Review of Map Communications

I might not be able to categorize my posts at the moment, but life has to go on, and eventually the bug will get worked out, I just know it. So in the meantime, I’m going to keep going with my scheduled reviews, and try not to think of having no categories as the end of the world. Because it’s really not, right? Right?

This review is of Map Communications, which is an answering service company. If you are a parent, I bet you have called your doctor’s office at least once after hours looking for advice from the doctor, right? And you probably got the answering service, who took your name and number and maybe some other information, and then they paged your doctor to call you. Unless your doctor’s office has their own after-hours service, they more than likely used an answering service company, like Map Communications.

Until I started researching this post though, I had never really thought about what other uses there are for answering services. Say you are a busy executive who travels a lot on business. Calls are coming in to your office, people need to reach you-Map Communications has live operators who answer calls with the fastest pickup times in the industry, and can route the calls live to your cell phone or deliver messages to your pager, cell phone, email, or fax. You can also set up voicemail service with the capability to connect to a live operator in an emergency.

In this day and age, business takes place 24 hours a day. It is practically unthinkable to NOT be reachable, right? If it’s important that your calls be handled quickly, professionally, and correctly, see what an answering service like Map Communications can do for you or for your business.

This is me, trying very hard, not to freak the frak OUT

Last night I upgraded this blog to version 2.3.2 of WordPress. I lost all of my categories.

Let me repeat that. I lost ALL. OF. MY. CATEGORIES. Two and a half years’ worth of posts, now all labelled “uncategorized”.

WordPress Support’s suggestion was that I “drop all my database tables related to wordpress, check and rebuild them, and then run the upgrade again”.

I have no idea what that means.

Bluehost support says there is nothing wrong with my database tables.

I have no idea what to do except go through and re-categorize all those posts. I have no idea how many posts I have written-hundreds, for sure. Close to a thousand? Possibly. Great googley moogley, people.

If anyone knows what to do, and can explain it to my not-smarter-than-a-fifth-grader-brain, PLEASE speak up.

At least I get to create a new category for this post! Yippee.

P.S.-I created a category, the way you always do on the dashboard, by typing it into the box under “Categories” and clicking Add. Nothing happened. FRAK FRAK FRAK FRAK.

I have some serious thanking to do.

That’s a weird word isn’t it, “thanking”. But titling the post “I have some people to whom I would like to express my thanks” just seemed awkward. So, I’m sticking to “thanking”.

As much as I love Owen’s Comment Email Responder Plugin, when a post gets a lot of comments it can be hard to reply to each one individually, especially when it’s Christmas. So instead I’m going to do my replying here in this post, and give some Linky Love to all my great blog peeps at the same time. Here we go…

For their wonderful wishes on my Merry Christmas post, I’d like to thank-

Betsy (Mom 2 3)-I’m so glad you read my post and left a comment!

Diana-Thanks! Good luck with your New Year’s Resolution, I’ll be checking in on you throughout the year :)

Anna-No, that doesn’t make you a stalker, just a really good online friend :)

JavaJunkie-Well geez, sissy, find me on Facebook and friend me! And we’ll see you on Tuesday, yay!

Paula-I think one of the first comments I ever left you was about how similar our kiddos’ hair is! Glad you are back :)

Shantanu-Thank you for your kind comment! I wish you success in the New Year as well.
AverageJane-I’m sure glad we met at BlogHer, brief as it was. I hope I see you next summer as well!
Sheila/Kiki36-I’m glad we met on Maya’s Mom! I forgot to mention that one in my post. Happy New Year!
RampantHeart-Oh, I forgot to mention Bumpzee! I had to take the widget off, it slowed down my loading time. I’ll have to try putting it back on :)
RWA-It makes me so happy that you read my blog from way over there in the Heart of Dixie :) Happy New Year!
Graham a/k/a/JeanLuc-You have become a loyal reader and friend and I really appreciate it!
Holly-I’m glad we met through PPP and I hope we get to know each other better in 2008!
Lanna-Ahh, Lanna. I wish so much that we could meet in person! You are such a loyal reader and a good friend. I can’t wait for you to have that baby!
Becky-You were one of the first people who friended me on Maya’s Mom! You are so sweet, hope the boys and you feel better soon!
Val-I’m glad we met through PPP! You have so many great blogs. I LOVE the design of I know EVERYTHING, by the way :)
Izzy-My dear longtime blog friend! I’m so glad you are still reading, it was great to get a comment from you! I wish more great things for you in 2008, and I hope I see you at BlogHer!
Suzette-I can’t remember how I found your blog now ;) Thanks for the kind Christmas wishes! Happy New Year!
Felicia-Thanks for stopping by my blog! Yours is so much fun to read, I wish I had your crafting skills :) Happy New Year!
Drew-Happy New Year to you, Allison, and Eva!
Amanda-Happy New Year to you and to the Other Bear! lol
Karen-Ahh Karen, my dear friend, I’m so glad we met this year! I’m looking forward to many more IM chats with you in 2008 :)
Mr. Fabulous-Brad, you big sweetie, Happy New Year! I’m moving heaven and earth if necessary to get to PostieCon next year so we can have a drink together!
Mr. “OhBabyGifts”-Now, I gotta be honest, I usually delete comments that are left under the name of a website, and not a person. But you seem to be a regular reader, and your site has such great stuff, I’m making an exception. But could you start leaving your comments using your actual name? I don’t think your Mom named you “Oh Baby Gifts”, right? lol Happy New Year!
Tina-I’m glad we met as Posties too! I like all of your blogs :) Happy New Year!
Marie-Awww, you are the sweetheart! I hope you have a wonderful 2008!
Kamagong-And to you as well, thank you.

And now, to everyone again I say, Happy New Year! I chose this graphic especially for those of you who have just become new Moms (welcome, baby Jonas McLovin Fancypants-http://www.flickr.com/photos/once_more/2146695768/in/photostream/!) and those of you who will be a new Mom in 2008 (congratulations, Sophistishe-http://www.flickr.com/photos/sophistishe/2150822254/!)

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