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WordPress Ask the Expert

April 20, 2012
WordPress Ask the Expert

Last week as an experiment I had a WordPress session right before another event that I was involved with. The event right after is called ModLab and it’s the open house for one of the labs where I work on my projects. It was fun but I found that it didn’t run smoothly since...

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11th Ottawa WordPress Meet-up

April 11, 2012
11th Ottawa WordPress Meet-up

Last night we had a small “Ask the WordPress Expert” meet-up. We had five people in total. The next WordPress event(s) are posted. Contact me if you need another event to help with your projects. The ATWE format is fun as people just ask me (and each other) questions. I am booking some events...

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Yesterday’s WordPress Demonstration

April 3, 2012
Yesterday’s WordPress Demonstration

Yesterdays WordPress demonstration went very well.  We filled the room. Canadian Energy Issues Steve Aplin did a brief presentation on how his blog has impacted his interests. He mentioned that it lead him to many new connections and opportunities. He also showed a custom plugin that he added to show Ontario’s energy production and CO2...

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WordPress Meetup Ottawa

March 7, 2012
WordPress Meetup Ottawa

We had a great meetup last night. What we learned: 1) Blog oriented sites vs. Page oriented sites. Dashboard/Settings/Reading allows us to decide if a user visiting our URL sees the blog or a specific page. In the event you decide on a specific page, it’s a good practice to create a dummy page...

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What could possibly be more important than Facebook?

January 13, 2012
What could possibly be more important than Facebook?

The newer ways of communicating and staying in touch are great. But they don’t replace the previous mechanisms and channels of communication. You can spend a lot of time in Facebook and Twitter. Often all that time can go into something more constructive and meaningful. Or at least some of it. There are two...

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Social Tools and Sites

December 27, 2011

I got this list from the TED Web site. By the way TED is something worth checking out. This is a list of the sites you should know and use according to Julius Wiedemann. I wont say one should use this many tools, but its certainly a good list to poke through once in...

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Lots of new social tools for sending and receiving a message

November 30, 2011

With all the “on-line” means it’s easy to forget the best one of all. Face to face. Toastmasters is a great way to refine your presentation and speaking skills. You’ll meet a few awesome people too! Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share...

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Don’t let Social Media Experts Bamboozle you

September 30, 2011

I think these two videos and the youtube channel illustrate a very important point (below) about social media. The first video was uploaded May 8th and already has 800,000 views. I added the second video so you could see another sample from the channel. You may want to dig down into this channel to...

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Meetup is a 911 Baby?

September 9, 2011

Here’s an interesting email I got from Scott Heiferman, Meetup co-founder. I don’t write to our whole community often, but this week is special because it’s the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and many people don’t know that Meetup is a 9/11 baby. Let me tell you the Meetup story. I was living a couple miles...

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Facebook Spam

August 10, 2011
Facebook Spam

It’s one thing to be shown advertising while visiting the facebook site. But it’s another thing when they are sending spam to your inbox by email. Their behavior is very one sided. I think it’s a matter of time before people start looking at other options such as Google+ or maintaining their social profile...

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