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GetSatisfaction.com is a free service that connects products and services owners with their users.

Those who have a regular/digital product or service can create an account at this site and start a community/group. They will be notified when a user joins and asks a question. Of course, one can still create a group irrespective of whether they are actually owning a product/service.

Get Satisfaction is a direct connection between people and companies that fosters problem-solving, promotes sharing, and builds up relationships. Thousands of companies use this neutral space to support customers, exchange ideas, and get feedback about their products and services. Get Satisfaction is open, transparent, and free. You’re free to ask, free to answer, and free to start a new conversation. Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate: companies, employees, customers — anyone with an opinion, an answer, or something to say.

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Google launched Google Sites as part of the Google Apps suite.

Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it’s just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish Sites to the world. The Google Sites web application is accessible from any internet connected computer.

Requirement: You need to be using Google Apps at your own domain

To start using Google Sites, visit http://sites.google.com/a/example.com where example is your own domain name.

Google Sites comes in 3 editions: Standard, Premier and Education. Standard and Education editions are free while the Premier costs $50 / user account / year. This page has the comparision table.

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This list is mainly for those who have just installed their WordPress blog. The great thing about WordPress is that it is extensible via plugins. The following is a list of plugins that covers the most common needs of any blogger.

Advanced-Admin-Menus: This plugin introduces drop down menus in the WordPress admin. Now any action is just a mouse hover and click away. For example: To go to Permalinks, you don’t have to click on Options before you can see the Permalinks menu item. Just put your mouse on the Options menu and in the dropdown menu that comes up, select Permalinks.

Akismet: This comes by default with WordPress now a days. Akismet is all you need to tackle and control the spam on your WordPress blog. Ensure that you update it to the most latest version (simply overwrite akismet.php). You need to register for a free API key that you can get from wordpress.com.

All in One SEO Pack: This plugin lets you enter your blog’s homepage title, description and keywords. Also it adds two fields in the post/page editor in which you can type in keywords and a description. Even without any configuration, this does truly provide a Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Note that post/page tags act as keywords. Hence there is no need to enter them in the keywords field.

BackUpWordPress: Setting up periodic and automatic backups for your blog is extremely important. BackUpWordPress is a handy plugin using which you can have either your entire blog (files and database) or just the database automatically backed up to a directory in your web space. This plugin also provides an option to have these backups emailed to you (the maximum file size can be entered and only if the backup is less than this will it be mailed to you.

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