04.27.07
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
WCC is pleased to announce the pre-release version of Slingshot, one of our blogs with an attitude. Slingshot’s purpose is to be a little more contentious, hopefully in a humorous fashion, against those that harm consumers and smaller businesses. (Need I say that technology-related businesses are our emphasis?)
There are some things we are still working on with it, as you’ll see immediately. Recently, we have slung rocks at Google, Microsoft, and the Supreme Court. If you check around 11PM Pacific, we have another one launching.
Slingshot uses Pivot, and is the first of our Pivot-powered blogs to come online. Improvements are coming there, as on the rest of our newly rebranded WCC COMMUNITIES site.
We were attempting to build WCC Communities using Joomla!, but found that there was too much emphasis on “boxes” of content. This new CMS seems to be much more focused around generating and creating the content. We have not yet made the move to integrated identities for WCC Communities, either. Each application (currently four different blogging systems, the community site, and a forums site) has its own membership listings. Partly, this is a result of using an outside hosting service and pre-built applications. Over time, we may attempt to merge these into one unified whole, where membership entitles commenting and participation privileges across the site.
As always, if you are in our area and your small business needs IT-related assistance, contact us: sales [at] webconnectconsulting [dot] com.
