Every Tuesday I can be found at the NTEN Watercooler dispensing helpful advice on printing, WordPress, blogging, twitter and general communications issues , but this week , I’ll be there from 2:30 – 4:00 pm providing free assistance to anyone who wants to upgrade to the latest release.

Not an NTEN member ? That’s ok – office hours are now open to the general public. I have to say, though, that you’re missing out on working with some awesome people who are all working to make the world a better place .

Some of the fun stuff to look forward to in 2.7 includes:

• Automatic one click upgrades (admin privileges required)
• One click plugin installation from WordPress.org (suspect this also requires admin privileges)
• Customized drag & drop dashboards
• Quick posts from the dashboard
• Word count on new posts

For more information on the new WordPress goodies, I highly recommend checking out the following posts:

Aaron Brazell lays out the 10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7 and an additional post roundup.

Taylor Pratt at MarketingPilgrim.com has video and a quick overview of new features.

Sean P. Aune has a timely wrapup of 20+ plugins already compatible with 2.7 – since this has slowed upgrade times in the past, this was a welcome post.

Rick Turoczy at ReadWriteWeb takes a look at how WordPress listened to their raving fans to build a better release candidate that should be required reading for all software developers.

Last but not least, don’t Robert Scoble’s interviews with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg on the future of blogs.

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