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Web Wonders and Horrors: e-Mail

I love the web best when it isn't just linking pages together but when it is linking people. Email and the Internet have evolved into powerful tools that allowed us to relate with others in new and powerful ways. I have been very blessed by the relationships that I initiated and cultivated over the Internet. ...

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WordPress 3.0: Custom Taxonomies and Custom Post Types

There is a new version of WordPress coming and I am pretty excited about it. I am a data geek. I love information and I like to organize it in different ways to make it accessible and interesting to others. WordPress 3.0 is going to make it easier for you to organize your information so ...

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Hang with the Cool Cats

For about a year now, I have been appreciating the email feed from Cats Who Code.  The posts on the Cats Who Code web site are well written, easy to read and are chock full of good information. Nothing is dummied down nor do you need to be a rocket scientist to understand ...

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Woopra Registration Re-opens

Woopra, the real-time statistical analysis and tracking program for web sites and blogs, has re-opened for registration. For over a year, Woopra has been beta, working with its beta testers to create a robust statistical analysis program. The Woopra beta version was available by ...

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Guess who is coming to visit LVS Online?

Image by Randy Stewart via Flickr Lorelle VanFossen and Mark J Carter will be a guest instructors for the Blogging ...

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Why Awareness Messages Aren’t Enough for Social Media

I found this great quote today about social media messages: But hear this trick: it won’t be because you gave the message to me in your words. It will be because the experience gave *me* the inspiration to create messaging of my own. It might be what you intended, but it might ...

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How Social Media gets bloggers out of their pajamas

Tweetups, Meetups, conferences and twittered invites are opening up the doors to pajama bloggers. Blogging in one's pajamas is a stereotype, but like most stereotypes it is grounded in at least some element of truth.  I like my pajamas and I ...

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