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Nike VP-Brand and Category Management Trevor Edwards declared that the marketer’s TV creative for June’s World Cup was “among the best we’ve ever done,” which is pretty ballsy to say from a company that has pretty much cornered the market for epic badass commercials. I’ll have to admit it’s a VERY well-done and incredibly smart commercial.

Be sure to Like the whole campaign on Facebook as well as watch the video on Youtube

The cover for female Indy Car driver Milka Dunno's new children's book.

The beautiful and intelligent Indy Car driver turned childrens book author, Milka Duno, will be signing her new book, “Go, Milka, Go!” on April 14th from 6-9PM at Libreria Martinez located in the Artists Village in Santa Ana at 216 N. Broadway.  Bring your kids, nieces, nephews, your camera, and meet Milka while supporting a pillar in the Orange County community and one of the few surviving independent book stores.  Here’s some more info on Milka.  http://bit.ly/bNv1qv

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Libreria Martinez-the bookstore that has been a long time Santa Ana, CA landmark- is owned by Rueben Martinez.  Rueben is a sought after speaker, literacy advocate, and is both a MacArthur and Chapman University Presidential Fellow, which are just two of his many awards and appointments.  Libreria Martinez has recently reopened at its new location 216 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA in the Artists Village.

Click on the link below to take a listen of what will be the first of many phlogs from me and the rest of the Mobo Media team.

*Update, I went back and embedded the iPadio file directly into the post.  Check it out!

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Designers, are you looking to streamline the way you proof with clients? Look no further!

In one of our previous posts, we reviewed the Conceptshare system. The above video is a quick run through highlighting some of the features of the Conceptshare workspace, showing you how the platform could help make your life just a bit easier and your clients much happier.

Have you ever searched for hours trying to find a WordPress template the suites your needs?

Or have you ever just wanted make certain modifications to an existing theme but didn’t know how? Well you might want to pick-up a copy of “WordPress 2.8 Theme Design” written by Tessa Blakeley Silver. Not only does this book give many illustrations on how to set-up well defined code that is SEO optimized, but it also shows you how to choose practical color schemes, build layout’s from scratch, debug and validate, package your theme, and many other tips and tricks necessary to design a well articulated and functional WordPress website.

Take note, this book doesn’t require any knowledge of CSS or PHP coding, but will require the designer to have a strong familiarity of how WordPress operates and a basic understanding of text and graphic editors such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop. So if you want to dive into the WordPress abyss, and put your design skills to the test, we urge you to give this book a try.

So you want to get into blogging and you are going to try your hand at this Wordpress that everybody is talking about. Where do you go? How do you begin? Is the installation process difficult?

These are just a few of the questions that you may be asking as you begin to go down the rabbit hole into the wonderful world of Wordpress. Fear not though, in continuing with our series of screencast tutorials, the above video will walk you through the installation and configuration of your Wordpress site, including how to set-up your database, the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org, and more.

Still have some questions? You can check out this handy guide or you can leave a comment below and we’ll be glad to help you out as well!

Happy Wordpressing!

I am sure many people are wondering if WordPress has an ecommerce plug-in that can compete with other shopping carts on the web. Well, the answer is YES! The Wordpress E-commerce plug-in for is an easy-to-use, customizable plug-in that adds e-commerce capabilities to any Wordpress site with ease.

With its multiple tools, including some of my favorites such as themes settings, ship by weight or flat rate, multiple payment options, cross marketing, size and color variations, sales tracking, and hundreds more, this plug-in has it all! It even has a premium upgrade feature where you can purchase additional tools such as selling MP3’s, drag and drop shopping cart, and member’s only module. So if you’re deciding on setting up a WordPress website that needs a flexible yet easy to operate ecommerce module,give the WP E-commerce plug-in a try!

Do you know of some different plug-ins? Do you currently use an e-commerce plug-in? Leave a comment and let us know!

Attention all So Cal business owners and tweeps. Clear your schedules on February 18th for the first ConnectOC event being held at the Costa Mesa Hilton. This event is bringing together all of he Orange County professionals to meet, mix, mingle, and more.

Founded by a few Orange County Professionals, ConnectOC was devised as a central portal of event-hosting for Orange County Networking throughout the year. The mission of ConnectOC is to use social media to connect, socialize, network and contribute in meaningful ways to each other, the Orange County community as well as the local economy.

Hit the jump for the full press release of the event or click the link to view a list of event sponsors that can be found on the group website: www.facebook.com/connectoc

RSVP and be sure not to miss this fantastic event!

CONNECTOC Event Rings in New Year at Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa

COSTA MESA, Calif., January 15, 2010 – Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa is ringing in the New Year in style by hosting ConnectOC’s inaugural event, Welcome to 2010, on Thursday, February 18 from 6:00pm-9:00pm. There is no charge for attendance.

The first 200 attendees will receive complimentary drink tickets along with appetizers. Goody bags of donated items from numerous Orange County businesses will be available for attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis. Nintendo Wii stations will be set-up throughout the venue and Hilton Executive Chef Chad Krahling has designed a specially priced, food and beverage menu for those who would like to order additional items.

“We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to broaden familiarity with our hotel,” says Christine Weijland, Hilton’s E-Commerce manager. With the event being leveraged primarily though social media, she said the hotel’s sales and marketing staff hopes to introduce the additional functionality of the hotel, its restaurant and meeting space to the local community.

Self-parking is $5 and all revenues will donated to Share Our Selves (www.shareourselves.org), a local charity battling homelessness and poverty. Numerous OC companies, restaurants and hotels have kindly donated items, giftcards, services, hotel stays and much more toward the silent auction, the evening’s primary fundraising venture.

“I’m happy to see so many of us local professionals using Social Media to stay in touch, be informed, and find opportunities. We are leading change, progress, and innovation.” said ConnectOC Co-founder Paul Tran, who is humbled by how many great businesses — despite 2009’s economic woes — are coming out to show love for great causes and for each other. “All of our attendees are in for a big treat, and if the positivity and community stimulus keeps up, so will our events!”