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. Oh yes, some people were fired for blogging, that much is true. I’m sure many of the cases had little to do with the blogging parts as it did with something else going on. However the “fired for blogging” thing did do one good thing, it forced companies to realize [...]
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Yeah, I’m a well known Facebook curmudgeon and haven’t had ads here on the site for years now, but yesterday that changed.
Sigh.
I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong, or at least when I need to wise up to reality. I know Facebook is huge and lots of people make that the centre of their online universe. I’m just not one of those people. Yes, I’m on Facebook and have a respectable number of Facebook friends, but Facebook just doesn’t provide much for me that I can’t get elsewhere.
Except for events.
And [...]
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by Tris Hussey on January 2, 2010 · 21 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Books, Business blogs, Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress
Even though it’s been the holiday season, work on Using WordPress hasn’t slowed down only a wee bit. Several of the initial chapters are now in the loving hands of my editors and I’m proceeding full steam ahead. Since crowd sourcing works pretty darn well for getting feedback, commentary, and information, I’m looking for a bit of help with the next chapter in the book: WordPress Plugins.
Us WordPress.org/DIY install users know that there are thousands of WP plugins out there to try. Lots of plugins do the same thing and [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 18, 2009 · 7 comments
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This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking it, I’m just using it. Oh and writing about it, of course.
For my money, there are two great features that make this a great update. The first is the new built-in image editor. No, you [...]
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The big topic at the moment, even as evidenced even by Fever/Chill Pill–
Is Mike Arrington’s post on the demise of hand crafted content—The End Of Hand Crafted Content—then followed by several sage responses:
Doc Searls Weblog · The Revolution Will Not Be Intermediated
Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried
The supersizing of content; or how we are turning the Web into an obese mess
Which makes me think about the early days of professional blogging. When people decried what I was doing, that professional blogging would [...]
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Way, way back in 2005 I started live blogging at conferences. Blog Business Summit was the first a) blogging related conference I attended and b) the first conference I live blogged. From that point on I got to be pretty well known as a live blogger. It even got me into conferences and my travel expenses paid so I could live blog and cover a conference for companies. I think, in fact, I got pretty damn good at live blogging. I had my own style as well, a mix of [...]
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We talk about giving back to the (social media) community as one of the most important parts of the whole ecosystem, if people don’t give back then things start coming apart at the seams. I’m not talking about charitable giving here either, this is also essential and something that the fortunate should do, but the giving back more in the work or friends sense. How do you try to even the balance in your life?
Think about all the answers in community-powered forums (the WordPress forums come to mind immediately), Twitter, [...]
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I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “fake it til you make it”, meaning that if you’re not happy pretend you are happy until you feel that way…or a myriad other examples. Sometimes, you know, writing is like that. I’ve been stumped on what to write about here for a couple days.
Sure, there has been a lot of news going on. I could have talked about the fake Windows Black Screen of Death fiasco, or Chrome for Mac Beta, or … just about anything. However I feel like I owe you, [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 1, 2009 · 2 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Business blogs, Create Your Own Blog, Lifestreaming, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0
Yes, I’ve been posting more here lately. It seems that my blogging has run in fits and starts of late. Part of the issue, I think, has been the diversity of places I could publish to, coupled with lots of projects on the go I didn’t publish enough. So for the past few week I’ve been publishing more and the traffic results are clear:
It doesn’t matter what the actual numbers are, because it’s a matter of scale. It’s the same thing I told the bloggers at b5media and teach my [...]
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by Tris Hussey on November 29, 2009 · 6 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Featured, Internet Life, Social Media, Teaching, Web 2.0, WordPress
Yes, you read that correctly, WordPress isn’t the best CMS out there. WordPress is, however, the CMS I like best. My BCIT class on Thursday afternoons is one of those great groups of students that everyone should have the opportunity to teach. They challenge me constantly. No, not in a disrespectful way, in an intelligent way. They challenge me to challenge myself and learn more so I can teach them more (hence all my experimentation with Subversion).
This week, for example, I was working through the WordPress theme structure with a [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
