Infographic: 30 Ways to Promote Your Blog Post
I just finished teaching the unit on blogging to my three classes at BCIT. I show them how to use WordPress and talk to them about best practices. They have to create a blog and write a blog post as […]
Bloggers for Boobies
For those of you that know me well, you’ll know that Cancer has had a pretty profound affect on my life. Four years ago, I lost my mom to Colon and Liver cancer. I can honestly say that it is […]
A Web Designer’s Top 8 WordPress Plugins
Guest Post by C. Mairin Deery As a web designer and developer that works with a lot of small and non-profit/not-for-profit projects, I learned quickly that WordPress was the best platform out there. There’s a plugin for practically everything, and the […]
Northern Voice 2012 Wrap-up
This was my third year attending and presenting at Northern Voice, a local, grassroots blogging and social media conference. This year felt… different in many ways. First of all, it was held at W2, instead of UBC. And many of […]
Compfight: My New Fave WP Plugin
I just finished teaching the module on Blogging this past week to my BCIT classes. I love introducing people to WordPress. It pretty much is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Part of why I love WP so much is […]
Marketing for Hippies
On February 14, I went to an event called Valentine’s for Strangers at The Irish Heather. It was put on by the lovely and talented Jorge Amigo, whose rise to fame in this town become somewhat meteoric after he wrote […]
RSS Feeds
If you are blogging already, or you are considering starting a blog, I’d encourage you to get a blog reader account and start following some blogs. For me, my greatest inspiration for my own blog is other people’s blogs. I’ll […]
2011: The Year in Review
Well, it’s that time of the year, kids. A time to look back, reflect, and see what went right (and not-so-right) in 2011. Without further ado, here are the year’s top posts: 10. How to Use… QR Codes. Relatively new […]
WordPress Pro
I left my WordPress-hosted blog just over a year ago, for the beautifully-designed layout you see before you today (thanks, Janet Baxter!). If you aren’t familiar with WordPress, it’s a web-based blogging engine, and when you get a WordPress blog, […]
What’s Better: A Static Landing Page, or Your Blog?
The other day, Mary posted this question on my Facebook page: So, Mary, this one’s for you. I did a bunch of highly unscientific research, namely, I put Mary’s question out to my networks. What I found was, that, overwhelmingly, […]