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• A few students were misusing computer use at school, so we suspended their school Google Apps account. One-click to suspend. Easy. #
• It would be nice if Google Apps lets you filter student accounts. Ex: Filter by account status to pull up all the students who are suspended #
• Amazon Associate affiliate program doesn't allow you to offer rewards or rebates as incentive to use the link http://tinyurl.com/nhsogp #
• WordPress as a CMS platform by using custom fields: http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/wordpress-cms-custom-fields/ #
• Could you use the front-end editor plugin as a way to edit custom fields easily? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/faq/ #
• Custom database tables that can be managed from the WordPress backend: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/database-table-manager/ #
• Twitter search operators: http://help.twitter.com/entries/71577-advanced-twitter-search-operators #
• TODO: Set up Clickadee to work with linkshare and amazon affiliate links #
• Twitter as a To-Do list: Add a tag TODO in your tweet. Search from:your-twitter-name TODO will pull up your list. Save search in the sidebar #
• Affiliate-lite wordpress plugin: Wish there was a way to have only certain users / blogs be affiliates. No need to have students sign up. #
• TODO: Block certain WPMU users from becoming affiliates (affiliate-lite plugin). Maybe set up another WPMU with different plugins? #
• TODO: Find wordpress plugin that does nice nested comments #

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