The 42nd Estate

We’re big fans of the City of Boston run group Boston Young Entreprenuers, having received excellent advice and met tons of awesome people via BYE. The featured company for November’s meeting has been announced and it’s Emergent Energy Group. Read the full post

A great site that is search engine friendly and more importantly useful to your visitors serves no purpose if the server struggles and doesn’t keep the site up consistently and reliably. Monitoring your sites for uptime is a crucial aspect of running a successful web-site. If you’re not already keeping track of your site’s uptime, here’s five free tools to check if your site is up and running. Read the full post

So far, the Marketing workshops organized by the BRA and the City of Boston have been a great success. The crowd yesterday was awesome, involved and asked lots of questions. If you were at either of the events this week and have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below or send us an e-mail. Read the full post

Member of The 42nd Estate, Justin Wright, today celebrates one year of self-employement. Head over to his blog and join in the celebration. He uses the occasion to drop ten self employment lessons he’s learned over the past twelve months that’ll come in handy whether you’re just starting out on your own or have been at it for a while. Read the full post

Wordpress 2.8.5 has just been released. The main additions are security tweaks, which makes the update a must download. Read the full post