For the past six months I have been signed up for a free online training course that teaches marketing to hyper-responsive customers.  Hyper-responsive customers are the customers who buy everything you have got, keep asking for more, and tell all their friends about your products and services.  Just recently, this email course was opened to a broader audience and I thought I would pass it along.  To sign up, click here (email opt-in required). More...

If you use twitter as a social networking tool and have several followers, then you realize the amount of tweets you get can be overwhelming.  How can you sift through the tweets and organize them so that your friends and followers get your first attention?  Thanks to twitter having an open programming interface, lots of third party tools exist to solve the "noise" from "signal" problem, but, unfortunately, this just moves the problem to finding the best or most popular programs.  This is where the Twitter Resource Program Guide helps by listing over 200 programs for Microsoft Windows and Macs.  Click the link at the bottom of this post to get the free guide. More...

Back in March 2008, Al Nyveldt wrote a Most Popular Post Extension and Widget for Blogengine.Net.  Dutifully, I downloaded it and tried to install the widget using the BE 1.4.5 widget framework, but it did not work.  A quick check of Al's html source code revealed that he created the widget to operate outside the new widget zone framework.   Knowing the answer and then reviewing his website, it became clear why he did this ...  he has two columns on the right side with widgets in both columns.  Currently BE 1.4.5 only supports one widget zone (or column), although the blog administrator can put multiple widgets inside the one widget zone.  More...

I have been blogging for my day job and my kids' sport associations and teams for about two years now.  During that time, I have thought about creating a personal and hobby blog that would give a forum for existing and new friends who share common interest to meet. More...