I have been keeping busy volunteering with WordPress.TV and have really enjoyed myself. It has been almost a month since I attended WordCamp North Canton and about two and a half months since WordCamps St. Louis and Dayton in March. At WordCamp North Canton I gave a presentation on WordPress.TV and I Read more…
One of the definitions of the word Acceptance is the act or state of being accepted. Or in my way of thinking, the act of being a part of a group. I was able to witness this recently during WordCamp Dayton and I must say that it brought tears to Read more…
The month of March not only brought a break in the weather but also an opportunity for me to attend two WordCamps in the span of eight days. On March 14th I attended WordCamp St. Louis and on March 20th and 21st found me at WordCamp Dayton. WordCamp St. Louis Read more…
Wait! What? ‘Tis The Season….well not in the regular sense of the word. No, what I mean is that we are back in WordCamp season after a slight slowdown for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Just after the beginning of the year WordCamps picked up again and have been Read more…
It seems much longer ago than September 2014 that Matt Mullenweg wrote about the WordPress Community and giving 5 percent. I had been volunteering as a moderator with WordPress.tv for a few months. When I read Matt’s article, I suddenly realized that I was a part of something so much Read more…
I have probably mentioned previously that I actively maintain 6 WordPress sites and help out periodically on 2 others. One of the sites I maintain is for AITP Region 18. I belong to the local Greater Wheeling Chapter and I make post on a monthly basis for chapter and Read more…
On December 11th Direct Online Marketing held a Google Wheeling workshop at the Wilson Lodge at Olgebay Park outside of Wheeling, WV. DOM was selected by Google to host the event. It looked like there was about 55 people in attendance from the Wheeling area. After a great breakfast, Justin Siebert started the Read more…
I was listening to the KitchensinkWP podcast (episode E038) a few days ago when Adam Silver mentioned 2 WordPress eBooks were available at the Hot Off the Press WordPress dot com website. I checked the website and downloaded the 2 eBooks – Writing 101 and Writing 201. While I was browsing Read more…
I just ran across something that hit me right between the eyes and I wanted to get this published while these thoughts are racing through my mind. This not really a post about WordPress versus Drupal. I was doing some research for a presentation I am putting together and ran Read more…
It has been an interesting week in my little WordPress world. I have been learning a lot about working with WordPress. I found a couple of neat plugins and did a WordPress update the hard way (well, at least to me). Manual Update I have been needing (in a bad Read more…