Why I Don’t Want to Twitter My Life Away
I once felt that Facebook was something I’d never get into because I couldn’t understand how I’d use it or what the big deal was about using it. But last summer, I joined it and surprise, surprise, I liked it. Now, I’m resisting Twitter. The best writeup on Twitter I’ve read so far is the latest by Jennifer Laycock, with her series on Twitter beginning with Part One: From Twits to Tweeple, Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too. I admit that the moment...
Read MoreMarketing Inspiration for Nonprofits
I was young the day John F. Kennedy was killed but I knew the world had changed. I remember my college house mates and I huddled in shock the day John Lennon was shot and killed. Maybe it was the influence of those two tragic events because on the very day I first saw the Internet I thought to myself, “This can help create peace (cre8pc).” Next year Cre8asiteforums will be 10 years old for me. For most everyone else, it’s younger. But for me, it’s 10 because I...
Read MoreWhy Do Search Engines Want Your Name?
Part of me would like to get hysterical over the news that a new search engine wants to index the names of every single person on the planet. The idea that anyone can locate and learn about me at the push of a button freaks me out. Wait a minute. If you’re reading this, you just did. What is the reasoning for making every person on the planet with a name available for search on the Internet? Who cares? With 7 million dollars in startup cash, it would appear there are a lot of people...
Read MoreHosting Solutions for Advanced Needs
Looking for a new ISP? My friend, Jimmy Atkinson, has some help for you, especially if you’re an advanced technical person who requires lots of extras and goodies. He’s written 14 Good Hosting Options for Hardcore Developers. Serious developers are looking for features beyond free templates and cheap domain names. They need high-end servers that are guaranteed with at least a 99.5% uptime, as well as support for various scripts and databases. Was pleased to see my host, Bluehost,...
Read MoreBehind Some Women in Tech Are Special Men
I arrived home last evening from a brief business trip that left me feeling physically drained, as if I’d just been up all night with a sick child and also ignited, as if someone just handed me the keys to a new sports car. Never did I expect the extraordinary comment my husband would say to me when he got home from work. The topic of women who work in technical fields, successful women and if it matters whether or not you’re a woman, or can just be judged on the quality of our...
Read MoreWho We Really Are, How We Connect and Why It Helps to Know
When was the last time you stopped and pondered your Being? I do this all the time, trying to figure out why I do the things I do. I’m not satisfied to coast along and dip my fingers in waves. I need to create them, ride them, fall in them, drown in them, and paddle close to the cute guy with tanned muscles. The beauty of having a brain like mine is that I wonder what everybody else is like too. So, when you use web sites or build web sites, I’m terribly curious about your...
Read MoreSites of Interest You May Not Have Met
One of the perks of my exposure to readers in the user centered design and search engine marketing industries is that I’ll receive emails from people who feel they have something I may want to see. It could be a book to review, a new website, new Internet application or new service. While I don’t get around to writing or linking out to all of them, I try to hang on to some items that you may not have seen or heard about yet. Such as: Wild Apricot – Membership and Events...
Read MoreWhat Does ‘Women in Tech’ Mean, Exactly?
Last week I breezed past a few items on the Internet that raised my curiosity about the topic of women in technology. It dawned on me that we may not all agree on what the definition is. I may not know what a tech chick really is. So I’m asking. Do you need a degree in a field that requires math or science to qualify? If you got your degree in a field that required you to do math in your head or find a cure for cancer, does this automatically make you a tech chick? If you got your degree...
Read MoreWeb Design and Marketing for The Folks You Forgot
This is one of those “Kim is thinking again” posts, just to warn you ahead of time. Sometimes it feels right to just stop for a minute and take a look around. We come up with all kinds of excuses to do that. I have a few, so let’s skip that part and continue. Talking in Full Sentences is Becoming Extinct I’ve been on a huge “save the planet” kick for years, and recently it became so noticeable that my family is afraid to chuck a plastic bag or bottle....
Read MoreIs it True? Is it Necessary? Is it Kind? How to Talk on the Internet
Everyone has their own personal code. Some have a really cool inner guidance system. We sometimes admire qualities that we may want for our own, or feel good to us when we connect with whatever it is. Sometimes even hate, anger, greed, vanity and lust are those qualities that make us feel good. They remind me of chocolate. Can’t get enough of that. We all go off kilter. I’ve done some insane things I’m not proud of. I know “bad kimmy” lives in me and I like to...
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