I have a friend who turned 50 yesterday, and last night we celebrated her birthday. As a gift, I decided to put together a bookmark for her, depicting 1963 in history.
Certainly the most famous event of 1963 in the United States was the Nov. 22 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. But did you know that all of the following events also occurred in 1963? Continue reading
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For someone who lives in an Apple household and loves the death out of Apple products, I have to admit that I’ve now spent so much time working on PCs in my professional life (never been self-employed) that I actually find myself having to learn/re-learn how to use a Mac. Continue reading
I love to cook.
I especially love to bake – a skill I picked up from my mom. I’m actually good at it, too. I’m the pie baker, cookie maker and cake provider for my extended family. If the occasion calls for dessert, nine times out of 10 I’m bringing it, and 99 times out of 100 it will be homemade.
But I’m also very distractable and have a hard time stopping myself from multi-tasking. If I’m not being fully challenged by a task, I sometimes let my mind drift forward to the next job. Given an opportunity, I look for another challenge. Continue reading
What metrics should you be tracking to monitor your website’s search engine optimization?
You need to define and monitor key metrics so you’ll know whether your efforts are working. Continue reading
Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan announced last week that he will begin charging readers to access his blog, The Dish. This is very big news in the journalism world, where the question of whether readers will actually pay for good content rages. But it also carries with it a lesson for associations – and really for anyone who has a website that they want people to visit. Continue reading