It has been a long time coming, and it’s still not done yet, but Deborah Lewis of Toronto City Events has a handsome new WordPress blog at DebLewis.ca It’s pink of course, and has some bells and whistles. Darryl Cheung of Deezilla.com skinned the Brian Gardiner Revolution Lifestyle template that was downloaded by Smojoe over a year ago. I paid sixty bucks for the files, and made QueenWestGirl.com (which I sold earlier this spring), but those same files are free now, open source available here. Anyone visiting DebLewis.ca will see Smojoe’s fingerprints in the content and fossilized in the sidebar. The Lenzr blog widget runs in the bottom corner, three links in the Blogroll, and my own pretty face graces two Featured Content windows. The layout and design of DebLewis.ca was selected because of those dynamic featured content windows, those big sliding pictures on the homepage are very compelling. But… Read more »
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There are three photo contests on Lenzr this summer, with three different prizes. Its now the middle of July and Lenzr.com is off to a great start. All three of contests are up and running and offer great prizes. The whole competition will end midnight 31 August 2009, but for me and everyone watching the spectacle, the real rewards come when Google updates the PageRank value Lenzr.com and then the client websites. So far in the very first Lenzr contest period, the debut summer competition, the best prize for photographers to win is without question the reward that has been posted in Summer in Toronto. Here the lucky winner gets their choice of smart phone* and that prize is compelling because people want to know what phone will the winner chose? Which phone would you choose? Summer in Toronto – This web challenge is the place to show us what… Read more »
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I had a forty minute phone conversation with Raymi the Minx last week, one day before she flew to Vancouver to blog about her friends in the 2009 Juno Awards. This girl is cool and competitive, and because she’s been blogging for almost ten years she knows a lot of people, and has attracted many followers. You can read Raymi’s profile on Canada Blog Friends here. Raymi entertains over 4000 readers a day. Raymi’s at the top of the game here in Toronto, but even she struggles to make her writing hobby pay the bills. She had me laughing as she related stories about marketing executives emailing her strange incentives and worthless products as bribes while basically asking for free publicity. We talked about how advertising agencies buy blog media, and the ethical reasons behind their reluctance to pay cash. It’s a stigma that blogs are personal, free and untrustworthy… Read more »