Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category


Forget Toastmasters, improve public speaking through podcasting!

Monday, Nov 2nd, 2009 by Dave Kramer | 0 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, How To, Podcasting, Work Tools | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

We recently launched a podcast for our gaming blog, and it’s made a real difference in my public speaking. I joined Toastmasters years ago, and while it’s a great tool for some and definitely wins out in the social department, it never cured me of my ums and ahs.
But after three weeks of podcasting, they’re [...]

Social media and travel: How to protect your privacy

Tuesday, Sep 8th, 2009 by Dave Kramer | 0 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, Social Networking, Twitter, iPhone | Tags: , , , , ,

When you post details of your day-to-date life on social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook, you run the risk of exposing too much information. For instance, sharing your travel plans could provide a thief with the ideal timing to break into your home and clean you out.
By default, Twitter posts are viewable and [...]

WordPress Plug-in Watch: iPhone theme, sharing, auto-Twitter and not-so-Simple Tags

Tuesday, Jun 9th, 2009 by Dave Kramer | 0 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Community, Social Networking, Twitter, iPhone | Tags: , , , , ,

After years grappling with Movable Type for our gaming site blog, I’ve recently come to really embrace WordPress’s simplicity and extensibility. One of the things that makes it so great these days is the ease with which you can add and update plug-ins used to improve the features of your blog. In most cases, you [...]

Musings on WordPress (and how far we bloggers have come)

Monday, Apr 13th, 2009 by Dave Kramer | 0 Comments
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When I first started blogging regularly in 2003, Radio Userland was one of the most popular solutions. This tool ran as an application on your local PC and had to transmit your posts from a locally stored database on your computer to wherever your Web site was hosted, translating it into HTML on the fly. Most of the [...]

Introducing The Writer’s Bloc

Monday, Apr 13th, 2009 by Dave Kramer | 0 Comments
Filed under: About Us, Blogging, Community, Copywriting, Customer Focus, Marketing, Project Management, Social Networking | Tags: ,

Welcome to our Seattle-based consulting company home page. But we’re more than just consultants. We’re scribes, community experts, project managers and social networking afficionados. We want to share back some of the ideas we develop in the course of our daily work.
So we have relaunched this site as a blog where we can tell you some of [...]



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