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The 1001 Faces of Semiomantics XO

Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:31:43 +0000

New Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress

The above Screenshots represent just some of the pages, features and looks the 2012 Edition of the high performance XO Theme for WordPress has up its sleeves. The above site is the fruit of the 2 Days Ycademy Online Seminar for Semiomantics Developers and designers.

XO Theme Features

The 2012 Edition of XO is focused on even more flexibility in as much as editing, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility are concerned.

The Site displays perfectly on Mobile devices, showing responsiveness also of the plugged in scripts chosen of which some have been adapted to satisfy the high standards of Semiomantics Publishing Scripts for Excellence.

The site elaborated at the Ycademy Online Seminar this past week-end features some smashing features, such as:

Background Slideshow, customizable for each page, post or archive
Built in Directory
Media Library for YouTube and Vimeo
Pro-sliders which can be deployed anywhere on the site
In addition to the responsive design, a separate light Mobile Version is available
Bold and Efficient Navigation
Built in Custom Fonts
Social Network connectivity and publishing
and much more.

XO for Developers

The XO script is well commented and offers designers a clean and straight forward environment for custom developments. XO uses best practices for WordPress development and makes the best use of the possibilities offered by the WP back-bone, assuring smooth integration and optimized conflict handling.

XO for Designers

XO is a great playground for designers. The DIY version allows anyone to adapt layout and colors to taste right from the back-office; there is no need to have any knowledge about coding or designing. The theme behaves like a Chameleon and adapts to specific needs with just a few clicks of the mouse: pre-configured layout elements transform your XO quickly into a Magazine, Newspaper, personal Author Blog, a Media Hub, a Shop, a Marketing Machine, a Social Media Publisher, a Product Promoter or a Fan Site or most anything your imagination dictates.

For the professional designer, XO offers a well commented environment. Custom code can be added right from the dashboard or, as I prefer using a child theme. XO is tuned for HTML5 and CSS3 use, making it a modern and inspiring framework for exceptional design effects.

XO out of the Box

Out of the box, the XO Theme for WordPress provides a stable and reliable, robust and optimized solution for common use. It provides built in features such a slider with multiple transitions and a one click selector for easy use.

Layouts can be easily adapted to needs and purpose of the site. In fact, most custom designers rely on the theme engine to format efficiently layouts.

Custom XO

The site featured in the above gallery uses a few pro plug-ins to add functionality in function of customer requirements. The integration of such add on scripts is a relatively simple process for designers and developers.

Customization of the XO Theme

XO has been developed for high performance, productivity, excellence in publishing and flexibility. For the professional users, the XO Theme constitues a solid base with a huge potential for customization and creative artistic expression.

Semiomantics XO 2012 Release

The release of XO Version 3.3.x is planned for the first week of February. The present Release Candidate has been thoroughly tested. A few minor issues will be taken care off before XO will be available to the public.

Upgrading existing XO installations

If your site is running on Semiomantics XO suing basic customization, the theme can just be overwritten. (Save your custom CSS beforehand.)

If you are using a custom version with custom developments or a child theme, some of your customization will need to be adapted to the enhancements of XO 2012. This concerns namely custom headers and footers as well as custom functions.

Support for developers and designers is available as usual at our Ycademy Online Calls and Seminars or through Semiomantics Pro Support.

Facebook Strategy with WordPress

Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:51:29 +0000

10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress

10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress
Seminar Schedule

Implementing your Facebook Strategy will be at the center of the November Ycademy Seminar. This hands-on Seminar and Workshop will stretch over two days and build with participants an eye-ball-twisting Facebook presence. See the seminar schedule at the bottom of the post.

The Seminar is designed for WordPress Developers and WP users who are looking for high productivity and customized publishing and marketing solutions.

11 Efficient Facebook Strategies

This topic deals with efficient strategies which will efficiently improve your Facebook presence.

