Does This Social Media Make My Ass Look Fat?

Geek Girl

You know those shows where professional stylists help regular people look their best, maybe you need one of those for your online persona. Don’t blog is you don’t want to blog, it will show. Don’t use Facebook if you can’t stand it. Do what works for you.

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My Interview Questions

If you need a jump start writing your bio without sounding like a jerk, try interviewing yourself.

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Is The Thesis WordPress Theme Worth It’s Hype?

The Thesis Premium Wordpress theme has made me a believer, it’s not hype at all. Count me in as one of the many who have made the leap and can’t imagine ever going back.

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Can You Build A Community Website Without Involving The Community?

If you set out to build a community website, yet fail to engage with the community, do you have any right at all to think you’re going to succeed? The Washington Post thought so.

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Why Chris Brogan Is A Trust Agent

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There’s a reason Chris Brogan is Chris Brogan. On the day his book is available he watches the karma from years of being a good guy come flowing back to him.

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Douglas Bailey Can’t Hear You

Former Boston Globe employee Douglas Bailey has decided he simply can’t take the comments allowed under his precious “journalism”.

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Twitter Traffic Multiplier

With so many people using a Twitter client, how unreliable is your analytical Twitter data?

Could it be off 100%?

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Why I Altered My WordPress Code To Disable NoFollow

This morning I changed line 148 in the /wp-includes/comment-template.php removing the rel=nofollow tag. This comes from a desire to let people who contribute thoughtful comments at my site to get some love back from me.  The decision is also partly due to the great filtering that Askimet does sniffing out blatent spam. I am a [...]

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Avatars Can Solve Some Problems

A few days ago I was looking for a good picture to use for my twitter account. Trying to pick out a picture you think doesn’t look terrible is always hard, so then I turned to the Internet to solve this problem. I had seen a member of the SEO meetup I belong to that [...]

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Losing A Customer and Screwing That Up Too

I try to talk to clients about the new reality in business. Customers have more power than ever before. You used to be able to treat your customers with disdain and it wasn’t really a big deal, because you had all the power. Now, the dynamic has switched 180 degrees. When Finnegan was born we [...]

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WordPress 2.7

I just ran through the upgrade process for WordPress from 2.6.5 to 2.7. First let me say that I find the upgrade process about as simple as I could hope for. Secondly, the new admin interface is worth the 10 minutes it takes to upgrade. I was already a big fan of WordPress’s simplicity and [...]

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