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How I Am Still Making Amends For Putting My Brother In The Dryer & Turning It On

UPDATE:  This is a post I wrote last year and I am still making amends for putting my bro in the dryer.  :-) The continued support from family and friends has been tremendous.  Thank you! 
Did I ever tell you the story about when I put my brother in the dryer and I turned it on?

True brotherly love!!!

It’s a true story.  I was 11 and he was 8.

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Digital Presence Testing

Is Your Digital Presence Up To Snuff?

If it’s not, you are probably not the only one.

If upon reading that title you suddenly do a mental sprint through your existing social media activities and other online profiles, don’t worry, you are not the only one. Plus, that was my intent.

Just to be honest, as I typed it onto the page, I too did the old cerebral checklist.

You see, even though I’ve been online and active in digital marketing for the last 13 years, it has still taken me awhile to figure this whole digital thing out. As a matter of fact, I will openly admit that coming up with a better way to build out my own digital presence has been somewhat of an evolutionary process.

Do you know what I’ve discovered?

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Mobile Madness - Responsive vs Adaptive

Mobile Madness – Responsive Design vs Adaptive Design

Who doesn’t love March Madness?

Ok, well maybe you don’t, but there was some great basketball played this past weekend to decide who gets into the Final Four.

The game between Michigan and Kansas was a barn burner and resulted in a 2 point win for the big ‘M’.

Remember the Fab Five???  I am still a Wolverines fan, thanks to Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Jalen Rose, Ray Jackson and Juwan Howard.

The game was close with the score finally taping off at 87-85.

While watching the game, I surfed the web on my new Galaxy III phone and I realized that during March Madness, colleges play hard, but businesses play hard on mobile.  Especially during March Madness.

There’s a huge surge in mobile web users during this time and as business owners we can’t afford to overlook this opportunity to expand.

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Posterous to Wordpress

Posterous Is Gone, Long Live WordPress.com

April 30th will mark the end of an era. Posterous is going away for good, leaving posters with three options: migrate to another blog platform or start over from scratch. I loved working on Posterous.  Before Posterous, I had used WordPress (self-hosted), then Blogger, then Tumblr.  Over that time I have posted 1,113 blog posts with 923 comments, over 7 years of my life.

With that much content in the cloud, I wanted to save as much of that as I could, so I did some research on the best platforms to migrate to without too much hair-pulling.

As you know, I don’t have much hair left to pull. :-)

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