Visit the Semiomantics Facebook Page

7 Ways to jeopardize your Facebook success for sure

Surfing through Facebook we notice some common errors well intended people commit when building their Facebook presence. We will discuss these issues and show you how to eliminate them from your personal or business Facebook.

4 Important Facebook features to focus on

While content is king, there are different ways of making it accessible to visitors. We will discuss the recent changes Facebook has implemented and show you where the focus should be in order to improve your visibility, traffic and business or network expansion on Facebook.

Facebook Privacy and Accessibility settings

Function of your strategy we will define and optimize privacy settings in order to grant potentially interested visitors access to relevant information. Privacy, Accessibility and List-building as well as Targeted Communication are the essentials of this key session.

Workshop: Information and Profile

For people looking for you, your business, services or products, your Profile and Info page are of the utmost importance, the more that your info is visible from outside Facebook and therefore Google efficient. We will set up with participants an efficient Info Page.

Friends, Fans and Subscriptions

We will discuss the recent changes implemented by Facebook and how they impact on our strategies. Friends, Fans and Subscription features impact on the way we expand our network and influence on Facebook.

Facebook Pages

Overview of the Facebook Page feature. Integration techniques, Apps, Content, Canvas and Pages.

Workshop: Build a simple Facebook page

The focus is on the technical set-up of a Facebook Page. As content we will use a graphic, picture of video.

Creative and useful Facebook Page Content

What is it you actually wish to display on your Facebook page? In fact there is no limit and it depends entirely on your strategy.

Integrating WordPress with Facebook

This is the center piece of the seminar. Creating Facebook Page right from your WordPress site is now possible. We will set up a reveal page and different Facebook pages depending on participants needs. In fact we show you how to create a whole website in Facebook, straight from your WordPress.

While this works with most any WordPress 3.1 enabled Theme, we will demonstrate the integration with Semiomantics XO.

In fact we will work with a professional plugin modified for Semiomantics XO.

Workshop: Build your Facebook with WordPress

The Seminar will guide you to master the following and more:

Create Unlimited Facebook Fan Pages with WordPress
Increase Likes by 150% with Reveal “Like” Tab Gateways
Unlimited Customization Options When Designing Your Fan Pages
Create Unlimited Custom Pages with the WordPress Page Editor
Create Custom Menus and Navigation with Just a Few Clicks
Comments, Like, Send and Over 50+ Custom Shortcodes for Enhanced Customization
Facebook Open Graph Integration for Enhanced Facebook Integration and Google SEO
Auto Post to Facebook From Your WordPress Blog
Use Your Facebook Albums and Photos on Your Blog and Fan Pages
Add Google Maps to Your Facebook Fan Pages
Create Squeeze and Sales Pages with Just a Few Clicks on Facebook

Workshop: Add Social Network features to your WordPress

Add Facebook related widgets to your front and/or content pages. Google+ and Twitter buttons. Pull in Facebook Albums, Events, like Buttons and more. Use Facebook Connect to log in to or to register with your blog.

Selective Access to your FB Content

Create content which is only accessible after visitors clicked the “Like” button. A smashing filter which allows you to manage accessibility right from your XO.

Seminar Schedule

Time

Saturday and Sunday November 26/27, 2011.

We start at 1 pm London Time and end at 9 pm London time both days.

Materials

You need a WordPress blog preferably with FTP access.

Scripts and all other materials are provided.

We will install the necessary scripts for you previous to the Seminar; please get your Tickets early. If we are not yet in possession of the FTP access to your site, please send it by email to Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

Tickets and Price

The Price for Participating, Materials and access to recordings is $85.

Click to get your Ticket

Discount as usual for Ycademy Pros. Please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com for the code or any other question you may have pertaining to the Seminar.

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Yorgo Nestoridis — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:03:24 +0000

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Klout or Harvard

Yorgo Nestoridis — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:58:51 +0000

Harvard or Klout?

