I became a member of the Board of Minnesota Offroad Cyclists (MORC) back in January. At a meeting last weekend, a couple of board members who are avid mountain bikers told…
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I’m here in flood-ravaged Duluth this week for the League of Minnesota Cities annual conference. I’m teaming up with Ted Davis, Davis Communications, and Scott Neal, Edina City Manager,…
I attended the 2011 MN Blogger Conference Saturday at Allina Commons (administrative headquarters for Allina Hospitals and Clinics) in the Midtown Exchange in Minneapolis. Everything about the conference…
Eli Pariser’s new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You and his TED Talk video are getting a lot of attention this week. As web companies…
Time for a little shameless self-promotion. I’m nearing the end of teaching my first online course, WordPress for Noobs. It’s gone well so I’m offering it again, starting March 14.…
Thursday night I was part of a social networking panel at St. Kate’s that presented to the Seasoned Professionals special interest group for the Minnesota Women in Marketing and…
My online course, WordPress for Noobs, begins this week. Get it through Your Thick Skull. (See my Nov. blog post for background.)
In late October, I hosted (with a little help from my friends, Tracy Davis and Sean Hayford O’Leary,) two WordPress Q&A webinars for Northfield area WordPress users. A few days later, I attended my first Minneapolis-St. Paul WordPress User Group meeting. And two weekends ago, I presented two sessions at WordCamp MSP in Richfield.
All of which served to convince me that A) the popularity of WordPress continues to grow; and B) the demand for help in using it continues to grow.
So I decided to create an online course called WordPress for Noobs, and have it be the first course delivered by my new interactive learning platform:
I went to buy a USB headset at the Dundas Radio Shack store this morning. I told the clerk (Alex S?) that I wanted to try a behind-the-ear headset since…