Landscaping Connections forum beta testers

Calling all people who enjoy breaking things! Never had a chance to register that elusive username that someone always seemed to nab before you?

Now you can! My latest web project, another web forum, needs beta testers. So come create an account and try to break as many functions as you can, by using the old totally-unexpected-user-behaviour pattern. I’ll even give you a cookie (oh god, that was a terrible pun). Judging by the number of comments on this site, I don’t expect to get inundated but one or two people would work well.

It’s affiliated the main site, Landscaping Connections (that I didn’t build but have had the pleasure of fixing bugs in), to include a forum for people to talk about landscaping-related design and things. The backend is the wonderful, lightweight bbpress (made by the same team that created Wordpress). But bbpress is still essentially beta and I’ve heavily modified the frontend (and some of the functions and redirects) - so I’m hoping everything is rock solid. Next goal is to populate it since no-one wants to be the first person at the party…think I’ll leave that to someone else.

And now for something completely different…
I was browsing Slideshare the other day and found some really interesting presentations on there. Here’s two of them, check ‘em out:

• Light Up Your Brand - A great presentation on effective advertising, marketing products and the web’s strengths in word-of-mouth and viral. Ah, aren’t human behaviours so predictable.
• 7 Reasons why most conversations are a waste of time - Satirical but so true. Most people are so busy talking they don’t ever listen. So on that note, I’ll let you find out on your own.