Breath

Course summary: Self-Care During Stressful Times

I am fortunate enough that through my work I have access to numerous online courses. These turbulent times felt like a good opportunity to take one titled “Self-Care During Stressful Times.” It consists of 8 videos that altogether took 35 minutes. The videos are taken from these five courses: “How to Manage Feeling Overwhelmed“, “Mindfulness Practices“, “Happiness Tips“, “Managing Stress for Positive...

Analyst at Work

Multi-talented knowledge worker looking for opportunities

I am happy to announce that I have availability for projects or part time work. What kind of work you can trust me with? I enjoyed being a technical analyst for the last 13 years and looking for growing even more in this field.  My Masters in Library and Information Science degree is joined with a keen interest and eye in organizing any kind of information.  I...

Differentiate and spark your creativity - Roy Gattinella

Differentiate and spark your creativity – Roy Gattinella

I went to Roy Gattinella‘s session at the North Bay Designers hoping to get my creativity sparked (as the title of the event was “Spark your creativity”) and got much more out of it. Roy was hilarious: we, about 40 of us, laughed through most of his session. His background and ratings are impressive. The extra, unexpected lesson of the meetup was...

WP Inject

Where/how to get images for your (WordPress) website?

If you have budget to purchase quality images for your website I recommend checking any number of sites offering “royalty free images”. Otherwise here are my recommendations where/how to get them legally. No matter where you get the image I strongly encourage you to contribute to the artist/company/people who created and shared them. Most of the services listed below has...

WordPress Links

WordPress links (January 2015)

Howtos, tips, tutorials, guides from the world of WordPress 10 WordPress Snippets For Theme Customizations (hongkiat) 11 simple tips to boost WordPress security (torque) A Quick (and in-Depth) Guide to WordPress Hooks (wpmudev) Change Sortable Columns In WordPress (paulund) Check To See if a WordPress Post Has a Term (tommcfarlin) Client-Friendly WordPress With Page Builders and Advanced Custom Fields (wimp)...

Facebook

What to do now that Facebook pages’ RSS feeds are gone?

As you may have noticed Facebook page’s RSS/XML feed stopped working (see official announcement)  on January 28. If you are like me you had lots of RSS feeds organized into folders in a feedreader. Going through my list every morning was an effective way of learning what’s new on the Facebook pages of the organizations I am interested in. Using this...

WordPress Links

WordPress links (November 2014)

News, tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful 13 Surprising WordPress Statistics (torquemag) 20 Helpful Google Chrome Extensions for WordPress Bloggers (wpbeginner) 22 Brilliant Videos For Mastering WordPress (wpmudev) 50 Filters of WordPress: An Introduction to Filters (tutsplus) Adding Custom Widgets to the WordPress Admin Dashboard (wpmudev) Altering WordPress Admin Menus (markwilkinson)...

WordPress Links

WordPress links (September & October 2014)

News, tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful Customizing WordPress Archives For Categories, Tags And Other Taxonomies (smashingmagazine) Hide WordPress Usernames to Improve WordPress Security (wpwhitesecurity) Cool WordPress Snippets (webdesignblog) 14 Completely Free CDN Solutions for WordPress Users (wpcentury) 9 Most Useful .htaccess Tricks for WordPress (wpbeginner) How to Notify Users When...

Lightning Talks: Blogger Basics (Bey, Haden, Hockley)

Talking to Robots by Josepha Hayden Official description: The most important first step to writing for the web is understanding that you will forever be writing to dual audiences. Join Josepha for a look at what to do, and not do, when it comes to optimizing your content for search engines. My notes: Writing for dual audiences Five in five...

Finding and Maintaining Your Blog’s Voice by Christine Harkin

Notes from  Christine Harkin‘s talk at WordCamp SF 2014 on “Finding and Maintaining Your Blog’s Voice” Official description: Finding your blog’s voice isn’t as simple being honest, honoring the audience’s interests, and crafting the best tone and structure for a story; except that maybe it is. Trace the evolution of my blogging voice through personal and professional blogs, group blogs,...