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Feeling the love

“What a long strange trip it’s been”, sang The Grateful Dead. I can’t agree more. It started back in September. I got the idea to host a WordCamp since nobody else in Las Vegas had done it yet. My initial thought was that once I announced it, others would come to be clamoring for the…

What drives your WordPress blog

Today James asked me if I could write a post about what my current favorite WordPress plugins are because he’s redoing his blog and knows that I manage several WordPress installs. So here ya go, James. A list of my current “must have” WordPress plugins, in no particular order: Akismet – If you don’t want to be…

Moving day at work

It’s been about a year and a half since I had an office at work. When I was first moved out of my office I truthfully said that it didn’t bother me. Working in a cube (or the crazy shaped desks we have at the office) hasn’t really bothered my at all.They are a little…

The end of week one

This has been quite a week. Prior to this week it had probably been more than a year since I had needed to stay late at work. So far this week I’m 5 for 5 on staying late. Don’t get me wrong, this is by no means a complaint. To be quite honest, even though…

A New Challenge

Last week I received a promotion at work and am now the Director of Online Marketing. Sounds pretty fancy, huh? So, what does it mean? For starters it means that I have probably just given up my nights and weekends for the next 4-8 weeks while I dive in and get my hands around everything I have…

Building return site visitors

It’s been a while since I wrote about any good WordPress tools. I’ve recently found some very worthy plugins that deserve writing about. The plugin I’m going to talk about today is called Subscribe to Comments. At the time of this writing, Subscribe to Comments is currently on version 2.1 and is compatible with WordPress…