• All in One SEO Pack – Automatically optimizes your blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) – Downloads 1,603,368

• Google XML Sitemaps – Create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your blog – Downloads 954,459

• NextGEN Gallery – A full integrated Image Gallery WordPress plugin with a Flash slideshow option – Downloads 715,819

• WP.com Stats – You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WP.com’s stat system – Downloads 712,71

• WP Super Cache – A very fast caching engine that produces static html files – Downloads 492,637

• Contact Form 7 – Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible – Downloads 393,916

• Automatic upgrade – Allows a user to automatically upgrade the installation to the latest one – Downloads 288,600

• Sociable – Automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites to your posts, pages and RSS feed - Downloads 284,117

• Viper’s Video Quicktags – Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more – Downloads 254,807

• Simple Tags – The successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is THE perfect tool to perfectly manage your WP tags – Downloads 254,353

• WP-DB-Backup – On-demand backup of your database – Downloads 250,795

• Google Analytics – Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics – Downloads 239,837

• Google Analyticator – Same as the one above, enables Google Analytics tracking - Downloads 229,970

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• WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your blog. You can also easily add a poll into your blog post / page – Downloads 222,196

• Sidebar Widgets – Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu – Downloads 221,024

• podPress – A dream WordPress plugin for podcasters – Downloads 207,491

• WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation your blog – Downloads 204,005

Hootsuite was the answer to our prayers. Having multiple profiles through Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, our username/passwords were getting very hectic to keep track of. We’ve consolidated and have become extremely efficient now with our social media. I’d recommend to fellow businesses who are using social media daily.

No matter where you work or what kind of business you have- at least one person in a business or organization should know how to work at least the basics of Photoshop. The times where only web and graphic designers worked with Photoshop are over- Photoshop offers such an incredible resource to promote your business and/ or your products and services that nobody should miss out on working with it. No matter if you work on an flyer, a print ad, a posting, a logo, an image or display- the features of Photoshop will always improve your design.

The great thing about Photoshop is that it is actually fun to work with – I never met someone getting annoyed or bored working with the program. You can learn how to work the different features of Photoshop step by step by yourself. After a couple weeks learning all the great tools the program offers you will create incredible images and displays.

There are thousands of tutorials and lectures out there on how to use Photoshop. But most of them are very advanced and assume you already know the basics of Photoshop. If you are a very beginner and you never actually worked with Photoshop you should look at this tutorial.

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