Using Highrise for contact managment    September 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am

Normally I don’t exude high levels of salesmanship. My rout is simple, “You want this? No? Ok.” I certainly don’t run around selling other people’s products or services unless they are just unbelievably good. And as for affiliate programs this would be a first for me also.

Do you ever find yourself searching your mail client folders looking to see what you’ve said to a contact? Unless you set up a rule that automatically puts what you’ve sent in that folder you probably only half half the conversation (the email that was sent to you). Then you go digging through your sent mail box or your trash. Gmail does a really good job of keeping and organizing your data but I use my inbox as a todo list. If its sitting in my inbox it requires action, most likely immediate.

Here is where Highrise comes in. Lets say I get an email from a client with some details I need but don’t need to respond to. I simply forward this email to my HighRise account. If the contact does not exist it creates the contact for me. Later I can go in and add more information. Two weeks goes by and I have to send an email to the client. I want to document this communication so I BCC a copy to my HighRise account. Now all my correspondence with client is in one place in chronological order. I can set tasks that are associated with the client and receive reminder emails. I can add notes and also associate the client with a company. Now when I’m talking to multiple people from the same company it is all filed under the company in chronological order. You can add dates, reminders, tags. The layout is aesthetic and intuitive. Oh and the base plan is free.

HighRise really shines when you have multiple users that share information. You can share files, notes, contact information all under one URL. I can’t imagine a business that couldn’t use Highrise.

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PHP to upload, resize and store multiple images.    April 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Here is a PHP script sample that uploads multiple images, resizes the images, creates a thumbnail and stores the image pathname with descriptions in a MySQL database. The original code is modified from this example here. The major differences are the quality of images stored and the ability to store multiple images as well as a thumbnail.

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