A slide deck created for “speed marketing” consultations at the Vermont Travel Industry Conference held in Killington, VT on April 12-13, 2012. Highlighting cool and interesting ways tourism-related businesses can stick out in the social media sea using the places you probably already are present, like Facebook and Twitter. And also how you can be [...]
4 cool things you can do with Pinterest
Can you stand another article about Pinterest? Yes, its shiny and new and another time diversion to ogle pretty pictures of neat stuff on any given topic. Similar to how I used to spend eons glued to Twitter and Facebook (I’ve learned to limit myself in those arenas) (okay, now I’m lying,) I can easily [...]
Simple SEO tips for designers (and everyone else)
Yesterday I attended an SEO 101 class, Designing with Search Engines in Mind presented by the local Vermont chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists.) The A-list panel doling out SEO tips and tricks included web teams from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Gardeners Supply, and Union Street Media, a local web design firm. The [...]
How to: Upgrade MySQL for WordPress 3.2 updates with MediaTemple
Was your WordPress website created prior to September 2010? There’s a chance your host service set the default to PHP 4. WordPress 3.2 is now available for updating, but requires PHP5 and MySQL 5 databases for the update to work. After scratching my noggin for a few hours reading threads and wikis (I’m a DIY [...]
What is a Tweetup?
I remember my first Tweetup. A little over two years ago on the Lake Champlain waterfront patio at Breakwaters, here in Burlington, VT. I had just moved to Vermont from Seattle, and was low on the local friends count. Twitter seemed to be catching on in the area, so why not hang out with like-minded [...]
