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The surrealism wears off
The surrealism wears off over time. For anyone with medical issues that has taken away their freedom of movement, it must seem surreal. It certainly does for me. I was diagnosed with migraines in 2005, and over time I've lost ever more freedom of movement. Those...
What you need for a modern website
What you need for a modern website -- that is, in 2020 -- can be overwhelming when you realize what's involved. This upcoming series of three articles tells you what you need for a modern website in a way you can digest easily. This article gives you a high-end...
Creating a website
Creating a website remains an important requirement for businesses even in 2020. If you’re not sure about creating a website, consider this: Creating a website gives your business legitimacy. When you show that you’ve put the time and effort into a website, it shows...
Drinking from the firehose
Drinking from the firehose was the perfect meme that described last week for me. Social media and business consulting companies decided that last week was the time to share a bunch of free stuff. Those companies included: Agorapulse with their Social Success Summit...
Money and health
Money and health may evoke images of bills you have to pay. Or financial hardships. Or stories like A Christmas Carol. Being a small kid, I've always been suspicious of power. I noticed early on that people who were considered rich behaved differently than people in...
The new Facebook interface
The new Facebook interface is now available in beta. This new interface is for the website, not for the mobile site. The Facebook mobile app interface hasn't changed, but Facebook is finally updating its website to modern standards. Facebook is inviting all its users...
Off-Facebook Activity
Off-Facebook Activity has been in the news recently. This new feature lets you see what apps and websites share information with Facebook. That data helps Facebook put tailored ads in your news feed, for better or for worse. If you missed those news stories, then...
Installing business strategies
Installing business strategies isn't the way you may think of building your business. Sports teams use the term "installation" when they're implementing a game plan. To me, implementing business strategies feels like installing operating system updates. That is, the...
Finding trends to write about
Finding trends to write about is vital to getting more eyeballs to your blog. And I've been blogging wrong. So says the blogging expert, Mike Allton of The Blogging Brute. I'm a Bad Blogger I don't research trends and write about them. Instead, I write about what I...
Managing Facebook Likes
Managing Facebook likes isn't something I thought of during my annual New Year's editing. That editing included deleting old e-mail messages, shredding papers I no longer needed for tax purposes, and updating my social media cover photos. However, at the end of last...
