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Using 301 Redirects to solve URL Canonicalization: Low Hanging Fruit for SEO and Web Standards

This is the first part in a series of solid web standards that I plan on writing.  There is a lot of simple web standards, or things that I think should be standards, that people either do the hard way or don’t make their site as user friendly as possible.  So either you know exactly [...]

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Making a Status Updates Across the Social Media Universe

Director of Web Marketing introduced this nice tip last week so I definitely want to give him a hat tip! You can read his full post about it, Pingilactic, you say?, for additional details. If you are into all the social media buzz and want to stay in touch with lots of friends across multiple sites then [...]

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Taking Soundslides to the Next Level, Videos!

Some months ago College Web Guy wrote a post about Soundslides. In the software’s own words, “Soundslides is a rapid production tool for still image and audio web presentations.” It isn’t kidding. This software is so easy to use, a caveman could use it!

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Google Analytics 101: Some Basic Setup Tips

Since coming back from Google Analytics training last week finding the time to setup all the wonderful new tricks that I learned has presented a challenge.  This post is a nice little introduction to some of the basics that I learned last week.  This is part one in what will be a continuing series about Google [...]

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Do you monitor your Institutes online identity? Here are some tools to help.

In the last few weeks a few new tools have come out to help in monitoring an online identity.  Because of this I think it’s important to take a deeper look into what to monitor.  As if you didn’t already have enough things to do in a normal day, there is a whole list of things that require regular monitoring.   Although this article [...]

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How to use RSS and why I chose Netvibes

Before I share some of the more complex web monitoring things that I do I thought it might be best to write a post going back to the beginning to explain this beast that is RSS.  If you will embrace it and get creative it will change the way you do business!  I GUARANTEE IT!

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Four Reasons Why to Optimize Web Graphics and How to be Environmentally Friendly

What is the difference between the following two pictures?

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The Right Way to Setup a WordPress Blog and Why: Part 2

If you haven’t read part one about how to setup a WordPress blog then I highly recommend reading it. This post will cover customizing your WordPress blog using themes and plug-ins.

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The Right Way to Setup a WordPress Blog and Why: Part 1

So as I mentioned in my first post starting a blog and doing a better job of professional development is one of my New Year’s resolutions.  This has been quite an adventure getting the blog to the point that it is now.  Hours of research, installation, and decision making later I think the blog is [...]

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