“Starting soon, your stats page will be on the WordPress.com homepage only”

If you use the wordpress.com blogging service you may have seen this notification already “Starting soon, your stats page will be on the WordPress.com homepage only“, but have you tried the new stats page? I did and it is great. More information, easy to navigate and it looks fantastic. Of course you can still see the “views all-time”, the “views today” and the “views on the busiest day” as well as switching the statistic from “Days” to “Weeks” or to “Months”, but now you can also see for example “Views by Country”, which you can find below the overall statistic.

Before I go into more detail what kind of information you can find below the overall statistic I would like to mention a cool feature. The new WordPress stats page allows you to arrange as well as minimize your extra stats boxes. So you can decide which information are more important to you and need to be directly under the overall statistic and which details can be further below.

INTERNeX NAFSA Reception – SEO, Social Media and Online Marketing Strategy by Simok33

What and event, eh? So many people came to the INTERNeX Class of 2011 at the Blarney Stone. We calculated that we had an overall of 400-500 guests during the evening. A School Bus was picking up people from around the Vancouver Convention Centre, as well other receptions. A DJ and a live band was playing fantastic music. The food was great and I had lots of drinks and chats with many amazing people.

The INTERNeX PR team were mainly running the show. Elvera was the host of the evening, Elke was the Gamemaster and Franziska was in charge of the Photo booth. Claudia, who already knew a lot of people, because she went to the NAFSA conference itself, was greeting special guests and was also making sure everyone had a good time.

Goodbye Tazzu

Today I saw on Facebook that Tazzu, Vancouver’s Business and Technology Community, closed it’s virtual doors. I was part of that wonderful community since it started in September 2006 as a phpBB Forum. Many great people joined Tazzu over the years and step by step it became a very important platform to exchange information. But Tazzu wasn’t just a Forum. Tazzu organized as well many network events, WordPress and Joomla Camps as well as the first Joomla day in Canada in 2008, the “Joomla Day Vancouver” where I won a book about Joomla Templates.

The new INTERNeX Blog Template

In one of my previous articles I mention that I changed the template of my personal Blog. The reasons were that I thought the Template that I started using fit’s better with my Blog posts and I also wanted to use the other template to “renovate” the INTERNeX Blog, because I thought that my previous template fit’s so much better with the goals from INTERNeX.

Some of you may know that I am working as IT and PR Manager for INTERNeX International Exchange, an organization that helps young professionals to gain work experience abroad.

INTERNeX arranges professional, tailor made internship placements as well as placements in the hospitality industry via the city placement and hospitality program. They also offer Ranchstay and Volunteer programs for those who are interested in wildlife and / or country site experience.

Password security

We all use many different kind of online services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn as well as Email and online Banking. To access them we need an username and a password. But many people make the mistake and use very easy passwords that often is a combination of their name and date of birth. People ask me how to make a very secure password. Here are some tips to make your password stronger.

First Tip…