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KubeSummit 2021 – Register today!

February 22, 2021 by user Leave a Comment

Source: IBM newsletter dated Feb 22, 2021

Containers have become a powerful platform for addressing several critical concerns of application developers, including the need for faster delivery, agility, portability, modernization and life cycle management.

KubeSummit 2021 is an IBM Developer Community flagship conference which brings adopters and technologists from leading container communities together to share best practices, use cases and concepts to help you adopt Kubernetes in your work environment.

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WPForms and its integration with all major email marketing software: Demo of Sendinblue integration

February 17, 2021 by Rajeev Bagra Leave a Comment

For building an email list of a WordPress site, consider WPForms and OptinMonster.

A. Static and dynamic forms with WPForms and OptinMonster respectively

WPForms is focused on creating static forms, such as admission form for a computer training company; OptinMonster on contextual forms based on visitors’ activities, such as exit popups once a visitor sensed exiting the website.

WPForms and OptinMonster together help interact with the visitors through forms that are optimized for WordPress CMS. They load fast while consuming the least resource. While OptinMonster is platform independent, WPForms only for WordPress.

Features like multipage forms, online payment through the form (PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.Net integration), conversational forms justify premium pricing of WPForms. So is the case with OptinMonster with exit intent technology, content locking, coupon wheels campaign, count down timers, MonsterEffects, and more…

B. How WPForms/OptinMonster relate with email marketing software

One may wonder if indeed I am using an email marketing software, why then spend on WPForms/OptinMonster if indeed forms and popups can be created even from an email marketing software. The answer is that with WPForms/OptinMonster, you get a whole host of features pertinent to static/dynamic forms that are perhaps not available with your email marketing software under one package. WPForms and OptinMonster have kept their niche limited to what they stand for, collecting leads. For making the most of leads, both WPForms and OptinMonster integrate with all major email marketing software. For this article, we examine WPForms integration with Sendinblue.

C. Integrating WPForms with Sendinblue

For this article, we take a look at the process of integrating WPForms with Sendinblue.

With Sendinblue addon, forms created using WPForms can be connected with Sendinblue. Users added through WordPress forms can be appended to your choice of lists in Sendinblue. Users can be unsubscribed, deleted, or tracked for events.

Sendinblue addon is available with Plus plan and above.

Install and activate WPForms on your WordPress site.

C.(i) Connecting WPForms with Sendinblue account

Next, move on to Addons under WPForms on left sidebar of WordPress admin dashboard.

You get a list of all available addons with your plan.

You can also use the search button to locate addons.

In case the addon does not appear, click Refresh Addons.

The above screenshot is for locating AWeber addon. A similar process will apply for Sendinblue.

Next, move on to the Integrations menu.

Click Add New Account.

Need to fill Sendinblue API Key and Nickname (optional).

Click Connect to Sendinblue button and you are taken to your Sendinblue account. Click on the main menu (top right corner), select SMTP & API.

API Key can be viewed from here.

Copy API Key from above and move on to WPForms settings in order to paste the copied API key. Nickname is optional and for internal reference in case more Sendinblue accounts are connected.

The status now showing Connected.

C.(ii) Integrating a form (created using WPForms) with Sendinblue

Now comes the time to integrate a form with Sendinblue. Either create a new form or edit an existing one. Under Marketing of form builder, click Sendinblue and Add New Connection.

Enter any nickname (for internal reference only).

Under Select Account, you get a list of all connected Sendinblue accounts. Choose the one you would like to connect with the present form.

Once you select your choice of Action to Perform, additional settings will populate for configuration.

In the above screenshot, under Email, select the WPForms field with email address of subscribers.

New Email is for updating an existing list with a WPForms field that will have a new email address of the subscriber. For this example, it can be left blank.

List will fetch all Sendinblue lists. Choose the one that will add subscribers.

Any custom Sendinblue field can be mapped to WPForms field.

With WPForms’ conditional logic, so-called hyper-segmented lists can be created for better outcomes. The next step would be to create email marketing campaigns on Sendinblue making the most of their tools with professional designs, personalization, and automation capabilities.

Almost using the same method as described above for Sendinblue, WPForms integrates seamlessly with all the major email marketing software/CRM including:

ConstantContact
AWeber
Mailchimp
GetResponse
CampaignMonitor
ActiveCampaign
SalesForce
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New Courses Available at edX!

February 10, 2021 by user Leave a Comment

Some of the latest courses available at edX!

Professional Certificate in Excel – 5 months Course – Was £325, Now £293

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Grammarly: Our tone suggestions help you tailor your tone to your reader

December 9, 2020 by Splendid Team Leave a Comment

Source: Grammarly newsletter dated Dec 8, 2020

Every message we write has an intended tone. But unlike with speaking or signing, you don’t have the nuance of body language or vocal inflection to convey your tone when you’re writing an email or instant message. Without these indicators, it can be hard to tell if your reader is receiving the full, nuanced meaning of your message.

Grammarly’s new and improved tone suggestions can help with this. When you use Grammarly in your browser, you can get an assessment of how your text might land with your reader, as well as suggestions for how to refine your tone.

Here’s how to make the most of Grammarly’s tone suggestions:

How to see tone suggestions

Once you have opened the Grammarly browser extension, you can access the tone suggestions in two ways from the floating sidebar. You can click on an individual tone suggestion (they’re outlined in purple), which will take you to options for how to shift your tone to better match your intended goals.

You can also click on the “Predictions” bar at the bottom of the sidebar. This will take you to the tone detector, where you’ll find a list of tone suggestions.

Strike the right tone

The tone suggestions you might see are tailored around a few common tones—ones that may be difficult to achieve if you’re not editing specifically for them.

Request politely

When you are trying to get something you need, there’s a time to sound forceful and a time to sound polite. When you need to use a bit more tact, Grammarly’s tone suggestions can help find sentences that might come across to your reader as confrontational and provide ways to soften them.

Impolite: Tell me if you can’t finish this assignment by the deadline.

Polite: Let me know if you can’t finish the assignment by the deadline.

Disagree diplomatically

It’s healthy to have differences in approach when you’re working with a variety of people. But if you want to maintain friendly working relationships, it’s important to know how to disagree tactfully. The Grammarly browser extension suggests different ways to phrase disagreement, depending on how much tact you need to use.

Harsh: I hate the way our current process is structured.

Tactful: I’m not too fond of the way our current process is structured.

Express yourself with confidence

There’s such a thing as having too much tact, especially when you’re suggesting a brilliant idea or need to set a strict deadline or boundary. When your inclination is to be a bit too self-effacing, Grammarly will suggest phrases that can help you remove phrases that undercut your message, so you can deliver your message with confidence.

Hedging: I may be wrong, but I think this is the best way to go.

Confident: I think this is the best way to go.

Write earnestly

No one goes through life completely composed and unruffled. When you’re frustrated, it can be tough to write from a place of patience and empathy. The Grammarly browser extension can find phrases in your text that may come off as defensive or passive-aggressive and suggest ways to remove the barbs.

Passive-aggressive: Thanks for wasting my time.

Straightforward: I feel that you wasted my time.

Best way to test coding skills – take the new Developer Economics survey!

December 8, 2020 by Splendid Team Leave a Comment

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