It’s funny how we perceive ourselves sometimes and how it can be quite different from how your family does and the differences is quite drastic!

Case to the point….

Over last 4 weeks or so I have worked on getting my current house ready for sale. Contractors going in and out and checks that I sign following alone brought my wife into following line of thinking - we can “save some money” by doing small things such as painting, etc ourselves.

Or Can We?

While it might not be interesting to most – I think information shared in following posts or articles can be not only entertaining but also extremely educational. My weekly round up:

• Technorati’s State Of Blogosphere 2009 is one of the most detailed reports on what is moving bloggers and statistical data available for free.
• Stephen Pierce unleashed informational bomb sharing some superb strategies to get highly targeted buyers, not just visitors to your site.
• How to use WordPress Conditional Statements is more of personal geeky interest on how theme can be customized and provide more targeted experience to reader.
• Twitter Lists Are Live is an introduction on how to make this tool more useful to you! Great new feature I already started implementing on my own account.

There are more but I don’t want to overload you

I don’t get too excited over technology too easy but sometimes, when something comes out so revolutionary, as Google Wave – I just got to have it!

So here I was reading blog post by Jack Humphrey when I decided to watch the video included:

All I can say right now – MUST HAVE.

WANTED: Google Wave Invite!

Bounty: Lifetime Membership To Expert WordPress

Contact me if you can send me invite using form on blog please!

UPDATE: I got my invite already! Thank you Rangoo!

With so many conversations these days targeting importance of doing social marketing to promote your blog on sites like Twitter, Facebook,  FriendFeed I feel I have to talk about…

Importance Of Planning For Social Networks Failure

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In fact I think I should say INEVITABLE failure! And no, it doesn’t necessary mean that the site will go down but rather a more simple variation of failure – it will fail to deliver the results you are used to seeing right now and if you don’t variate your promotional efforts – it will drug down your blog with it!

Biggest Firesale is going to be launched on November 18 and organized by my good friend Vince Tan it features over 100 very well known names in Internet marketing. While not participating was an option – it was a bad one in my opinion and I have decided to go all out and contribute a product that should help me stand out from the crowd – God knows it will be hard!

I’m contributing Web 2.0 Wealth product to the customers Of Biggest Firesale! That’s right – $97 of real world value will be sold for pennies alone with contribution from other guys!

You can easily make a community site with WordPress if you have a specific need or to be more precise – you can create a social network platform. There are a few things you need to be aware off if evaluating this option. And not only administrative hurdles associated with maintaining a Community Site but rather technical aspects!

In this post I want to share couple tips that can help you evaluate your options and decide if you still want to build your social network (community site) or not…