group of DigiDads who will be participating in this project:

C.C. Chapman
Jeffrey Sass (disclosure: Chris Brogan is the founder of Dad-O-Matic)
Brad Powell
Max Kalehoff
Michael Sheehan

Over the next few months the dads will be completing all sorts of different projects where they use this Sony gear with their families and provide unbiased reviews on what they thought of it all. You can track each of these projects on the dads’ blogs as well as on the DigiDads Community that Sony has set up. You can also follow the conversations taking place on Twitter using the hashtag #SonyDads.

What do you think about this? A fun, different way to do blogger outreach and product reviews?

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