I’ve noticed recently as I go to and from my days between meetings and conferences, and kids sporting events, that most everyone keeps tabs with their smartphone. As I walk by and glance at what’s so important, I can say most of the time […]
Category: Technology
Delete the App, Use the Browser
My Love And Hate With Social Media. If, like me, you don’t want to give up social media, because it’s not going away, but you do need a way to seriously cut back, the best way I have found is go off the usual […]
The Thing About Email Domains
Just thinking, I have to say that email service domain names are a bad online ID that we use for most everything. We all have an email address, or usually need one for subscribing to social media and the like, even though an email […]
The Blogging Newsletters Problem
With blogging and newsletters, there’s a new problem – email service providers and email clients can’t keep up with privacy measures and deliver on the marketing promises in their ads. Readers are missing important email content and it seems to be getting worse. In […]
Golden Hour on the Fence
The golden hour winter sun sets on a picket fence, and snowy tree branches, creating a moment of visual respite for end of the day worries and concerns. When you’re so tired in today’s world, of balancing technology with human interactions, or worries and […]
It’s Only One Day
There’s many things in life that we feel are important. Yet, the day we’re on our death bed will reveal if we’ve been right. What is most important, I have learned, is to each day take care of unfinished business, and correct all that […]
Sunrise Cloud Reflection – Orton Effect
The Chaos of Alias Email
I don’t know if it is a fad or becoming a trend, but the use of an alias email address it seems to be popular of late. The word alias = a false name used to conceal one’s identity; an assumed name. I know […]
Email Lists and Tracking
The branches of the tree in this picture reminds me of the winding of the information on the internet. I can only imagine all the directions our emails are going back and forth. And how keeping track of it all might be confusing if […]
The Messages In Our Lives
How we respond to others has a huge impact on the world. How we treat others makes a huge impact on how they see the world around them. The messages in our lives shared through experiences and examples, though subtle, speak and teach louder […]
Email And Mental Health
I have noticed recently more and more that people are talking about how overwhelmed they are with their email inbox and the need to make it more digestible. We know that social media has an effect on our mental health, with the algorithms and […]
Should Artists or Nonprofits Use A Domain Name?
It is said that if you want to be successful as an artist or nonprofit that you should have your own website and domain name to establish credibility. I think this can also be said for freelancers or bootstrapers. Lets take a new look […]
Privacy, Security, and the Web
There is much talk these days with digital communications about privacy and security, because there seems to be much confusion mostly on what Big Tech is doing with it. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, known for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide […]
Why Networking is Important
Why balancing your relationships online and offline is important in life, and how it can create more and positive impact. On my social media channels I usually don’t post a picture directly, like many other artists do, along with sales jargon or a call […]
How To Beat The System
Back in the day when I started to drive a car, the police were in the beginning phase of using radars to detect the speed you were driving. What followed was the radar detectors so that you would know if you were in the […]
The Online Meeting Axiom
In the past year that the COVID pandemic has spread around the world, online conference video chats have become more the norm than the exception they were. And all of these platforms it seems have had to make improvements to their technology to meet […]
Email is the Original Social Media
With my last blog post, I talked about how using blogs and MeWe are an alternative to the big tech option of information suppression social media. This post I would like to add how Email is the original social media, and I make the […]
I Make a Case for Writing My Blog on Vivaldi
I just read a book by Glenn Reynolds, “The Social Media Upheaveal”. He says that we are deep reading less, and learning from headlines more. He also says that many of us share on social media articles that we have not read, more so […]
How Do You Get The Talent That You Pay for?
There is this argument among freelancers and contractors, that when you pay for their services that you’re not paying for the service time as much as you pay for the years of experience that brought them to providing their service. I think you pay […]
True Inclusion and Diversity
If you look around at websites and social media profiles, some businesses, and the social media platforms themselves, seem to be bowing to the culture wars, especially here in the United States. They design their logos to highlight the cause, and use the hashtags […]
The Simple Things Are Profound
I spend much time reading blog posts and, more often than not, many bloggers seem to try to be profound rather than just being themselves. By profound I mean to be far reaching in your thinking, or having great insight or understanding on a […]