A talk about me, my family and the things we love to do
Image via Wikipedia Baseball The other night there was a program on PBS talking about some of baseball’s history. The show focused on the early 1900′s through the 1920′s. Prior to the 20′s, almost all the attendees at baseball games were men. Image by The Rocketeer via Flickr Radio This all changed on August 5th, [...]
As the flood waters of change roll into the mid-west from the coasts – the effects are also rolling in. We’ve been hearing the “rumblings” of niche and local advertising opportunities increasing as web analytics and target marketing become more sophisticated – and here is one really good example. The lightning bolt I logged into [...]
Over the 10+ years I have been in IT, it probably comes up once every 2 years. Whatever thing we’re building is not only gonna fix our current problem – but it’s gonna fix everyone’s problem. When I caught the computerworld UK post called “Run IT as a business — why that’s a train wreck [...]
This is a very in depth post on how mikeindustires.com was able to grab a domain at expiration time: I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance [...]
We ran across this tool for real time analytics about a week ago called “chartbeat” – which is just plain cool. I learned of it while enjoying the podcast “This Week in Startups” by Jason Calacanis and crew. #twist This offers a real time (within seconds) look at the visitors to our site. Some of [...]
Looking to post jobs on your WordPress site? How about a plugin? WPCareers The plugin allows you to build an online jobs/resume website, where the applicants will be able to search, update, add/remove, and add or edit their resumes/profiles. Maybe I will try it out and post jobs for people who I know are hiring. [...]
I’m not sure I should share this link…but I guess since they already shared it at ProBlogger, I can too. While SEO is something that is well worth while focusing upon right from the start of your blog – I’ve found that it becomes particularly important once your blog is at least a few months [...]
Image by xiaming via Flickr This is from a Mashable post entitled “10 Musts for Marketing to Women on Facebook“, but it just as relevant outside of facebook too. Here are my top 3: 1. Quality Counts Tom’s Comments: This is top #1 no matter what. People was and need quality, and as I have [...]
From a post I found over at SimsBlog with some really good thoughts: …is how journalists “spent nearly a century denying responsibility and involvement in business decisions”. … The result of this siloed newsroom is that a large chunk of the organization has no real understanding of how the business works. That is a very [...]
There is so much buzz about free and paywalls and hybrid of the two. There is a nice article on Logic+Emotion called “The 4 Kinds of Free“: This is a new kind of currency that we’re seeing being used and what fuels it is the accessibility we have to each others through more of an [...]