Pittsburgh
Actually, make it 13. Because number 13 is, “when you try to edit a WordPress photo caption after you publish your post, you break your blog.” So, the original post is gone. Whoops. I’d rewrite the whole thing, but we all have lives, so here are the salient points I think I made the first [...]
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A few weeks ago, my blog imploded. For whatever reason, my backups weren’t actually backing up, and one day I awoke to a tweet from a reader informing me that none of my posts existed anymore. That’s never good. So I contacted my tech guy, Shawn Smith, who’s been saving my digital ass since 2003 [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, I don’t have a marketing background. I went to art school. (Although, given the bad rap EDMC — which bought and gutted everything I loved about The Art Institute of Pittsburgh over the years — has been getting regarding their own business practices, whether or not AIP still qualifies as an [...]
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UPDATE: Due to the high volume of traffic that this post always receives, I’ve launched a new blog called CrowdFunding Help, which provides tips, news, interviews and how-tos for Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and more. Check it out! Last month, I created a Kickstarter project to help raise the initial funding for my new creative project, The [...]
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As PodCamp Boston 5 gears up this weekend, I thought I’d look back in time a few years — specifically, back to September of 2006, when a few geeks from Boston changed the way we use computers. That summer, a no-name blogger named Chris Brogan had become friends with some of Boston’s social media crowd. [...]
Continue reading about The Story of the Very First PodCamp (or, See How Far Social Media Has Come?)
