In “How to Find Your Tribe in One Word” by Liz Strauss, she wrote about how it is too easy to feel separated from society by the actions often not of our choosing. Lots of folks have lots of reason for feeling we’re on the outside. It’s almost overwhelming. The world can seem to be o...

Today I noticed an article in the Wall Street Journal title, "When Bad Times Make Good Movies" and thought that is exactly what is occurring today in the marketing community. Bad times are making us better marketers. It's back to marketing basics but with new strategies in our tool box...

The year is off to a great start for WordPress fans with WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia 2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia, a snow-filled skiing and photography WordCamp Whistler, two WordCampED educational WordCamp events in Worcester, Massachusetts and Vancouver, BC, Canada, WordCamp Jena in Germa...

Each year as I'm reviewing and closing out books, notes, and documentation for the year, I take the opportunity to make some comparisons.  Overall, it's been a momentous year personally, professionally, and industry-wide. As always, I have some hard metrics to back each of these up, but here's the ...

Ira Basen objects to the way I covered his presentation last week in Toronto to the Canadian Institute Conference on Social Media. Ira is a smart, respected senior producer who has had a distinguished career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is also a highly opinionated person who knows h...

The Harlingen Airport is happy to see birders in Texas--look at the size of that banner! I feel so welcomed for the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. We had the opening reception last night, which is a great time to reconnect with friends and eat some fancy foods. There was a new addition to the tabl...

Holy Buckets, I am in love with the boys at the Golden Valley, MN National Camera Exchange. My all-time favorite point and shoot digital camera to use for digiscoping is a Fuji FinePix E900. It's been discontinued and hard to find. They found one for me. I'm takin' that bad boy to Texas. The Canon A...

Our workshop was for Blogging Basics: personalize, polish, and promote your blog. Danielle Henderson, Alissa Kriteman, and Meghan Garnum joined me on the stage. Kristy got us in touch with Elliot, the hotel employee setting up the projector, who found all the stuff and the cables and hooked everythi...

BlogHer's Elisa Camahort Page moderated the last panel at BlogHer yesterday. It was essentially a fireside chat with Stephanie Klein and Heather Armstrong. Elisa asks them what their lives were like 'before blogging.' They largely talked about how their blogs impact their lives today as a way to dem...

This year’s Karl Barth blog conference is now up and running. Over the coming days, there’ll be about a dozen posts discussing Barth and the theology of his greatest student, Eberhard Jüngel. You can read the summary here, and the first post here. I’ve also added a widget to the top of the si...