More Than 8 Smart Ways to Shine on Social Media

More than half the world and four out of five people in the US are on social media (according to Statista), so there is a good chance that you, dear reader, are also active there. Whether you have explicit goals by participation in this sphere or not it never hurts to get better at what you are doing. I took...

Top 5+ Tips to Write a Popular Blog

Top 5 Tips to Write a Popular Blog

What I learned from taking the Writing a Compelling Blog Post course If you want to be a successful blogger you need to learn more than the art of writing. As a first step you need to define what you want to accomplish, what success means to you. Second step includes educating yourself. Starshine Roshell’s course on LinkedIn Learning is...

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...