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Month: June 2008

  • How to *really* know your blog is successful (or not)

    Hey! How’ya doin’!There are many ways to define your blo­g’s suc­cess; Hits, Links, Track­backs, Com­ments, PageR­ank, Sub­scribers, etc. These are all good indic­at­ors of activ­ity. Your blog is busy. You’re get­ting a lot of pageviews. People are hit­ting and read­ing and crawl­ing the pages and posts of your blog. All is good, accord­ing to the…

  • Tweaking your FeedBurner / FeedSmith plugin to support WordPress 2.5+ tag feeds (easy!)

    photo cred­it: mag­bag Sorry for the über tech in this post, but I thought this was a simple fix that any­one run­ning a Word­Press 2.5+ blog could do if they wanted to enable ‘Tag Feeds’. Before I get into the how, let’s explore the why briefly. Some back­ground: Feed­burn­er is the ser­vice I (and many many…

  • How has the Logitech G15 (v2) fared after 6 months?

    You may remem­ber that I went through a rather inter­est­ing guar­an­tee replace­ment with Logit­ech over the wear­ing paint on my ori­gin­al G15 key­board. The short ver­sion is that they hap­pily replaced it with a new, Ver­sion 2 G15. I thought I’d take a moment and update my thoughts about it. I miss the three-key wide lay­out of…

  • Key Messages from the Gerry McGovern Masterclass, Ottawa, May 5–6, 2008

    photo cred­it: dandy_fsj To wrap up this inter­view series with Krista Vie­ira, we’re fea­tur­ing the Key Mes­sages gen­er­ated by con­fer­ence attendees. If you missed the inter­view series read these: Gerry McGov­ern Mas­ter­class — essen­tial con­tent for con­tent man­agers (part one) Gerry McGov­ern Mas­ter­class — essen­tial con­tent for con­tent man­agers (part two) Gerry McGov­ern Mas­ter­class — essen­tial con­tent for…

  • How to install Firefox 3 without borking your Firefox 2 installation (it’s easy!)

    In my work I need to view web­sites as my audi­ences do. Which means I need to have vari­ous browsers and con­fig­ur­a­tions avail­able to me. This is a Win­dows-only How-to, as my work envir­on­ment is not mine to design. Yes­ter­day Moz­illa released Fire­fox 3 after a robust pub­lic beta peri­od. On my pro­duc­tion machine, I…

  • Gerry McGovern Masterclass — essential content for content managers (part three)

    photo cred­it: iDream_in_Infrared Part three: The good, the bad, and the content developer. This is the third part of an inter­view with Krista Vie­ira, my co-work­er and recent attendee of Gerry McGov­ern’s Mas­ter­class for web con­tent pro­fes­sion­als. Part one focuses on know­ing your audi­ence. Part two is about keywords, care­words and focus. In this part,…

  • Gerry McGovern Masterclass — essential content for content managers (part two)

    photo cred­it: Thomas Hawk Part Two: Words, Carewords, and Focus This is the second part of an inter­view with Krista Vie­ira, my co-work­er and recent attendee of Gerry McGov­ern’s Mas­ter­class for web con­tent pro­fes­sion­als. Part one focused on know­ing your audi­ence (good advice for any com­mu­nic­at­or). In this part, Krista talks about care­words and focus­ing on…

  • Gerry McGovern Masterclass — essential content for content managers (part one)

    photo cred­it: Dav­id Ascher Recently a col­league atten­ded the Gerry McGov­ern Mas­ter­class on web­site con­tent management. For those of you not schooled in the eso­ter­ic yet not-so-obscure art of web­site con­tent man­age­ment, Gerry McGov­ern is an industry-lead­ing Guru. People tend to listen to what he has to say, even if they can­’t con­vince their organ­iz­a­tions…

  • Content Management Solutions: Upcoming series on Gerry McGovern’s web writing masterclass

    photo cred­it: visu­alpan­ic *** Update *** Oversite on my part, here’s some links to the art­icles in the series directly: Part One Part Two Part Three Key Mes­sages This brief post is just to let you know that I’ll be tak­ing a road less trav­elled this week by intro­du­cing an inter­view series with a cool…

  • How to spice up your online identity with Gravatars

    If you’ve ever read a post on a blog and noticed a small photo or image asso­ci­ated with each author, or asso­ci­ated with authors of com­ments, then you’ve seen an ‘avatar’. A few years ago, Gravatar launched as a way to allow people to store an avatar in a single loc­a­tion, and it would auto­mat­ic­ally…

  • More cool sites from the Blogging Pack

    photo cred­it: Brett L. It’s been a busy week, but I’ve always made time to vis­it some sites (and Digg/Stumble posts) with­in the Blog­ging Pack, which I describe in pre­vi­ous post. Only two sites pro­filed today…but they’re chock full of bloggy-good­ness. Enjoy. Remark­ab­log­ger - Remark­able Blog Con­sult­ing and Coach­ing. An inter­est­ing fol­low on Twit­ter, and even…

  • How to find new things to read online…use the Human Filter!

    photo cred­it: pho­to­pia / HiMY SYeD I’m an inform­a­tion junkie. I also share a lot of what I find with cowork­ers, friends, etc. So when people ask me where I dig this stuff up I often respond “just found while surf­ing” or “in my RSS feed”. I usu­ally only pass on what I think is good.…