Is Working Online Killing Your Productivity?
One thing I’ve found over the last couple of years is that working online often kills my productivity. Being that social media is a large part of my business and my blog, it’s not difficult to get sidetracked reading tweets, checking out the news stream on Facebook, or monitoring keywords I’m tracking in Hootsuite. Before I know it, hours are gone and I’ve nothing to show for them. Another problem I run into is that while my laptop may be superbly organized, my desk typically isn’t so keeping a written to-do list or scheduling appointments and tasks in a written planner is rather pointless. In an attempt to get things in order, I worked out a few things that help me do more business and waste less time!
WordPress Basics, Part 1: .com versus .org
I have been shocked over the last few weeks to learn that many people are intimidated by WordPress… I’ve always found it to be extremely user friendly, but then again – I’ve been using it for over 5 years now so when I began with my very first installation years ago, it was actually a very basic package so all of the features you see now were introduced to me little by little. However, I believe my first version was 1.5.1 in the Summer of 2005. At that time, you had to have at least some database knowledge and technical expertise to go self-hosted because there was no such thing as the 1-click install as there is now with most hosting providers. You had to manually set up your database, create your wp-config.php file to connect your installation to that database, and there was no searching for or uploading plug ins and themes directly in your dashboard either. All of that had to be found on the web, downloaded, unzipped, and uploaded via FTP then activated within the installation. WordPress has come a long way since then!