Recently I came across a video from the Wall Street Journal showing the merits of Klout and discussing some of the perspectives. This leads me to drive the vision further and to ask simple: how will our kids feed their families tomorrow? If the Harvard boys continue to build programs but the asset value shifts away from the program to the individuals populating it, then we may have to rethink economic models and education.

The Klout Report

Below the video which shows what Klout, Social Networking and Social Network Marketing can lead to.

Social Networks Status Quo

Up to now, smart kids built programs and got people to join. These people were building the actual asset value of the program – for free. Many such programs have been sold for billions or went public rewarding the program owners with loads of cash.

Those who actually have built the content, traffic and prestige of the program were not really involved in the benefits of such transactions (think of MySpace, Skype, and others, where subscribers were “sold” multiple times).

Social Profiles, Indexing and Klout

While in the past, programs, like newspapers were analyzed for their target public (market) in order to determine the advertizing value, social profiles are linked to individuals, brands or eventually groups of people. High social indexes in clearly defined market (tags, keywords) will shift the financial power away from programs to where it actually should be: the social profiles, representing high impact, conversion and sales.

My advice to Facebook would be: go public before the market’s attention shifts.

Yorgo Nestoridis on Facebook

Education and Family Business

As parents, we only want the best for our children and if in the past it has been generally admitted that a traditional university education is the most promising base for an economically successful life, one may start doubting that this will still be true in the near future. If tomorrow merchants sponsor social profiles and their owners, then it may be tempting to drag your kid as early as possible in front of a computer and let him collect Likes. The issue is: instead of focusing on traditional schooling, one could let the child build its social index, which, if well managed may rake in millions comparable to show or sports stars.

You could also imagine a whole family working on one and the same social profile, to expand influence. The Social Profile becomes an immaterial material asset in as much as an advertising value is attached to it.

Changing Shopping Habits and Legal Frameworks

Tomorrow, there is no more need for traditional supermarkets, expensive shops in downtown areas and well dressed staff. Shopping will be recommendation based and take place online. Costly networks of distributors will be to expensive, companies will sell directly and select a few high social profiles to recommend their goods and services.

People will look for a benefit and find the appropriate recommendations on Google and in Social Networks. Influential profiles will make money like never before. Such profiles don’t need to be wrapped up in companies limited by shares. The can exist without any particular legal framework, however you could imagine that such profiles may want to build goodwill and associate themselves with NGOs or even become a Foundation whereas then the family members would be the people running the foundation.

And what if the Consumption Driven Society evolves

This would probably be the best that can happen, however then the Social network Bubble and the material interest therein would pass. Now that would be a real revolution for the 21st century!

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Global Sports US Logo Reviewed

Yorgo Nestoridis — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:33:03 +0000

Original Article at Global Sports US Logo Reviewed.

Global Sports US Logo

For the purpose of creating an animated version of the Global Sports US logo, it was necessary to partially redesign it and to vectorize it. The next step was then to take it to Adobe Premier Pro to animate it. Listen Up Londow, who are doing video clips for Global, requested a simple rotation every 20 seconds.

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Il Volo — A breath of fresh Air

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:21:26 +0000

Original Article at Il Volo — A breath of fresh Air.

3 Italian Teenager make the Charts

A group of Italian teenagers Piero Barone (17), Ignazio Boschetto (16) and Gianluca Ginoble (16) aka Il Volo. Enjoy!

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Empire Avenue a Review in 12 Chapters

Yorgo Nestoridis — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:01:03 +0000

Original Article at Empire Avenue a Review in 12 Chapters.

Empire Avenue the Sign-up Process

Empire Avenue the Sign-up Process

This post follows our previous intro to the Empire Avenue Review in 12 Chapters. When signing up with Empire Avenue, you will be prompted to select a Group of Interest or a Market Index as well as a Ticker Name. Both can be changed later, eventually at a cost.

The EA Market Index

You have a large choice to adhere to groups of interest, but you have to restrict yourself to one only. For the sake of this exercise, I selected “Photography : Digital”. Each of these Market Indexes has its own leader board, which allows you to monitor your progress compared to other players with similar interest.

