TECHNOLOGY TRANSLATED, Making IT Makes Sense
It’s sometimes hard for me to believe that we live in a world that still requires us to use as much paper as we do. Every week we deal with receipts, contracts, business cards, tax information, bills … the list goes on. The only thing worse than dealing with all that physical paper is having …Read More
Own your content, your domain name, your links….In Fact, Own Everything I have worked with a number of clients that didn’t own their domain names, hosting account (didn’t even know their credentials), many of you don’t own your own content or some of the assetts related to your online presence, and that’s a big mistake. …Read More
When I first started VSEllis.com (circa 2000) I had little idea of what I wanted to write about. Over the years VSEllis has changed many times but gradually settled into the focus it has today. While my vision of what VSEllis.com can be continues to evolve, the mission remains the same: to make web and …Read More
I love plugin discussions! No matter how many times I hear them I always pick up on some plugin that turns out to be useful to me, either on my site or on a client site. But no matter what site I’m working on there are a hand full of “utilitarian” plugins that I always …Read More
Throughout college I changed my major a few times. Ironically I landed right back where I started and wound up with a degree in Psychology. I thought it would be useless until I got into business and realized that no matter what you do in business, it’s about people. Foursquare, a location based social media …Read More
I was recently bummed when I figured out that I can only import one of my blog feeds into my Facebook notes (I also wanted to import my personal blog scottismy.name and the feed from my Flickr Photostream). Fortunately, Facebook doesn’t really dictate which of your feeds you can import into notes so the answer …Read More
Over the past year I’ve had a couple of opportunities to speak to Event Planners on the topic of using Social Networks and Social Media for events. Since event planning is something I’ve done a little of (though not by profession) and internet technologies are the forefront of my business I thought this would be …Read More
A graphical explanation of the Social Media Ecosystem depicting relationships and functionality. Most attempts to describe the social media ecosystem are two dimensional making it difficult to accurately depict.
I was privileged to be at WordCamp 2008 when John Pozadzides unleashed the Woopra Beta on the world. The eye-candy appeal of Woopra was instant, undeniable and the richness of features was impressive right out of the gate. The most notable memory from that event was watching the world map light-up and “ping” with activity …Read More
