photo credit: Glenn Batuyong The Problem: Twitter Rations I loves me some Twitter, I do. But herein lies a problem: I'm finding that ...
Author Archives: Kevin Powe
Website heresy: Make yourself obsolete
As part of the website heresy month, I wanted to talk about a heresy that's related to the workplace, and to how you help your customers. It's the principle that you should never make the job you do obsolete. I suspect (and hope) I'm not alone in thinking that making yourself obsolete - working yourself ...
An Open Question: Where’s Your Tech Pain?
A brief interruption to the Website Heresies... So, I was having a conversation with Catherine on the weekend about my Bold Plans to put together a new product for Be Awesome Online, with a tech focus. In the midst of discussing three possible plans, Catherine dropped the following question, leaden with purpose. "Have you asked people what ...
Tips On Dealing With Techies: Part Two
photo credit: donakeannadoanek3n4an Here's the second half of some tips on personality traits to keep a look out for with techies that you're considering either hiring or ...
Tips On Dealing With Techies: Part One
photo credit: donakeannadoanek3n4an The following is the fruits of seven years or so of having been involved in interviewing and hiring techies, and over ten years of ...
Twitter bonus round: extra Twitter tips
Want a few extra tips on being a good Twitter citizen? (note, I refuse to say Twitizen) and getting more out of Twitter? Here's some quick tips to mull over while you're waiting for the next batch of Five Minute Missions. How to leave a trail when replying Now, you might have picked up this good habit ...
Making WordPress painless: Automatic Upgrade
Want a stress-free way to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress? Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a wordpress plugin that deals with the hassles and finicky steps involved in upgrading from an older version of Wordpress to the latest and greatest. The video is on the longish side - 20 minutes, broken down into three videos. ...
Test-drive a Twitter client
So by now you've signed up to Twitter, followed ten people, had conversations on Twitter, and updated your bio. You might have noticed that Twitter is flowing stream of information, and the more people you follow, the faster the current. Each Tweet is a little seed-pod boat flying along, and keeping track of them can be ...
Making WordPress painless: Akismet
Here's a tip on how to spend less time managing Wordpress, through a plugin called Akismet that I talked about a little while back. Akismet is like having really good spam filtering on your email, except that it filters comments on your Wordpress blog. Comments that Akismet thinks are spam are put into a folder ...
Hi from Kevin (and pointing in the direction forward)
Heya! It's funny the things that occur to you after watching movers ferry boxes and furniture for eight hours. I've taken a few minutes to put together a video to explain where I've been over the last few weeks. But more importantly, I wanted to take a second to explain the heavy lifting that I ...