The other day during my blogging class, I taught my students about links. Seems like a simple concept right? If you think so then you may not be aware of the different types of links available and when to use them. A quick intro to HTML HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is the language…
RSS is an acronym that gets thrown around a lot but not everyone understands it. Despite it’s meaning, Really Simple Syndication, it isn’t as simple as I’d like it to be. There are different standards, each browser works with RSS differently and sometimes you can do some things with RSS, but you can’t do things…
As a continuation of the previous Blogging Tips post, here is part two: Comment, Share & Like When you read blogposts, take a few seconds to leave a comment and maybe even share that blogpost in Twitter or Facebook or Google+. Leaving comments shows interest for the topic and helps you develop a relationship with…
I’m absolutely humbled by the response to the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. I was going to tell you a story about my first entrepreneur venture when I was 6 or 7, continuing on yesterday’s post. Instead I want to highlight The Challenge while it’s early on. I’ll tell you how I made my first “dollar”…
I have recently started a meetup group. The primary purpose of Smart and Social is to share knowledge via small groups and medium to large sized webinars and seminars. I’ll be bringing in experts to provide valuable insights, and I will be running educational series workshops. We’re starting off with small groups, and so far…
Optimizing your website is important; Google gives preference to faster websites, here are two simple ways to check on and improve upon the speed of your website for ultimate performance and decreased loading times.
Being an entrepreneur is tough. I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs all my life and I never realized how tough it is until a few years ago. Nobody teaches you this stuff, and it really is up to you to figure things out most of the time. I thought I would put together a list of resources…
This was a video I shot for one of my pet projects, Orange County Reviews and some blogposts I’ve shared over there. There are more coming but I’ve been working on this site and other client work. Chronic Tacos in Irvine is great and I highly recommend you stop by. I have a few more…
If you weren’t at SMMOC, you missed out. It’s been a while since I’ve been to SMMOC, and probably it’s been a while since you’ve been to SMMOC because it’s been dark for 3 out of the 5 past weeks. Now that summer is here, you better make time in Saturday mornings to come and…
Some tweets and commentary from Wordcamp Orange County I got to attend Wordcamp Orange County, and here are some of the highlights in forms of tweets and commentary. I tried to do this earlier this rmorning but the wifi at #wcoc wasn’t working. Ross Teasley – @RossTeasley At #wcoc @notagrouch is plugged in, literally n…
This reminded me to tell you, whatever project you’re thinking about, or whatever business you want to start. What are you waiting for? My friend Amy from Counterintuity tweeted this out earlier and that was the reminder. No matter how long you wait, you will be embarrassed by your first version. @ericries #growco #leanstartup —…
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