On Being Named a Most Influential Blogger

While out traipsing around the Northeastern corner of Washington state last week and through yesterday, in and out of cell coverage, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was included in a list of Most Influential Technical Communication Bloggers that was compiled by MindTouch. I’m back home today, so can now write about it [...]

My Blog’s One-Year Anniversary: A Retrospective & Lessons Learned

My blog is a year old. Yea! At this important milestone, it seems appropriate to take a moment and look back over this past year. I’ve learned quite a bit, have enjoyed it immensely, and am looking forward to implementing my plans for the future. I’ll give a quick background, a development timeline, highlights, negatives, [...]

Twitter Hashtags: Which Ones to Use – and When

You’ve seen them on tweets, no doubt. The hashtags. They provide a way to group and organize tweets, to bring them front and center, and to enable one to participate in a discussion with the Twitter community at large. In case you’re wondering about using some, but not sure which, I’ve compiled a list from [...]

7 Ways to Keep Up With Trends

Two facts: we have to try and keep up with all the changes in IT, and we don’t have much time, if any, to do so. What can you do? Here are some ideas. They’ve been working well for me. Hopefully they will for you as well. Blogs Bloggers are out there in the trenches: [...]