Entries for the ‘General’ Category

Building a Community: Starting a Blog Before Twitter or Facebook

Lately I’ve been in meetings with clients regarding social media and marketing and I’m asked the same questions each time, “Where should I start with Social Media? Is Twitter right for me? or should I use Facebook?“ My answer is always the same. Twitter and Facebook are great tools to engage with your users, but [...]

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20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

Many people today have a hard time understanding all of the technical jargon that goes on with the web. This is understandable since 25 years ago the world wide web was created and new technologies arise almost everyday. Trying to stay on top of the latest trends and techno-speak is hard, even for professionals in [...]

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Website Update: New Menus and Navigation

This is one of a regular series of posts on website updates and maintenance. This week I worked on the menus and page navigation. New Menu Location: I’m trying to make the blog posts the ‘focus’ of my website. While viewing the website the other day I noticed that the main menu was too close [...]

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Why I Blog

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of how-to articles for new bloggers and almost all of the topics are the same: “Why should you blog?” So instead of keeping my answer to myself on why I blog, I thought I would share it with you in a blog post (how meta huh?). Why I started [...]

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Building a Better Tool for Google Buzz

I just submitted a ticket to the creator of Buzz Comments for WordPress regarding a bug, and I also let him know that I would love to help him out financially with the plug-in to try and get the more great tools for Google Buzz. If you use Google Buzz and/or WordPress I would love [...]

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Decoration of Dreams Part Deux: Goals for 2011

This month marks my second year of blogging and every year I want to set out at least 10 achievable goals for the upcoming year: to stay focused and continue to push myself as a writer. My Goals For 2011: Receive an average of 75 unique daily visits in Google Analytics Earn 150 subscribers to my RSS feed [...]

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How To: Replicate Every Feature of Twitter with Google Buzz and More

To keep this post simple and precise I will just provide you with a data table with 3 columns: List of features Where to find it with Twitter Where to find it for Google Buzz *Just a side note, but you can post everything to Google Buzz and have it feed into Twitter, including hash [...]

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Looking To Be A Guest Writer On Another Blog

As of this month I’ve been blogging for a year and I’ve accomplished many goals. Now before I can call my first year of blogging a true success I have one last goal, and that is to be a guest writer on another blog. I would love to write about technology, web, design, organizational methods or my [...]

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My Content Management System Software Of Choice

I have had many people and clients ask me what content management system (CMS) that I prefer to use and I thought I would share the answer with everyone and the reasons for my choice. My answer is: WordPress Why I chose WordPress: I chose WordPress because over the years I have used many content [...]

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Added Two New Sections: Most Popular Posts & Places That This Post Has Been Mentioned

Continuing with my goal to make this website easier to use and I have added two new sections this weekend. The first section is located on the sidebar called Popular Posts. This section will show the top 5 popular posts from the entire site based on visits and comments. The second section I have added is [...]

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