My Experience with the Empire Avenue Market Index

Playing the game, I was progressing rather rapidly on the index, moving from the status of “Employee” to CFO and President, and then … Empire Avenue changed the rules and the index; with my relative progression I could have snapped the CEO within days, but as I said, the rules changed and about a week ago when I was President, the second seat after the CEO. The indexing was completely messed up for half a day, which triggered heated discussions in some internal community forums (during the mess I was temporarily relegated and the index had completely changed). EA then did a reset and came back with something which obviously prevented my dynamic growth but gave me back my President seat and a bigger distance to the CEO :-( On other indexes it was noticed as well, that some fast movers were slowed down or relegated. Of course EA has the right to change the rules at any time, it can however be frustrating, namely for people who perform well and ultimately blow some life into the program and keep it dynamic. The feeling remains: CEO positions may be arbitrarily protected … I cannot prove it. Never mind, I can always go and change my topic of interest and storm another hierarchy till … President :-).

The Ticker Name

I kept it short and sweet, “YORGO”. It’s easier to remember, also for your shareholders and easy to spell if you chat with people on the program. Others use their brand name and yet others huge long unpronounceable strings. The choice is yours, but my recommendation would be, keep it short and meaningful.

Conclusion

The sign-up procedure is smoot and easy and the program is very responsive. Unfortunately, newbies have no clue about the implications of their choices at this stage. On the other hand, a change of Index or ticker is possible later on. I cannot get rid of the suspicion that there is some power play going on behind the scenes in as much as top positions in the index are concerned. Let’s look at the set-up at our next chapter.

Empire Avenue 101 Tips

Yorgo Nestoridis — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:23:42 +0000

Original Article at Empire Avenue 101 Tips.

Empire Avenue Tip 1

Empire Avenue Tip 1
Buying Shares in Multiple Batches on Empire Avenue
1. Pros:
2. Cons:
3. Conclusion 1
4. Recommendation
5. Conclusion 2
6. Finally

I will start here to give some tips which may prove helpful. These are recommendations which result from my own EA experience which I am documenting in my Empire Avenye Review in 12 Chapters.

Buying Shares in Multiple Batches on Empire Avenue

When joining EA almost two weeks ago, I noticed that some buyers prefer buying shares in multiple small batches and was wondering if it was worth it. Here some thoughts.

Pros:

– Multiple opportunities to leave a shout – Multiple opportunities to create conversation – High visibility on Scrollers – Create EA Actions

Cons:

– You push the price up with your purchases (namely on low price shares) and you buy the last batch more expensively than the first; on a hot share others may jump in with big batches and accellerate the price increase. – I don’t read 10 shouts associated with “prostatic buying” nor will I respond … you kill conversation because it ennoys people rather and looks like ‘spam’. – It is not really efficient in terms of EA actions if you do a good number of them anyway. You dont beat the system -). – It increases the work load without giving you and more importantly, your new share, a significant benefit. – It may distract you from your focus which should be on promoting your new share; there are more and better ways to promote your new share and the person behind.

Conclusion 1

Multiple shouts can be of an advantage, but not 10 of them in a row. A shout has reached it’s goal if it triggered a response (conversation). From a financial point of view, you want to buy the share at the lowest price; that is the first price! If you do 10 batches anyway and say you want to buy 100 shares, buy 91 with the first shot and then 9 x 1, so the higher price may apply only to the smallest part of the block. From a perception point of view: frankly, at my end I percieve these people buying that way as gready and small minded, accepting to ennoy me for the benefit of shouting 10 times at me without any interesting message. There are so many smarter ways of producing EAction which benefit both parties involved. Don’t expect me to read your 10 shouts, and when reciprocating, don’t expect that you earned the best of my good-will.

