Hey all, I’m overfed, overwatered, and overwined (as is only right at a kickass social media conference in the heart of wine country called EatDrinkTweet) but wanted to put up a quick note for attendees of the conference. First of all, a big thanks to Allison Markin of All She Wrote for putting together one […]
Yes, I finally got the new class schedule up at the Workshops page and on our Google calendar; we’ve a raft of old favorites and some brand new classes coming up starting March 2nd, so check it out. Some are online, some are taught in Downtown Vancouver (only registered students get to learn the Secret […]
God knows, I’m a bore on the subject, but it bears repeating: WordPress.com is the best platform I have ever seen, in pure SEO terms. This naturally pisses off a great number of webbies who make their living setting up sites on other platforms, including WordPress.org, but it is incontrovertible. You can set up a […]
This is video of my talk on Social Media 101 at, yes, Social Media Camp Victoria, which was brilliantly organized by ideazone and BWestInteractive and I’m not just saying that because they were smart enough to invite me! Although it counts, right? So here is the video, taken by BChannelNews, and constitutes, as well as […]
Image via Wikipedia and yes, I know it irritates Matt when I spell it with a lowercase P but I can’t be bothered to do funky capitalization for other people, just myself. So, anyway. There appears to be a problem with reblogging on WordPress.com; an SEO problem. Normally WP.com (there, happy Matt?) has excellent SEO, […]
Image via CrunchBase Everybody wants to know about SEO. Everybody wants to make Google their bitch. And some days it seems like EVERYONE wants to run giddily away from WordPress.com so they can access the supernatural power of the All In One SEO plugin and I’m just about fed up with destroying their pretty little […]
Ah, screw this “meaning of life” business! Why is my new blog not on Google? THAT is the question. The question we get about five times a day in the WP.com technical help forums. Let me run you through the explanation: GOOGLE SEARCH rajcairns Member Jul 2, 2010, 4:29 PM MY BLOG WILL NOT COME […]
Copied from over at the Shebeen Club blog, because it only just now occurred to me that it’s relevant here. Duh. Come one, come all to the On The Edge gastropub and enjoy a different menu and venue for only the second time in our history! Who: The Shebeen Club and Wesley Regan What: Social […]
This is a four-hour, intensive course in getting the most from Gmail, Gtalk, Google Documents, and related Google tools. You do not need a Gmail account to take this course, although you should think ahead of time about which Gmail username you’d like to practice with. You can register one account to learn with and […]
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