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This semester, I’m teaching Composition I for OTC online. It is an adventure for sure. I’m just now starting to get used to answering the varied and informal questions I’ve been getting in my OTC inbox, and I’m taking a professional development course that shows instructors how to make the most of multimedia like images, [...]

Today’s post is a part of the Springfield Bloggers Association “Take It and Blog Fridays.” The  theme today is Statistics and Analytics.
In my experience, it doesn’t take long for your website to be live before you begin wondering if people are stopping by to check it out. If you opened a business, you could see [...]

Google Buzz is all the rage. Or, everyone’s buzzing about Google Buzz. Either way, it’s hot right now. I posted my first take on Google’s Twitter-Facebook-Flickr mashup available directly in Gmail over on Ozarks Bazaar, so go check it out. As a teaser, I’ll tell you my seven reasons, but you’ll have to read the [...]

After installing Windows 7, you’ll need to download and reinstall all of the programs you had installed before. Let Ninite do the work for you!

This guest post is from my little brother, Daniel, who recently saved my laptop from almost certain bricking. Check out his other guest posts here.

So you took the dive and upgraded to Windows 7, eh? Congratulations! Now what? Let me tell you a dirty little secret about upgrading to Windows 7.
If you poke around on [...]

Ever since Sarah (@sarahjoaustin) and I published our series on the True Beginner’s Guide to Twitter and the corresponding eBook, I have been getting questions about Twitter. Some are easily answered in a tweet or quick email, but this one I thought deserved to be a blog post. If you have any questions

Today, we are releasing an eBook, “A True Beginners Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter” (PDF), which puts all of the great guides, links, and resources in one nifty PDF file for you take with you offline and share with others as much as you’d like.

We learn about new Twitter tools and resources every day, but there are so many, you can easily become overwhelmed. We’ve categorized them by function and given them a brief description. We hope you’ll find them useful, too.

Sarah (@sarahjoaustin) and I (@xgravity23) are publishing our True Beginner’s Guide to Twitter this week and today you can find the third section, Twittering on the Web, at Your Desk, and On the Go, on Sarah’s blog. If you want to start from the beginning, check out Basic Twitter Functions and Advanced Twitter Functions. You’ll [...]

Today’s post, the second of four, is a collaborative effort by Sarah (@sarahjoaustin) and me (@xgravity23). Yesterday, you learned the basic functions of Twitter and in this post, you’ll learn advanced Twitter functions. In the next two posts, you’ll learn how to use Twitter on the web, at your desk, and on the go; and get our recommended Twitter tools and resources.

Once you’ve been on Twitter for a day or two and you’ve nailed down the basic Twitter functions,