Category Archives: Musings

GiveBack on Cyber Monday

It’s coming, the biggest online shopping day of the year. It’s like Black Friday without the crowds. Money will be flying all over the interwebs as people race to get the best deals on holiday gifts. Why not GiveBack while you’re at it? It doesn’t cost you any more, and you’ll get to pick which… Continue Reading

Use Social Media to Help Achieve Your Goals

It’s easy to feel like you’ve got a lot done in a day when you spend time on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. It’s that false sense of productivity that comes from accomplishments of dubious value – like levelling up in Farmville by teaming up with friends to grow patty pan squash (11… Continue Reading

How to Effectively Communicate with Your Blog Designer

Not all bloggers are geek, but all blog designers are, and geeks are kinda like artists. We’re usually a little weird crazy slightly introvert different. Communication isn’t always our forte and mind reading? well let’s just say the internet doesn’t help us decipher voice inflections or facial expressions. Just because we’re good at what we… Continue Reading

Adding Previous and Next Post Links to a WordPress Blog

You know, a lot of WordPress themes come with previous and next post links on the post template, but not this one! One of my clients who’s using the same theme asked me this week if I could add such links to her posts. Having never done this, I decided to try it on my… Continue Reading

Dry Spells

I’ve heard it happens… that every blogger goes through a sort of dry spell from time to time. And, I’ve had some ups and downs, busy and slow times, but never anything like this. It’s not that I don’t want to blog. Or, even that I put it off. Yes, I’ve been busy, but it’s… Continue Reading

Day of Learning

Power Point is something I’ve never really HAD to use. Sure I’ve played with it once or twice, but I wouldn’t say I actually *know* Power Point. The in-laws called today to ask hubs to come show them a few things so they could edit a Power Point presentation they’re collaborating on with another lab…. Continue Reading