The Cotton Club Podcast & Blog

EP:016 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:16:56 +0000

On this episode of The Cotton Club my guests, Keith Crawford, Brant Collins, Robert Blake, Steven Trotter, and Garth Bowman, discussed a wide variety of topics related to the recent Apple event including Apple TV, the Ping social network, and the changes to iTunes. We also discussed content delivery and how players like Netflix [...]

COCOCAST Episode 5

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:42:28 +0000

Last week I was invited by my good friends Dan Decker and Arlton Lowry to be a guest on their weekly show, the Cococast. The topics we covered on the show were all pretty much related to Apple and their recent consumer event. Doing this show was a blast and the guys kept me rolling [...]

Group Discount for SXSWi

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:11:09 +0000

Last year I reached out to the SXSW people and was able to establish a group discount for the #RefreshCA group for South by Southwest Interactive. The only catch was that we needed to get 20 people together to qualify for this group discount and we came up a little short on that part. This [...]

Presentation: GeoSocial Shakedown

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:30:46 +0000

Wow, we had an awesome time at Barcamp Conway! Arlton Lowry did an excellent job putting this conference together in such a short period of time and the University of Central Arkansas was an awesome venue! The turnout was awesome, for my session on GeoSocial my wife counted 40 people, and I think there were [...]

EP:015 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:05:37 +0000

Wow, this weeks show was off the charts. My co-hosts Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, and Robert Blake welcomed Dave Olson from Hootsuite to the show to discuss Hootsuite’s new freemium-premium pricing plans. Dave was an awesome guest and really did an excellent job explaining their new rate plans as well as their enterprise plan. If [...]

What’s In Your Toolbox?

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:36:35 +0000

It’s going to be a long weekend… With the help of my good friend Keith Crawford, I plan on reformatting my primary development machine today and doing a clean install of Windows 7. This project is long overdue, I can’t remember the last time I reformatted my drive, in fact this SATA drive that I am [...]

EP:014 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:23:16 +0000

This evening I recorded another episode of The Cotton Club Podcast with Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, and Mitch Canter. It was awesome to have Mitch on the show w/ us this evening because he is an authority on all things wordpress in my opinion. Keith and I first met Mitch at Wordcamp Fayetteville earlier [...]

Do You Wireframe Client Projects?

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:31:07 +0000

Recently I have been trying to move toward computer generated wireframes because they are a lot cleaner than the mockups I have been sketching out by hand for clients. I have found that these mockups give me a starting place while meeting with the client to markup a game plan or layout changes that [...]

Shark Fishing on Hilton Head Island

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:54:23 +0000

I chartered the USS Cajun and Captain Fred Mix of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to take my family and I on a once in a lifetime Shark fishing adventure. The first day we went out w/ him to survey the area and look for dolphins in the channels running through the island and [...]

Pleth Adds 2 New Team Members

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:01:40 +0000

This past week my partners and I have been busy making preparations to add 2 new members to our team; Steven Trotter and Craig McCoy, both of Jonesboro, are going to bring a ton of expertise to our team and infrastructure. I have been connected with both of these guys for a while on [...]

EP:013 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:08:09 +0000

Recently I was in a Batesville, Arkansas Hotel Room visiting w/ Steven Trotter, Craig McCoy, and Khara Cavaness about Co-Working and the upcoming BarCamp Jonesboro and BarCamp Conway and we decided to give Dan Decker from the Conway Co-Working a call to record this episode of The Cotton Club. This show is dedicated entirely [...]

BarCamp Conway – Aug. 20th

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:32:00 +0000

Note: Due to the overwhelming response from the Central Arkansas community, the location has been moved to the UCA College of Business, so disregard the poster graphic. Will get that swapped out asap. *currently on vacation… Okay, so we have some really cool things going on here in Conway these days. On August 20, 2010 at [...]

Do You Use Project Management?

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:59:41 +0000

I had someone ask me on Facebook and another on Twitter this weekend, which project management software I recommended. I immediately said Basecamp. Although recently, we switched to ActiveCollab at Pleth for managing our open projects because it integrated w/ QuickBooks a lot easier than Basecamp. For a company like ours w/ offices in [...]

Conway Co-Work on the News…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:47:05 +0000

Okay, so yesterday I am working from home, into my third day of battling some weird flu-like symptoms that have one of my ears completely stopped up and I can’t hear a thing out of it. Well out of the blue I get a video call on Skype and it’s my good friend Arlton Lowry [...]

EP:012 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:58:16 +0000

Well I think we figured out in this episode of The Cotton Club Podcast exactly how important a reliable internet connection is to producing a show like this. My guests Keith Crawford, Brant Collins, Robert Blake, Craig McCoy, Arlton Lowry, and Steven Trotter were all gracious despite the fact we were disconnected 4 times [...]

Let’s Discuss Social Media Taboo

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:26:28 +0000

Okay, let me get started by saying that I don’t blog a lot about social media anymore because I don’t want to fall into the category of being a self-proclaimed guru, but I do this for a living, and yes I have clients that pay me to do this for them as well, so [...]

