How To Migrate Your Blog From Wordpress.com To Wordpress.org
Like thousands of others, I started my blog on Wordpress.com. The benefits of doing so are too many to list here. But there are a few liabilities - such as when you want to ‘monetize’ your blog or use it for purely business related purposes. Or when you’ve decided that the Wordpress.com widgets don’t give you enough functionality, and you want to be able to use the full range of plug-ins. When that time comes, you have to migrate to a server hosting Wordpress.org software. When I migrated a few months ago I found a huge set of headaches waiting for me. I had to do a bunch of things the hard way, because, frankly, I didn’t anticipate 1) the need to ever make the transition and 2) that when I did it might prove detrimental to my blog. So I’m going to show you exactly how to do it correctly, from the time you start a blog on Wordpress.org to the time you decide to migrate to your own hosted server. (Aside - that title is misleading because you’re actually migrating your blog to a SERVER running software downloaded from Wordpress.org - but I had to keep it short and searchable.) Now then:
7 Things Innovators Do That You Don’t
What prevents you from being a great innovator? Not much. Innovators by and large aren’t creative geniuses gifted with da Vinci-like talent. It’s not what they ARE - it’s what they DO. They do these seven things you most likely do not.
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Tesla Motors. Everyone has been writing and posting nothing but glowing, positive articles about the present, and future, of this maverick automotive company. So naturally I’m a little shocked to relay this information:
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As you know if you’ve tried, you can’t directly embed the sketchcasts you create at sketchcast.com in your Wordpress.com blog. Fortunately, there’s an easy workaround that also gives you better quality, more versatile sketchcasts.
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The key to making a disruptive solar energy product is to overcome the high cost of the initial installation. Popular Science has awarded its Innovation of the Year award to a company who may well do that starting next year - Nanosolar. Let’s see if they can truly be disruptive.
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7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can’t Be Done
Table of contents for 7 Levels Of Change
- The 7 Levels Of Change - Introduction (Part 1 of 9)
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 2 of 9) - Level 1: Effectiveness
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 3 of 9) - Level 2: Efficiency
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 4 of 9) - Level 3: Improving
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 5 of 9) - Level 4: Cutting
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 6 of 9) - Level 5: Copying
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 7 of 9) - Level 6: Doing Things No One Else Is Doing
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can’t Be Done
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 9 of 9) - Bringing It All Together
The eighth in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change, I introduce the seventh level of change - Different (Doing Things That Can’t Be Done).
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A few weeks ago I posted about Rick Rubin’s subscriber-based vision for the music industry. But a familiar company currently using this business model is abandoning it due to plummeting revenue.
“Forty Uses For A Brick” - A Real World Example
Back in September I posted an example of how to use creative thinking techniques to proliferate ideas. “Forty Uses For A Brick” became one of my most popular articles. I promised to give an example of how to apply these same techniques to a real-life problem. This is taken from an actual project I worked on earlier in the year, revisiting the “Brick” techniques but also illustrating how to use the perspectives of others to illuminate and redefine the problems at hand.
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There is a Buffalo Wild Wings about 15 miles down the Interstate from me now. It opened about two months ago, in a rather large mall. There is also a well-established restaurant 3 miles from my house that specializes in wings. It has a more locally appealing flavor variety, the wings taste better, and they’ve been doing extremely well for years. So naturally, people all over town are flocking to…
…Buffalo Wild Wings, even though it’s out of the way and has lower quality food. Why? How is BWW kicking ass?
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