Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Dec 12
Awesomeness! Jetpack 2.7 Lets WordPress Users Auto-Post Content To Google+
For quite some time, users of Jetpack (and other similar WordPress plugins) have been able to auto-post out to Twitter and Facebook using the "Publicize" component of Jetpack, but posting to a Google+ page always required you to manually go to G+ to post the link. As a result, it was just yet-another-step that sometimes didn't happen. This was particularly true for scheduled posts that you might arrange to go out at particular times when staff were not available to post the link into Google+. (I've scheduled posts like this any number of times when I'm going to be spending a day traveling on planes.)
This changes with Jetpack 2.7 and puts Google+ on equal footing with other services. Now when you configure "Publicize" within Jetpack you see this screen (shown on my Monadnock Curling Club web site):
You then are asked how you want to connect to Google+ for this WordPress site. You can either connect to your own G+ account or to any of the Google+ Pages for which you are a manager:
You next must approve the permissions and indicate who you want to see your posts:
One final step is to approve whether you want all users of the blog to be able to publicize the post through this Google+ connection:
That's it!
Now all your future posts will be publicized through Google+! I'd note that you do have the option to control on a per-post basis what services your content is auto-posted to. When you are in a post you can see right in the "Publish" box an area for "Publicize" and by clicking on an "Edit" link you can have control over what services get the post automatically and what the message will be:
In a very nice feature I found that you can click "Add New" and go through the process again to connect additional Google+ pages or accounts. Here I've configured posts to this blog to go not only to the Monadnock Curling Club page but also to my personal Google+ account:
All in all a very cool addition to Jetpack! Well worth the upgrade to 2.7 (or the installation of Jetpack if you're not using it yet). Looking forward to now being able to more regularly get my content into Google+.
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Dec 12
Video: An introduction to curling by David Murdoch
The folks at World Curling TV published this good “into to curling” tutorial from Scotland’s David Murdoch that explains the basics of curling:
Would you like to see the sport of curling brought to southwestern NH? If so, please help us get the word out and let us know you are interested!
Dec 12
First Geographic NewgTLD, .RUHR, Now Delegated (Featured Blog)
Each week ICANN has been delegating more new generic top-level domains (newgTLDs) and it's been somewhat entertaining to watch the list of delegated strings to see what new TLDs will enter the domain name space starting sometime in early 2014 when they become generally available for people to register new domains under. More...
Dec 10
Watch Olympic Curling Qualification LIVE This Week (Dec 10-15)
Want to see amazing Olympic-level curling live over the Internet? The World Curling Federation is streaming the Olympic Qualification Event live via YouTube. The schedule is online and runs from today, December 10, through Sunday, December 15, 2013. I saw part of the first Korea vs. Japan game today and it was excellent!
This is the first time this “OQE” event has been run as a way to identify the last two teams that will compete in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Essentially, there are already 8 curling teams qualified for the Sochi Olympics and this event is a chance for everyone who hasn’t already qualified to potentially earn one of the last two spots. The USA already qualified for the Women’s event but the USA Men’s curling team is in this event vying for one of the two men’s teams.
Note that the times on the schedule of games are in Central European Time, which is currently 6 hours ahead of US Eastern time.
Tune in to watch some excellent curling! And then… if you’d like to see the sport of curling brought to southwestern NH, help us get the word out and let us know you are interested!
Dec 10
India’s Dept of Telecommunications for Tamil Nadu Making Plans for Transition To IPv6
We were very pleased to see a report out of The Hindu that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is making a concerted effort to plan for the migration to IPv6. From the article:
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started compiling an inventory of all computer networks used by government departments, State and Central public sector undertakings and banks across Tamil Nadu for finalising a plan for transition to the next generation Internet address, IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6).
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The DoT’s road map envisaged complete migration to IPv6 by 2017-end as the address capacity of IPv4 had been exhausted. Besides freeing up space for more Internet users, the other benefits of the move to IPv6 include better quality of service for consumers, support for high-end applications and better security features. It is also proposed that the actual migration work will adopt a dual stack that will support both IPv4 and IPv6 platforms.
The DoT’s timeline for the migration is to have all public facing interfaces for government services available over both IPv4 and IPv6 by January 1, 2015.
Dec 09
TDYR #054 – On The Passing Of Nelson Mandela
Some thoughts on the passing of Nelson Mandela and reflections on both my youth growing up in the 70s and 80s with apartheid a global issue and also my trip this past summer to South Africa for the first time. Links referenced in the episode include:
https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-023-the-energy-of-africa
https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-022-africa-straight-up
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/on-nelson-mandela
Dec 09
FIR #733 – 12/9/13 – For Immediate Release
FIR's RSS feeds; Asia Report available as FIR Cut; Age of Context review is up; three interviews coming; LinkedConversations debuts; Thought Leadership podcast to premiere; FIR On Strategy promo; Quick News: Upworthy success breeds imitators, best practice guide for social media campaigns, FTC holds native advertising workshop, only 4% of languages used online; Ragan promo; News That Fits: knowing when you cross the legal line, how MasterCard is turning employees into ambassadors, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, Dan York's Tech Report, listener comments, how successful are companies with influencing communicators as CEOs?, are classic crisis case studies relevant?; how to comment; music from The Flavor Foundation; and more.
Dec 06
Want To Quickly Create A TLSA Record For DANE / DNSSEC?
Would you like to use the DANE protocol to secure your SSL/TLS certificate via DNSSEC? If so, the first step is to generate and publish a “TLSA record” in DNS – and that record generation can be a stumbling block for some people. While there are command-line tools such as just the basic “openssl” or Paul Wouter’s “hash-slinger“, Shumon Huque recently released a web interface that lets you easily create a TLSA record. As Shumon writes about on his blog, the tool is at:
All you need to do is to set the type of TLSA record you want to create, paste in the X.509 certificate, and enter the appropriate port number, protocol and domain name. Shumon’s script then generates the appropriate TLSA record that you can paste into your DNS zone file.
Last year, Shumon wrote a post on “DNSSEC and Certificates” where he walked through how to do this using openssl on the command line – this latest post now builds on that to make it even easier.
It’s excellent that Shumon has made this tool available and we look forward to seeing many more TLSA records out there! (If you have a SSL/TLS cert for your website, how about adding a TLSA record today?)
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Dec 06
Want To Quickly Create A TLSA Record For DANE / DNSSEC?
Would you like to use the DANE protocol to secure your SSL/TLS certificate via DNSSEC? If so, the first step is to generate and publish a “TLSA record” in DNS – and that record generation can be a stumbling block for some people. While there are command-line tools such as just the basic “openssl” or Paul Wouter’s “hash-slinger“, Shumon Huque recently released a web interface that lets you easily create a TLSA record. As Shumon writes about on his blog, the tool is at:
All you need to do is to set the type of TLSA record you want to create, paste in the X.509 certificate, and enter the appropriate port number, protocol and domain name. Shumon’s script then generates the appropriate TLSA record that you can paste into your DNS zone file.
Last year, Shumon wrote a post on “DNSSEC and Certificates” where he walked through how to do this using openssl on the command line – this latest post now builds on that to make it even easier.
It’s excellent that Shumon has made this tool available and we look forward to seeing many more TLSA records out there! (If you have a SSL/TLS cert for your website, how about adding a TLSA record today?)
