Author Archives: Sue

Getting Started with WordPress

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Sue

As promised, more WordPress tutorials! Today’s lessons cover: Navigating the WordPress admin bar: Working with Hyperlinks: Editing Text: Pasting from Word files:

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WordPress Support

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Sue

Lately my development plate has been heaped full of WordPress goodness. Accordingly, I’ll be using my blog for the next interval for some basic WordPress training. Today’s tutorials are on getting started with a WordPress site. The WordPress dashboard: Using … Continue reading →

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Letterpress Printing

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Sue

Ben Proudfoot brings us a celebration of two historic processes – paper making and letterpress printing. Well worth your time, especially if you love ink on paper: ink&paper from Ben Proudfoot on Vimeo.

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Programming Note

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Sue

As a self taught coder I’m always looking to polish up my skills, so I’ve signed up for Code Year, a service supported by Y Combinator, TechStars, Girl Develop It and Hack NY. They send a free weekly interactive lesson … Continue reading →

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Year in Search

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sue

I’m always a big fan of Google’s end of the year review of top searches of the year: The Plus promotion is wildly exaggerated, of course, but overall nice overview.

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The latest WordPress release, Sonny, is available today as a stable download candidate. I’ve already installed 3.3 on this site and we’ll be updating network blogs once we’ve worked through the inevitable plugin conflicts and customization issues. The new release … Continue reading →

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Ideas, Networks and Change

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Sue

This is a great talk from one of my favorite big thinkers Anil Dash on how new tools can assist in the spread and scope of change. Highly recommended for people interested in learning how one person really can make … Continue reading →

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Platform or Person?

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Sue

I had an email exchange earlier today with a non-technical founder who is annoyed with the platform (a modular content management system) he has built his business on. Apparently his CMS has crashed a few times, but it also seems … Continue reading →

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Ready Set Run

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Sue

The advertising sector would be dandy if all its clients were this willingly creative: Via the always engaging Scott Berkun. What did you make today? Share in the comments.

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Sunday Simmers

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Sue

Some good long reads this weekend – What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology: Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz has an honest and sobering talk about CEO psychological meltdown. I’ve been on both sides of this and … Continue reading →

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