22Jul/090

New on PlanetLotus: Blogs!

Location, Location, Location.

Blogs have arrived on Planet Lotus. The blogs are based on WordPress MU (multi user) and to start things off I've added 100+ blog themes to choose from.

Start yours here: planetlotus.org/blogs/

The FAQ and rules:

  • Be Good.
  • New blogs will not show on the front of Planet Lotus. You will need to submit your blog in order to have it appear.
  • Beta? - Yes, until the wrinkles are wordpress'd out.
  • Widget support - Yes
  • Themes to choose from - 100+
  • Example blog url... planetlotus.org/blogs/yourblog/
  • Size limit - I'm not sure what it should be so the default of 10mb will stay and we'll see how that rides out. If you need more ask.

Enjoy!


15Jun/090

Planet Lotus now has a fan page on Facebook

Facebook fan pages are popping up everywhere in the Lotus community, might as well follow suit, anything to promote the fine blogging that has been going on over the years!

Let me know what you think. If you have ideas of how to enhance the page let me know, I'm always up for suggestions.

PS: A special thanks to Chris Toohey for the page suggestion.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Planet-Lotus/99056356846?ref=mf

-Yancy

4May/093

2nd Annual Lotus Charity Drive

Last year I throw out a challenge to the Lotus community to make the PMC charity event our virtual community charity drive. The Lotus community responded to the tune of $6,484.72!

Thank you to everyone that participated!

http://charity.planetlotus.org

Overall this year’s events will be almost the same as last years. For one, I will be doing two unofficial events. A marathon, completed yesterday and second, a 148 mile one day bike ride. Why two unofficial events you might be asking?... guilt. My wife Johanna was so motivate during my ride last year that she has signed up for this year. Given that we have 3 small children it would be very difficult for both of us to do it. In response I’ve signed up for those other endurance events so you’d know that I would be suffering along side her ;) . So if you would mind my wife is riding, but it’s in honor of the same boy, our oldest son Ethan.

Given the economic climate and a newer release of Notes, I have lowered the Premium Sponsorship amount. Any donation => than $88.50 (based on Notes 8.5) , can have their post on the Donor List, located at http://charity.planetlotus.org and http://planetlotus.org customized with the URL and text (up to 140 characters) of your choice.

So, if you're at all thankful for what Planet Lotus has done for your blogs readership, please consider this a way of giving back. If you've enjoyed reading what the site has to offer and how it offers it, consider this a way to give back.

Thank you in advance for your generosity and remember the economy is shrinking, but the number of lives affected by cancer is not.

UPDATE: Thank You to Kathy Brown and Roy Rumaner for staring off the 2009 campaign before it was announced!

4Jan/08Off

planetlotus.org Lotusphere Twitter details

Planet Lotus is seeking to expand its aggregation of feeds to benefit not only those on the ground at Lotusphere but those that couldn't make it.

If you are interested in having your Lotusphere (and beyond) tweets show up here send me; or post to comment below, your twitter rss feed. Make sure it's yours and does not include your friends time line (check to see that it starts with http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/).

*You must have a blog listed on this site to participate.

*Twitter at Planet Lotus is Opt In only. Simply email me your twitter account username.

View what it will look like here: http://planetlotus.org/twitter/

Learn more here: http://www.twitter.com & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Email your feed here: yancylent ]@[ lotusreport.com

UPDATE. Please email me. Due to spam im closing the comments to this post.

3Jan/081

Lotusphere 2008 and Twitter

I'm looking for the best way to promote the blogging community's twitter at Lotusphere. I initially thought the Lotusphere Twitter account would do this, and maybe that is its mission, but it looks to be a handful of twitter-ers tweeting to everyone else. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

What I propose is allowing anyone with a blog posted here to either send me, or post as a comment; their twitter url / twitter rss feed and they will be included in a Twitter View off the main page.

My vision is the 'Lotusphere Twitter' link on mobile.planetlotus.org would incorporate all twitters.