Recommendation

What I do while others buy 10 batches: 1. I buy one block only, and after the purchase leave the shout from the pop-up where available. An encourageing message or so, sometimes something more. 2. Then I head over to the profile and I look at the bio, blogs where available. I do endorsements where appropriate, shoot a twitter message from the button as well as a facebook post and I click the Like button ( if I don’t like I dont buy :-). 3. I reommend the new share for a while; it’s my interest that the share gets promoted and increases in value. 4. I add to my watch list at least for a while. Additionally you could configure a price alert, which I don’t do that as the few shares I have, I can keep in my mind. 6, If I am interested in the profile, I will have a closer look at the persons website and social activity. 7. From my actions, EA produces notifications and records on the scrollers, brilliant! When I fiund some interesting content, I may now go back and do a real shout with some smart text pertaining to the person’s website or FB page and so on … that shows my interest in what people are and do beyond the share price and it triggers real conversation and business.

Conclusion 2

The Recommended way produces less cyber-waste and builds more accountable rewards. You don’t ‘spam’ the shoutbox but you create Twitter and Facebook actions. By looking at the profile, you get to know people and can then shout smarter stuff which triggers conversation. (I have sold 2 scripts, 1 SEO and 1 website customization from such EA conversation and raked in almost $1000 just from that.) The main reward is not in the way you buy your stocks, but what you make out of the new relation.

Finally

Just never forget, in social network marketing, not only you create the action, but here at EA, YOU ARE THE EVENT! I focus on you.

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My Vouliagmeni » Yorgo

The 1001 Faces of Semiomantics XO

New Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress

XO Theme Features

XO for Developers

XO for Designers

XO out of the Box

Custom XO

Customization of the XO Theme

Semiomantics XO 2012 Release

Upgrading existing XO installations

Facebook Strategy with WordPress

10 Steps to Implement your Facebook Strategy with WordPress

Contents

11 Efficient Facebook Strategies

7 Ways to jeopardize your Facebook success for sure

4 Important Facebook features to focus on

Facebook Privacy and Accessibility settings

Workshop: Information and Profile

Friends, Fans and Subscriptions

Facebook Pages

Workshop: Build a simple Facebook page

Creative and useful Facebook Page Content

Integrating WordPress with Facebook

Workshop: Build your Facebook with WordPress

Create Unlimited Facebook Fan Pages with WordPress

Increase Likes by 150% with Reveal “Like” Tab Gateways

Unlimited Customization Options When Designing Your Fan Pages

Create Unlimited Custom Pages with the WordPress Page Editor

Create Custom Menus and Navigation with Just a Few Clicks

Comments, Like, Send and Over 50+ Custom Shortcodes for Enhanced Customization

Facebook Open Graph Integration for Enhanced Facebook Integration and Google SEO

Auto Post to Facebook From Your WordPress Blog

Use Your Facebook Albums and Photos on Your Blog and Fan Pages

Add Google Maps to Your Facebook Fan Pages

Create Squeeze and Sales Pages with Just a Few Clicks on Facebook

Workshop: Add Social Network features to your WordPress

Selective Access to your FB Content

Seminar Schedule

Time

Materials

Tickets and Price

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Status Update

Klout or Harvard

Harvard or Klout?

The Klout Report

Social Networks Status Quo

Social Profiles, Indexing and Klout

Education and Family Business

Changing Shopping Habits and Legal Frameworks

And what if the Consumption Driven Society evolves

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Global Sports US Logo Reviewed

Global Sports US Logo

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Il Volo — A breath of fresh Air

3 Italian Teenager make the Charts

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Empire Avenue a Review in 12 Chapters

Empire Avenue the Sign-up Process

Contents

The EA Market Index

My Experience with the Empire Avenue Market Index

The Ticker Name

Conclusion

Empire Avenue 101 Tips

Empire Avenue Tip 1

Contents

Buying Shares in Multiple Batches on Empire Avenue

Pros:

Cons:

Conclusion 1

Recommendation

Conclusion 2

Finally

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Leica