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Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
WordPress 3 & Parent-Child Themes from WordCamp Vancouver
If you missed WordCamp Vancouver and wanted more than the slides I posted previously, now you can watch Catherine Winters & I talk about WordPress 3.0 just a short while before it came out: As Catherine & I talked about, … Continue reading
Just in case you think I install every plugin on the planet here, I don’t. In fact I did a pretty hard cull of plugins tonight. My account has been hitting my allocations on DreamHost pretty hard of late and … Continue reading
Pre-release Chapter of Using WordPress: Chapter 7-All About Themes
Just in time for WordCamp Vancouver have a chapter of Using WordPress for you to download and read. Chapter 7: All About Themes Chapter 7 covers all the basics of WordPress themes and, yes, it does include WordPress 3. I … Continue reading
Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People) Next Week: Do you have a domain?
Next Saturday (May 29th) I get to teach one of my favourite classes: Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People). Although it’s one of my favourite classes to teach, it’s also the one that poses logistical problems to teach it … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Conferences & Speaking, Internet Life, Teaching, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0, WordPress
Tagged Technology, UBC, WordPress class
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My CBC Segment on Wireless Secuirty
Last week I was on the local CBC news talking about wireless security. I’ve had this bee in my bonnet for a bit (Hacking for good should be taught and encouraged – Stuff I Found in a Packet Sniff Over … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Life, Technology, Tips and Tricks
Tagged CBC, security, Technology, Theresa Lalonde, wifi security, wireless secuirty
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Holy crap, I haven’t posted in a week! Do I suck as a blogger?
I guess I’ve been busy lately. Haven’t been posting (or tweeting) much, at least publicly. So does this mean that I suck as a blogger? One of the most common questions I’m asked when I’m talking about or teaching blogging … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Blogging 101, Books, Create Your Own Blog, Tips and Tricks, Using WordPress
Tagged Writing
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Dispelling Blogging Myths: Blogging Will Get Me Fired!
Getting fired for blogging doesn’t get as much attention as it did in 2004-2005. Back then, the media was a buzz about people getting fired because they were blogging, when, in truth, very few people were actually fired for blogging. … Continue reading
Podcasting 101–The 2010 edition
This morning I had the wonderful privilege to be on Donna Maria’s awesome Indie Business Radio show and when we got to talking about podcasting I said that it was about time I wrote an updated Podcasting 101 post and … Continue reading
My teachers were right, outlines help, but maybe not how I was taught
Remember those days in high school when you were learning how to write term papers? My very well-meaning teachers tried to get us to use notecards and create outlines, anything to help us write better organized papers with the correct … Continue reading
Lately on Techplanations: Headset Contest, Gifts for Geeks, Basic computer fixes, and Telelympics Part 1
Things have been pretty active over on my Vancouver Observer column, Techplanations. WIth the holidays coming up I had to cover gift ideas for geeks: Getting Great Gifts for Geeks and since we all need to stop talking on our … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cool tools, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Internet Life, News and Info, Social Media, Technology, Techplanations, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0
Tagged online news, Social Media, tech support, tech tips, Technology, technology columns, Techplanations, Vancouver Observer, Web 2.0
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Are you ready to keep working during the Olympics in Vancouver?
From February 12-28 all of Vancouver is ceding our city over to the rest of the world for the Winter Olympics. Beyond all the discussions about money spent and the myriad issues surrounding the Games, they are coming and they … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Life, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0
Tagged Technology, Techplanations, Telecommuting, Vancouver 2010, Vancouver Observer, Web 2.0
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