Hello again tweeps, this time my post has zilch to do w/ SEO… I am happy to say though, social media rawks! And I’d like to use a bit of Social Media to help my friend Blow Out her charity event! One of my close friends growing up, Rita Ralph, is now without a sister. Since I have a ton of twitter buds I figured I’d extend the digital olive branch and let any of my tweeps help out. I know most, if any of you, don’t actually know her… good news is you didn’t need to know her to know that she was a great woman who unfortunately / unexpectedly left 2 children behind when she was murdered. You hear about this kind of stuff all the time in the news, but it’s not often that it hits this close to home. All I ask is that  you read the below note from Amy Pickard (a great friend, and her hubby schools me in golf </sidenote>) Amy is organizing the entire effort and has put together a great event.

What we need now is donations of any kind (I don’t care if it’s a $5 item or a $5k item – ANYTHING HELPS!) – Contact Amy via her email addy, or if you want, you can get a hold of me too… She needs everything for a 2/13/10 meeting to get everything set up for the 2/19/10 benefit for Sharrin’s kids. Anything will work folks… lets see what the ‘geek’ community can get together to help out some kids that lost their Mother.

A few years ago I wrote a long drawn out post (w/ an ex-employer I’ll not mention nor link to) about becoming a Twitter Rockstar…. After reading this, this morning…

Brent D. Payne A hilarious and often accurate article regarding follower counts and one’s “e-penis” size. http://bit.ly/7PGFdt via @RyanJones

I decided to take a look at what I was once sooooo proud of and now looks like it needs a snip. I know, I know… just a few short years ago I was telling everyone to accept any and all new followers. To try and engage them, even did a “Twitter Welcome Video” (which has had over 6,518 views as of this post and even ranks alright for the term) This was all fine and well in the infancy stage of Twitter. Granted I’ve been on here longer than the average bear… 13 March 2007 (I even beat the ‘When did you join twitter‘ guy by a week!) But alas… rounding that corner into my 3rd yr I’m struck w/ this conundrum…

I’m NOT ASHTON KUTCHER! I have to admit I was a little, okay, a LOT pissed off when the ‘celeb’s’ started getting 100k followers etc… it’s hard for the everyday average SEO guy to get up there w/ the likes of a Kelso (I still have better hair) Anyways… apparently everything I wrote about back in Oct’ 08 is now dead and gone… you can’t continue to approach Twitter in the same fashion. I’ve been struggling w/ this for a while now and I’m going to go ahead and rip the bandage off quickly!

Or at the very least… it would seem that way after spending some time on MLIA! In an on-going effort to stick to my new years resolutions (blogging being one of those) I decided to do a quick write up on something I’ve found extremely fascinating & oozing awesomesauce. It’s called “MLIA” A.K.A. “My Life Is Average” ***WARNING*** This site is extremely addictive! I take no responsibility for wasted hours at work or school! That being said… let’s move right along and get to the ‘fun stuff’.

What is MILA? Glad you asked… straight from the FAQ section -

mylifeisaverage.com is a normal and fairly un-exemplary addition to the web. It’s a collection of everyday anecdotes and stories likely to happen to anyone and everyone, sent to us exclusively by our users, which we then publish on the site. This is a space where you can share the normal and average stuff that happens in your day, and maybe realize that you are not alone in experiencing normal and average stuff. Posts usually start with “Today” and usually end with “MLIA” but no one really cares. This site is meant to be moderately amusing and can be read on a daily basis if you have absolutely nothing better to do.

Well it’s the New Year… I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! Did you make some awesome New Years Resolutions? I did… and I know if I write them down (or better yet, blog about it) I’ll have someone out there hold me to them! So here goes, in no particular order….

This year I resolve to do a whole buttload more than I did last year! And I’m going to blog about it this time – All of the things that I want (physical and out of life) how I feel (regardless of whether or not I piss people off) About my weight loss (I’m going to drop 40 lbs this year) About my friends / family / win’s / losses / and everything in between.

This year I resolve to do a whole buttload more than I did last year! And I’m going to blog about it this time – All of the things that I want (physical and out of life) how I feel (regardless of whether or not I piss people off) About my weight loss (I’m going to drop 40 lbs this year) About my friends / family / win’s / losses / and everything in between.

My Wish List:

Hidey Ho tweeps! I know it’s been a long time since I’ve put anything of substance up on the site. So today… something useful, quick, affordable, and oozing awesomesauce! Those of you that know me… know I’m a total analytics freak / geek. So when I start to notice trends I do what I can to appease those fine folks that visit my humble online abode.

With the increase of US based mobile users, (and more importantly all of the fine folks that check my site out from their phone) I started to take a look at a few of my older sites to see how long they took to load on my iPhone…. were they borked? Did they load quickly? There’s nothing more irrating than trying to get a site to load so  you can quickly call them when your lost and need directions, oh yeah and in heavy traffic. That being said… all of my sites got a big fat whopping F!

So this morning I set out with the ’simple goal’ of making a mobi version of this site. Tried a few hacks, messed up my .htaccess file… grew more gray hair, pulled some more out… then I stumbled across Crowd Favorite which (if you click the link) you’ll find a plugin called WordPress Mobile Version. Three minutes later my entire site was up and mobile! Fast, browser friendly, stripped down from the web version (with the option to switch over)