Research Shows the Internet May be Getting Safer for Kids
The research, a December, 2011 Study by the University of New Hampshire, says that Unwanted Online Sexual Exposures Decline for Youth, New UNH Research Finds. Some of the important bits: The study found that the percentage of youth receiving unwanted online sexual requests declined from 13 percent in 2005 to 9 percent in 2010. Youth ...
Complex Problems Require Simple Solutions
I’ve been working with a client on a particularly sticky web / marketing problem that involves many books and different types of users that will be looking for and accessing information in different ways for different purposes. It’s definitely not a typical site with typical solutions. But, it’s very similar to ones I’ve worked on ...
Another Internet Safety for Kids Presentation Success
Internet safety for kids is becoming more and more important and the technology gets better and our kids get older. One important thing I’ve discovered lately is that since most parents didn’t grow up in the interent world, they’re a bit out of touch with how quickly kids learn and figure things out online. The ...
Awesome Keeper Hole!
After a recent Trip to Moab, we found an awesome Keeper hole! If you were 2 inches tall, you would NOT want to get in this one!! From Mill Creek… Awesome Keeper Hole!
Evergreen, CO Population and Social Media Potential
I’ve recently been asked by several local business to help them increase web and social media traffic for their businesses. It’s been really fun to help them and see the gains they’ve realized in terms of web traffic and sales. I’ve helped many businesses grow with additional marketing efforts over the last 15+ years and, ...
Setting up iPhone to Sync with a Google Account
When you set up your iPhone with a Google Apps account, it’s best to set it up as an Exchange account and NOT a gmail account as Google tells you in the set up. For whatever reason, they don’t tell you this in the account settings page. Here’s the link on how to properly set ...
The Difference Between “Proprietary” and “Open Source”
In the internet world, there’s a strong polarity between companies that create “Proprietary” software that is kept secret, developed by employees and that you have to pay for and “Open Source” software that is written by contributors around the world and is given away. Shawn Coyne authored an article on stevenpressfield.com, called The Bubble Men that pretty ...
Remembering and Making an Impact, with thanks to Brad Meltzer.
I recently saw this Ted Video by Brad Meltzer called How to Write Your Own Obituary, which I highly recommend. Brad was a client of mine from 2000-2005 in the days of small, narrow, author websites (see screenshot to the right). We say howdy via email every couple of years, and I guess it’s about ...
3 Reasons Why Your Website Should be Like an Online Dating Website
In the last 15+ years, I’ve worked with more than 400 clients on more interactive projects and websites than I think I can count anymore (including a couple online dating sites). The result of all of this work is that I’ve come to realize that websites really fall under one main model, and that is ...
Understanding How to Change Your Feeds in Feedburner
Recently I launched a new site for a client and needed to change 5 exiting feeds to new RSS feed addresses. I searched a long time on the Google Feedburner docs looking for some information and confirmation and couldn’t find exactly what I needed. There were 3 questions I had: How do I change the ...
