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Going to a meetup tonight. On SEO and tings of dat sort.

Training Day 1. Get Ready for Revolution

Three practices for blogging on your companies website.

This webinar so far has given me some good info and im 15 minutes in. Sidebars with dropdowns. keeps it clean and options open, but not clustered. that last sentence was just a reminder of what i was listening to as i type. Tryin to make some notes but good info keeps streaming.


Anyway,

                 1st strategy.

Always remember people want to avoid discomfort. If choosing your product causes more discomfort than the status quo, you will be left behind. You MUST make them feel uncomfortable with the status quo.

for example..... Cd's vs mp3 players.

the status quo was cd's. everyone had a cd collection. and spend hundreds of dollars on products that can be scratched and ruined. most songs on albums suck, so they paid for music they did not like. mp3's can be downloaded and purchased online, instantly, wont degrade blah blah blah. you must make that cd collected feel uncomfortable with all these cd's to make him buy the mp3 player.

                 2nd Strategy.

Blog about wide subjects. NOT YOUR PRODUCT. hotels blog about travel locations and traveling in general to widen the audience coming into their website. blog about a wide subject. for the coffee machine, blog about espresso and different kinds of coffee. where coffee comes from and the lifestyle of the coffee growers. what nation does all this coffee come from? fun facts on coffee growing countries. lifestyle of coffee drinkers. office jokes.

                 3rd Strategy.

A blog is something that does not really show results. and it never ends. if you are going to start, you cant stop. respond in a timely manner.

                  4th Strat.

You can pick a few of your biggest fans and have them do your blogging for you. Evangelists and die hard fans can be your best workers for next to nothing. Reminds me of the VIP status and Moderators on forums.

Hey I just checked my blog traffic. It seems 24 people have seen this blog. Although it was probably me viewing it 23 times..... And in that case, you, who are the only person reading this besides me.... hello. How do you do? Whats your family like? Can you answer the question to life? No? Either can I.

What are we supposed to do with our time here? Do we just float away when were gone? Why ask these questions? To try and find out. To explore the human psyche. To assemble a rational reason of what were doing on this water logged ball of rock hurtling through outer space. All the cliche stuff..........like...... why are we here? How far along are we in our evolution? Is there a God? you know all the stuff from the movies.

Will someone......someday..... be looking at my blog posts as we look at a cave drawing? The history of mankind goes far back, with many different people who all inhabited the Earth. Whom have all died off. Think of the memories of their families; brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. Cousins, aunts, uncles and daughters. All coexisting. Born of each other, and grown by the sun. Our beacon in the cosmos.





Basking us in its wondrous glory. It's really a strange thing to think about. When you really take a look at what were taught in school and what we have learned so far in our very short lives......you really must look at it and say.... DAYUM! This place is F***ed up!

Got myself a new enemy. Dang..... I try to limit them....... why must people be so irrational? I guess some personalities just do not click with each other. Strange to think about.

This Is How I Feel

 

 

But on a good note, I have finished my first Gamma-ray pulsar search. My computer has searched a collection of data studied by a group from our very home town of Milwaukee over at UWM.

 

 This group is searching for Einsteins pulsars in outer space to get a greater understanding of the laws of gravity. They utilize cloud computing to calculate collected data. My machine is connected through this cloud which allots part of my processor, memory, and hd space to the calculations. It hasn't found a pulsar yet, but this was its first completed search. So its only a matter of time before my computer discovers one. I leave it running 24/7 in the name of science!

Over My Head

This was the first WordPress meetup I was able to attend.... and it was.... good? I was pretty much lost the entire time I was there. They kept tossing jokes around about PHP, other languages and technical jargon. Everyone laughed, I was watching some people and it looked like they were laughing just because everyone else was so I don't feel i was the only one who was not getting these nerd jokes. I was pretty upset because nerd jokes are the best kind of jokes. 

But otherwise there was free pizza and beer. Mmmmm pizza and beer, this place wasn't messing around let me tell you. The company was good and the information was even better. I learned about certain security measures to protect your clients, as well as your website in case of attack. Scanner services, proactive protection, and detection. It was all good info. I look forward to the next one. And I found out there is a WordPress Camp that will be held this summer that is sponsored by WP Engine. Sweet. Tickets are $20, your damn right I'm showing up.

I'm Messing This Up

Well this experiment is failing miserably. Every time I plan to go to these meetups my schedule either changes or I decide something else is better to do. Darn my busy life. It wasn't always like this. I actually used to be pretty lazy, well.. I'm still lazy, I just figure I better do something or I'll be an old 40 year old stoner with no job, haven't seen a part of the world larger than..... well alot smaller than Earth. At least I'm not living in my parents basement anymore!

 Getting yelled at for not doing the dishes and still eating her homemade cookies long into the night playing video games. Yea that doesn't sound very appealing to me so that is why I now choose not to stay stagnant.