As some of you have previously read, on Friday, May 24 (through Sunday, May 26) I will be appearing as a guest author at the Alabama Phoenix Festival. Now that I’m pretty sure it is set in stone, I’m ready to share the schedule of panels I will be appearing on. If you’re in the Birmingham…

My husband once explained a theory of relationships that he got from his father: You have a bank. You fill that bank by doing things with or for your friends and loved ones. If you’re there with coffee at the ER at midnight, that is worth more than going to see Evil Dead together. Different…

There are two kinds of widgets in my world. The first kind is the type of WordPress plugin that appears in the sidebar or footer of a blog. The second kind is snippet of code generated by a site that you can paste into your own web design to display remote content. I’m writing about…

Analytics For WordPress- Many advanced themes now come with analytics built in to the theme options, but many others do not. If you aren’t using Analytics in your blog (if you’re still trying to use Jetpack to track your traffic) you are missing out on a lot of useful data. This is the best plugin….

Before I set out to pimp my own books, I read a very excellent marketing and PR book called The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott. I highly recommend it, as it goes over content marketing, social media, and a few cautionary tales about customer service and misrepresentation. The most important thing that…