Friday, January 22, 2010

Two Rounds of Applause

This week I experienced two unexpected acts of kindness from fellow bloggers, and I wanted to provide them both with a special thank-you and round of applause.

First, I received an Alert from Ben of CMF Ads, indicating that I needed to provide a feed URL for my blogs. Since I use blogger and FeedBurner, Ben instructed me to Convert my Feed to RSS 2.0 format in order for him to read our content. I wrote back and indicated that Google recommends that we publish our feeds with Smart Feed, which will automatically send our our content in whatever format. Within a day of my reply, Ben wrote back and stated that he found a way to force the feed into RSS, thus enabling CMF to import most FeedBurner feeds. I didn't expect this speedy resolution and was impressed that Ben found a solution that is beneficial to all blogger and FeedBurner users. A round of applause to Ben!

Second, I received an Entrecard message from John of English Wilderness: Nature Photography indicating that the Entrecard chicklet that displays popularity / ad price was redirecting visitors to a parked domain. This meant that nobody could visit my blogs. This problem wasn't specific to me, so John warned others and wrote the post WARNING: ENTERCARD CHICKLET WIDGET. Additionally, he contacted the site owner and had the problem resolved before I had a chance to visit my blogs.  John suggested that I remove this chicklet from my blogs since it wasn't provided by Entrecard, and I followed his advice. I wish to thanks John for helping me and all other bloggers for his proactive efforts in protecting our micro-environment. To John: A hearty round of Applause!

Thanks again,

JL..........

5 comments:

  1. Isn't it nice that there are folks out there whose kindness really does help!

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  2. Well said RNSANE. It's great to know that in this cyber-world of malicious hackers, we really do share our own community of truthful, caring neighbors who help to keep our environment clean, safe, and operational. To our friends!!!

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  3. Hey John, thanks very much for the mention - glad I could help. Your comment gave me a nudge to see if there was a better way to import feeds, so I do appreciate it. Have a great weekend!

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  4. Hi, thanks for mentioning me :-) I hope if anyone sees a problem with my blog they'd take a moment to let me know.

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