My WordCamp Presentation: Tom’s Top Ten Tips for Blogging with WordPress
Here are the slides from my talk at WordCamp Boston yesterday. Thank you to everyone who came to my talk, I hope you enjoyed it and found at least one tip that is useful to you. For those of you who...
View ArticleMy WordCamp Presentation Video – Tom’s Top Ten Tips for Blogging with WordPress
Back in July, I spoke at WordCamp Boston. The slides have been up for a while, and now the video of my talk, along with all of the other talks at WordCamp Boston, are posted online. My talk is embedded...
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Write better, delete more
A key to writing concisely is the willingness to delete. Often, when I’m writing something meant to be short and to the point, like a blog post, I’ll draft something pretty rapidly. But then I’ll edit,...
View ArticlePutting Yourself Out There; Blogging Your Personal Brand
Here’s a presentation I delivered to Suffolk University MBA students on establishing a personal brand online. I offer a model of Learn, Share, Connect as a framework for both why you should do this and...
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A 5 step plan for how to blog more frequently
Several people have asked recently how I manage to blog as frequently as I do (currently 5 posts per week), so I thought I’d share some strategies. 1. Make a committment First of all, you need to like...
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Why are you blogging?
As I prepare to speak at WordCamp Boston 2012 later this week, I’m thinking about several WordPress tips to share. I manage three WordPress sites and use many of the same principles, techniques, and...
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The comfort zone and baby steps
In my keynote presentation at the CIO Perspectives event earlier this week, I tried to provide insight into what slows down CIOs and IT folks in general from being more active on social media, with the...
View ArticleIT pros of all ranks: Your job search needs a resume plus search results
How do you represent yourself on a few 8.5″ x 11″ sheets of paper? Very carefully, and then still not very well. We want to see your work history, the litany of technical jibber jabber you’ve got...
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Delete The Preamble
Make your writing better by implementing this one simple tip: delete your first two paragraphs. That’s the part where you likely set the stage in a verbose manner. That preamble probably contains too...
View ArticleHow Blogging Has Made Me A Better CIO
Inspired by Phil Komarny’s post, How Being Social Made Me A Better CIO, I thought I’d share how blogging has made me a better CIO. Ironically, I’ve often spoken about this in talks and presentations,...
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3 things IT leaders can do to start to embrace social media
Last week I wrote a post about how IT departments can be overly cautious about social media – either ignoring it, or even actively impeding it’s use within some companies. In the comments, John Refford...
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Teaching and Learning at WordCamp Boston
WordPress is an amazing open source software success story. Launched modestly in 2003 as a collaboration effort of a handful of people, it is now the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world....
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