What to do with Internet Explorer 6

IE6 has taken a lot of heat (for good reason). Now the griping has gone to the next level, sites like Facebook, You Tube and Digg have either dropped browser support or warned about dropping support by suggesting new alternatives (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, even Internet Explorer 8). Development Issues Geeks like me realize why IE6…

But It’s Not Google (Bing)

BING = But It’s Not Google I have to admit, I snickered when I first read this clever little acronym for Bing!, given my penchant for all things Google. And does anyone else find the Bing TV commercials annoying? (“Moms who wear jeans to match their teen’s jeans”- ugh). However, now that the Yahoo-Microsoft search…

Getting Started with WordPress: Blog Video Training

This video tutorial focuses on the popular open source blogging platform, WordPress.  In this video, I show you the ropes of the WordPress platform: how to add and edit new posts, and some of the basic features of blogs.

Pole vaulting and your social media strategy

Whenever I am about to try something scary (like, really scary) I use the analogy with my teacher, coach, employer… “It’s like pole vaulting to me.” I do NOT understand the margin of error in pole vaulting. You are either gracefully over the pole on a safe mat, or your face is ground into the…