Pressroom Theme for Wordpress
FathomSEO has a nice new clean Wordpress theme geared towards businesses that need a pressroom design:
Social Media Pressroom Theme WordPress, Social Media Newsroom Template: Theme Name: Media Pressroom
Description: A clean, minimalist theme designed for use as a media pressroom.
Author: Fathom SEO, which offers search engine optimization and other online marketing services.
Author URL: http://www.fathomseo.com
View a live demo of this theme.
The simplicity and focus on social media is really compelling.
It’s increasingly clear that companies need to be approachable beyond just a “Contact Us” form. The integration of social media (networks, video, Twitter) present on the theme is a nice touch and positive step towards PR2.0.
Disqus Video Comments
Although I’m not particularly crazy about doing video comments myself, my fingers are crossed that Disqus integrates them soon:
Disqus Adding Video Comments; Will People Use Them?: “We’ve now learned that Disqus, a third-party commenting system, will be rolling out its own video commenting feature, likely later this week.”
I don’t necessarily see video comments catching on like wildfire, but they do provide an outlet for those among us who’d rather just hit record on the webcam and fire away. On my Mac, it’s incredibly easy to do quick and nice looking video and most modern computers are now shipping with high quality integrated webcams.
This isn’t a “game changer” feature, but it will be a nice addition.
BTW, if you’re not using Disqus on your blog, you’re really missing out. I’ve written about Disqus here many times and Scott Jangro has done a series of excellent posts about the comment solution as well.
