Archives for March 2009
The politics of .edu web strategy
I never realized how politics web sites were until I started working in higher education. Simple things like where commas should go, what should reside on the home page or how many links there ought to be on a particular… continue reading »
Just because you can…
How many times have you found yourself building a random app or something else, only to realize that there might be a faster way to do it? Or situations where you realize that, “well..there’s no program for this, but..the longer… continue reading »
Not everyone has it easy on the web
My neighbor found out that I knew how to do computer things and has been asking me to help him a lot with the new computer he bought for himself. Yesterday, I was helping him setup his internet and it… continue reading »
Making sense of personal branding
There’s a lot of chatter on the blogosphere these days about the merits and strategy behind personal branding or the idea of marketing yourself and your career as a “brand.” While there are pretty positive takeaways from much of the… continue reading »
Don’t be Foolish, use Twitter
As promised in my post about why Twitter isn’t any better than high school, here’s a gushing post about the sheer brilliance of Twitter. To the person on the outside looking in, Twitter is akin to passing notes to your… continue reading »