25% Barcamp Jonesboro Discount

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:02:54 +0000

If you haven’t registered yet for Barcamp Jonesboro it’s not too late. The event is scheduled for September 25th and will be held on the campus of ASU. There is a 25% discount for all Central Arkansas Refresh members that can be used for all tickets, including corporate. To register, just visit their eventbrite page [...]

Bringing Gowalla to Your Site

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:49:00 +0000

It’s no great secret that I am a Gowalla fanatic. Out of all of the geo-social apps on the market today (Foursquare, Brightkite, and Loopt) I see Gowalla as the premier app. As soon as Gowalla gets it’s Blackberry app going full steam I think we are all going to see it steal a [...]

Need Input on #RefreshCA

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:53:56 +0000

I have been extremely busy the past few months and haven’t had a lot of spare time to dedicate to #RefreshCA. From what I have gathered several of you guys in the community have been pretty busy yourselves. Last month I put out a feeler to see if anyone had anything they wanted [...]

Current Projects: UCA SGA

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:25:00 +0000

This past month I have been juggling several projects and I haven’t been updating my blog w/ updates like normal. The truth is I have had a lot of open projects here and there that I haven’t been able to wrap up for various reasons out of my control, I hope this week I am [...]

EP:011 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:32:29 +0000

I think I learned something very important during this episode of The Cotton Club, the planned shows where we work from an outline of things to discuss don’t turn out near as well as the shows that are totally unplanned open conversations. In this episode my guests, Robert Blake, Brant Collins, Steven Trotter and [...]

Project: Fayetteville Shale

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:42:00 +0000

I recently launched a new website for the Fayetteville Shale Scholarship Fund. I have actually had this project open for a while now awaiting content. I think the end product turned out very well. I used Woo Themes as the foundation for this project and it fit very well into my design for them. [...]

Project: Wordpress Theme

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:35:00 +0000

One of the coolest things about Wordpress in my opinion is that when a client calls and wants a redesign or a fresh look for their website, it’s just a matter of sitting down and coding a new theme. I launched Indian Hills Country Club first in 2001 and we have redesigned the website 3 [...]

Projects: Lyon College

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:19:00 +0000

While I have been busy lately working on a project for the University of Central Arkansas here in Conway, our Batesville team has been hard at work on a project for Lyon College. There will be a full press release on the Pleth corporate site soon on the Lyon project but basically it consisted of [...]

Excluding Category from Feed (WP)

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:15:00 +0000

I know that there are probably some plugins out there that will accomplish this same exact thing but if you are looking for a way to exclude a category on the fly with a wordpress website, this method will work. Just locate the category ID# and append it to your feed in Feedburner like [...]

BP Spills Coffee

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:56:28 +0000

This video has been circulating on Twitter this morning. While I don’t think what has happened in the Gulf of Mexico is funny, this video accurately points out how well BP is handling the situation. Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Clip this to Evernote Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Email this via Gmail Add this [...]

This is sooooo true…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:33 +0000

Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Clip this to Evernote Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Add this to Google Reader Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a friend? Post this to MySpace Ping this on Ping.fm Share this on Plaxo Post this to Posterous Add to a lense on Squidoo Stumble [...]

Pleth to Sponsor AHEWC

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:18:00 +0000

My partner Stephen is going to be posting a full press release on the Pleth corporate site about this soon but I wanted to also make mention of the fact that Pleth will be sponsoring the Arkansas Higher Education Web Conference this year. The Arkansas Higher Education Web Conference, or AHEWC, is the brainchild [...]

Premium Wordpress Hosting

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:00:00 +0000

I have been thinking a lot lately about our hosting business at Pleth. We never have really fit into our industry very well because our philosophy is completely different than 90% of the hosting companies in business today. Most web hosting companies offer low-cost hosting plans with very few bells and whistles so they [...]

#WCFAY High Points

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:03:00 +0000

This past weekend Keith Crawford and I headed to Fayetteville w/ our wives to attend Wordcamp Fayetteville. We were also meeting several friends from Central Arkansas at the conference like Brent Passmore, Daniel Spillers, Aaron Baker, Tonya Smith, Shelley Keith, and a few others (I probably left someone out, sorry). When we got into [...]

#WCFAY Mitch Canter – WP3

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:15:50 +0000

Mitch also did a session this weekend on Wordpress 3.0 because there was a lot of buzz about 3 since the release candidate 1 was just pushed out the door the prior week. In this session Mitch touches on some of the high points that are coming w/ version 3.0. There’s some really good information in [...]

#WCFAY Mitch Canter – Plugins

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:00:00 +0000

This is the video of Mitch Canter’s session on making Wordpress do everything. In this session he touched on running e-commerce through Wordpress as well as podcasting. He also mentions some very nice plugins that he uses on just about every project, ironically we have almost identical toolboxes when it comes to staple plugins. I had [...]

