Social Media News, WordPress Info and Opinion from Tris Hussey author of Create Your Own Blog, Using WordPress and Teach Yourself Foursquare
Sure, by day I’m a mild-mannered Community Coordinator for Simply.ca, but on certain weekends I turn into … A teacher. Actually, you all know that I live for teaching and helping people, so in all honesty I’m really a teacher all the time. In this particular case, however, I’m talking about my Introduction to Audio [...]
You know I’ve always dug the community thing. Since May I’ve been doing some freelance work, taught some classes, and started on the second edition of Create Your Own Blog, all fun things but I still wanted a full time gig. Freelancing might be fun and have a lot of freedom and flexibility, however it [...]
Next week the 2011–2012 school year kicks off in earnest. On the Future Shop Tech blog (where I contribute posts), we’ve had the raft of Back to School 101 posts to help folks gear up (literally and figuratively ) for school, but in the meantime I’ve been keeping an eye on trends overall and I [...]
Over the past (oy) year I’ve talked about my “WordPress video project” that I was working on. The idea was simple, make screencast videos of everything you need to use WordPress in about 20 videos. The problem came that finishing Using WordPress and Sam’s Teach Yourself Foursquare in 10 Minutes kept pushing the videos to [...]
This week Google enabled Google+ users to start sharing their circles with other users. Many folks, like me, who were included in circles by folks like Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk, and Jason Calacanis saw their follower numbers jump. Hugely. Many users, like Fraser Smith found that their number of followers on Google+ eclipsed their number [...]
I was sitting downtown using a spare desk in the Simply.ca business services office when I found out. I was working on my MacBook Pro, writing and working on a seminar for how to back up your Mac when the first tweet came through on HootSuite. Steve Jobs was dead. And it hit me hard. [...]
Zite for iPad—born in Vancouver through research at UBC and now owned by CNN—is one of those “best of breed” apps that makes keeping up with the news nearly painless. Except if you have lots of people using your iPad. So while you might be interested in all things Mac your spouse might what to [...]
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