Many people use the email address given to them by their employer or ISP, but this can cause problems. If you change jobs or ISP’s then your email address will no longer work and friends, family and business contacts will no longer be able to get in touch with you. Chris Brogan today wrote a [...]
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SEO Optimization
January 31st, 2008
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In listening to a talk that Will Pate of Command N gave at nextMedia about Monetizing Media where he mentions blogging in relation to SEO rankings, it got me thinking: Does a website owner need to worry about SEO optimization or is it better to keep your site current and relevant with a blog? As [...]
How to list job requirements
January 16th, 2008
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As I am currently in the market for new work, I spend countless hours a day looking through job postings on recruitment sites and of course craigslist. So often it seems that companies list in the skills required section a collection of languages and software that would indicate there are 20 different projects which you [...]
How to recognize a good programmer
January 11th, 2008
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Slashdot posted a link to a great article on how to recognize a good programmer. Anybody who is looking to hire programmers or technical people should read this article. “It’s not as easy as it sounds. CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don’t always have the ‘official’ experience to demonstrate [...]
WordPress vs Custom CMS
December 18th, 2007
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Zdnet wrote a good article describing why businesses should use WordPress vs building their own solutions. With WordPress you get all the tools already built in for managing the content and there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. If your developers leave then it’s an open source system which allows you to more easily hire [...]