Rackspace Conference Interview

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:35:00 +0000

A few months ago I was interviewed at the Rackspace Reseller Conference in Atlanta, Georgia about a variety of topics related to Rackspace. As some of you might already be aware I am a huge fan of Rackspace as a company and their CEO Graham Weston, who shares a very similar service philosophy as [...]

#WCFAY Live Blogging

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:32:56 +0000

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Thoughts on BP Disaster

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:31:41 +0000

I have tweeted several short rants about the BP oil spill this past week but have tried to stay somewhat silent on the issue until I learned a little bit more. I don’t consider myself an environmentalist, but seeing what’s happening to the beaches in Louisiana has me pretty ticked off. The problem is [...]

Pleth to Sponsor Wordcamp #wcfay

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:00:06 +0000

My partners and I are pleased to announce that Pleth will be sponsoring this years Wordcamp Fayetteville on May 29-30, 2010 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This will be the first ever Wordcamp in Arkansas. From the minute I heard about the conference I knew that I wanted our company to be involved with it in [...]

Funny Church Sign

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:04:45 +0000

LOL, this kind of cracked me up this morning when I saw this article on CNN this morning… Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Clip this to Evernote Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Add this to Google Reader Share this on LinkedIn Email this to a [...]

Your Thoughts on Wordpress?

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:00:00 +0000

I pretty much develop all of my clients websites these days using wordpress as the backend content management system unless there are some really far out project requirements that I don’t see wordpress as a good fit for. Honestly I don’t hear many project requirements these days that won’t work inside of wordpress, especially [...]

My Sunday Evening Rant

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:36:00 +0000

I was in my office this morning working on a project and before watching our church live stream I turned on some of the Sunday morning political pundits to see what they were talking about. I heard one of the hosts say that The Huffington Post was celebrating it’s 5th year online this weekend. [...]

EP:010 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:45:37 +0000

In this episode of The Cotton Club my guests Keith Crawford and Christopher Spencer discuss the upcoming Wordcamp Fayetteville scheduled for May 29th in Northwest Arkansas. Since this is the first Wordcamp to be held in Arkansas it’s kind of a big deal for those of us who use Wordpress daily and build client [...]

EP:009 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Just wrapped up another episode of The Cotton Club Podcast tonight w/ guest hosts Brant Collins and Robert Blake. The topic for discussion for this evenings show was SEO, or search engine optimization. I have actually gotten a lot of requests from people to do a show on this topic so hopefully we did a [...]

Genesis Framework 101

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:50:44 +0000

I have been working on a project involving the beta release of Wordpress 3.0 and the Studiopress Genesis Theme Framework this week and I have to say the more I use this combination I can see how things are fixing to change in the CMS world. For the better too I might add. The Wordpress [...]

Looking for an Internship?

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:15:20 +0000

Are you a software developer looking for a job? One of my contacts at Acxiom forwarded this request to me this morning and I thought I would pass it along because lately I have been seeing a lot of job inquiries from some really good people. Since my partners and I aren’t hiring at [...]

Embedding Tweets w/ Wordpress

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sun, 09 May 2010 04:43:00 +0000

Last night Keith Crawford brought up something in The Cotton Club Podcast that has been out for a little while now but I just haven’t had a chance to really sit down and play with, and that’s embedding tweets into Wordpress blog posts. If you are an avid Twitter user, you probably already know [...]

EP:008 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:59:40 +0000

This weeks show was sort of an experimentation in that we had four guests on at once via Skype as opposed to just Keith and I, I think the end result was pretty awesome, we only had one glitch in the middle of the show and it was minor. This week my guests for The Cotton [...]

#ToadsuckTweetup Video

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:39:48 +0000

This is a video that was shot during the first Toadsuck Tweetup here in Conway. As you can see from the video, it was an awesome turnout despite the weather that plagued the area the night before… Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Clip this to Evernote Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Email this [...]

Wordcamp Fayetteville #WCFay

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:44:18 +0000

I don’t know how this one slipped by me but there is a Wordcamp coming to Fayetteville at the Fayetteville Town Center on May 29th and 30th. I was talking to Brent Passmore tonight on Twitter and he filled me in and I immediately registered online. If you are a wordpress guru in the [...]

#ToadSuckDaze Gowalla Stamp!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:53:45 +0000

Okay, so I reached out to Gowalla to help us promote this weekends Toadsuck Daze Festival in Conway by creating a custom Gowalla Event Stamp and wow did they ever come through for us. I can’t say enough how awesome Sandi and the crew there have been to work with in putting this thing [...]

RSVP for #ToadsuckTweetup!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:39:27 +0000

You can RSVP online for the Toadsuck Tweetup this Saturday at noon in the square! By doing so it will give us a good idea as to how many people we can expect to attend. Just select YES in the box below to RSVP. Thanks, and stay tuned for more news and information. I am [...]

Toadsuck Tweetup – This Saturday

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:39:56 +0000

We have finally arrived on a date and a time for our first Toadsuck Tweetup. We will have the tweetup on Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at 12 noon at Toadsuck Square. The event is open to any Twitter users / enthusiasts in town for the festival. We will have prizes and giveaways for those [...]