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Making the world better, by building better Web sites: Cleveland GiveCamp

I just had the most amazing weekend at Cleveland GiveCamp, a weekend long event during which programmers, developers, designers, writers and others came together to build Web sites and applications for local non-profit organizations. The event was hosted at Lean Dog, An Agile Software Studio housed in...

Content Curation: Learning from others and sharing their knowledge

The process of content curation is pretty simple. Basically one reads a variety of blogs, articles and sites on a given topic, then picks out the best ones to share, just as an editor might choose the most appropriate stories for an anthology of fiction, or a museum curator might choose the right comb...

Should we stay or should we go? Responding to Ning’s new pricing plans.

What do we do when a resource disappears, or changes in such a way that we need to reconsider our options? That is the question many of us are facing in regard to Ning, the social media service that let's you create your own social network. I'm currently a member of over a dozen Ning Networks, have cr...

Dust off those pixels: your Web site may be due for spring cleaning.

Spring cleaning is traditionally a time to take stock of our surroundings, get rid of the detritus and freshen up what's been getting stale over the long winter. Admittedly, this is not my area of expertise when it comes to house cleaning, but it is a task we should apply to our Web sites, pa...

Just a Quick Note to say that, I will not be using BlogCatalog in any shape or form!!....
Sorry for any Confusion!.... Laurie.

Upstart Blogger

Elephant in the Blog

You know when you have a dream that you’re in your home or your office or wherever, except it’s not your real home or office or wherever, but everyone in the dream including yourself is ac...

Stay At Home Babe- Beginning Blogger, Things I Learned the Hard Way—Part 3

Please note: I wrote this post last night in response to recent happenings here. I was going to wait until Monday to post it, I can’t wait. Ella was so brave that she inspires that passion...

This is me & my advice.

Yesterday, I received my first hater comment and it was very discouraging and hurtful. I almost threw in the towel and gave up writing all together. I know, I was a huge baby. You’d ...

Blogging – Finding Your Flavor

Well hello, Upstart Blogger! I want my first post to give you a little introduction into my crazy world, so I thought I would make a list of the things you should know about me. 1. I’m a ...

Stay at Home Babe: Beginning Blogger, Things I Learned the Hard Way–Part Two

As every good Momma should, I’ve decided to try and pass some tips on to you; things that I had to take the hard knocks to learn—in hopes that you, my Lovely Baby can learn from my mistake...

Here come the girls

Please give a big Upstart Blogger welcome to 3 new Upstart Bloggers who will be bringing their own distinctive brand of blogging to this blog. Stay At Home Babe, who you have already met y...

Like a Virgin, Blogged for the Very First Time

I could hardly believe my good fortune when I was reviewed by Nathan in this make-me-blush-amazing piece on Upstart Blogger. I joked on my Facebook and Twitter that I could now retire and ...

What’s in the box?

When we moved into the blog that is, was, and always will be Upstart Blogger, we were sent a zip file labelled “the box”. The box appears to an accumulation of digital ephemara...

Not Your Typical Mommy Blogger- A Stay At Home Babe

A not so recent development on the blogging front is the prolific presence of mommy bloggers. Some of them share to make money, others just need someone to talk to besides the kids. You&#...

Simple Money from your Twitter Following

If you’ve been in social media for awhile, you probably by now have a pretty good sized following (If you don’t, that’s a topic for another post). One of the ways you ca...

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