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Six Ways to Use Social Media

On Wednesday night I attended "Six Ways to Use Social Media", a presentation by Marijean Jaggers, Vice President and social media specialist at reputation management firm Standing Partnership. Marijean is a social media star here in Charlottesville. In addition to her work and countless community-related projects and events, she anchors ...

WordPress Plugin Recommendation: WPtouch iPhone Theme

Every now and then I will spend a WordPress Wednesday post on a plugin recommendation. Today I am featuring WPtouch iPhone Theme, a WordPress plugin that transforms your WordPress site into an iPhone/iTouch friendly theme when you are viewing your WordPress site on the iPhone or iPod Touch. With more and ...

Twitter to the Rescue

Do you use Twitter or do you make fun of others who do? One glance at my site and you know that I do. However, I would not call myself a super user or even a super fan of Twitter. It has its good points and its bad points, and I ...

Random Acts of Kindness

Full Disclosure: This post is a me post (a post about an effort/organization I am involved with). Last Sunday, our family along with several others took a behind the scenes tour of the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport this fall. The tour was for Mended Little Hearts of Charlottesville, a local chapter of ...

How To Order Your Page Navigation in WordPress

Unless you (or your WordPress developer/development team) has hard coded the page navigation on your website, you have the ability to change the order of your pages in your main and sub navigation menus through the WordPress admin. Hopefully your navigation menus were in the right order when your website ...

A Good Reason to Use The Reply All

Depending on the environment, sender, and context, mass emails might often be ignored. Typically in a professional environment, it's the opposite. At least that was my experience at Accenture, AOL, and Musictoday. Mass emails in the corporate environment are usually emails that have to go out. They often communicate policy ...

Keeping up with RSS (or Feedreader Zero)

Do you subscribe to blogs and other websites' RSS feeds? Do you have problems keeping up with your favorite feeds? Do you own a iPhone? If you answered yes to all these questions, then hopefully this article will help. If you don't know what RSS means, then check out this ...

The First Thing You Should Do After Installing WordPress

1. Log in to the WordPress admin with the admin user (it should be the only user if you just finished installing WordPress). 2. Create a new administrator user account for you. 3. Log out of the WordPress admin. 4. Log back in to the WordPress admin with the administrator account that you ...

Posterous: So Easy, Even My Family Can Use It

On occasion I will update an article that I posted on my old blog. This is one of those cases. Since my first son was born three years ago, I have struggled finding the right tool to share photos and videos with my family. Email just won't cut it for a ...