What the hell, Jetpack? You’re slowing me down!

With a name like Jetpack, it’s easy to think this plugin will make your WordPress site extra zippy. Or, at least, that it won’t slow things down. But HOW you use it is as big a deal as IF you use it.

Never lose another great blog post idea

Blog more. Stress less. Use *all* your creative blog post ideas with my tips, recommended (free!) tools for WordPress and my helpful blog post cheat sheet.

Waiting for the perfect idea...

Forget being perfect. Start your blog now.

One of these days it’ll all come together. You’ll quit daydreaming & start a blog. But is waiting really the right way to do it? Not exactly. Here’s what to do instead.

Better, stronger, faster posting

Better, stronger, faster blog and social media posting

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better…stronger…faster.— The Six Million Dollar Man (opening sequence) When I started this article, the original title was along the lines of “More, Better, Faster.” But being a ’70s kid, every time I worked on this post the opening sequence … Read more

And now for something completely debilitating: RSI

I was in middle school when I first encountered a precursor to the Internet: Lexis-Nexis. I was on a gifted-program field trip to a brokerage, where a terminal returned news and information on seemingly any topic. I’m sure it was limited compared to today’s Internet, and prohibitively expensive for the average person to access, but … Read more

Need better team bios? Add fun!

Business bios are a must, but the usual bio is less engaging than mind-numbing. Kernels of truth & loads of humor were keys to our great team bios page.

Stretch - Anti-RSI app for Mac

Work breaks for the single-minded self-flagellator

If you spend most of your day in front of a keyboard and monitor there’s a good chance that eventually you’ll wind up compromising your health in one or more ways. If you’re like me, the consequences might not be unmanageable until, seemingly all of a sudden, years of bad habits render you almost helpless. … Read more