Well now I know who to call when my good blog ~ goes bad.

I thank her for her always being there when I needed to talk, for letting me bounce my ideas of her and getting great feedback, and because she gives great bear reports on twitter. j/k

I also thank her for introducing me to Corrine briefly this year at SOBCon09 and for introducing me to her partner CK who is also fabulous!

What a great idea Corrine, this is inspiring me to do something nice for someone special in my life.

Vicky Hennegan
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I sure understand that comment about using the techy stuff as a way to avoid writing. Boy. I relate to that!

Robert,
I’ve been out of touch but thank you for coming over and commenting! I’m not even a life coach, but I am an Entrepreneur, and coach others on Conscious Livelihood and entrepreneurship, involved with all that comes internet marketing, social media and blogging. Most of all, its a blast.
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Congratz for both of you.. Corinne for the brand new design. I like it much much more, and Michelle for the line of products you have launched. It’s amazing!

All the best!
Robert
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Let me off the hook.

We are writers. Not techies. And you have so much knowledge to contribute.

I agree. Hire it out.

With my blogs, I’m probably capable of studying more and learning what I don’t know, but I’d rather spend my time doing other things. The only reason I picked up as much as I have is I plunked around until I messed things up and couldn’t fix them without help. So that’s where I stopped. I still pick things up, but only by accident.

There was a time when I didn’t know how to add pictures or insert links. Learning that was major for me at the time. The improvements in the new versions of WP have helped me learn to do other things. And Cpanel got a lot easier over the last year. It’s a lot more graphical so I can do more with it.

Sometimes I think I use the technical stuff to play with when I’m procrastinating on post or report writing. It needs to be done, but I should be writing some of the time I’m geeking out.
Being the Change I Wish to See – Sherri´s last blog ..John Hodgman on Nerds v Jocks

WOW you are way above me.

You will like Michelle when you need to use her.

I don’t know how to do most of the stuff you do. I rely on Michelle because I am inclined to make messes. And don’t ask me about plugins.

But she did teach me how to put up a picture and add a link. I consider that major!

This is a great surprise for Michelle! And when I get stuck, I know who to call.

I know when I first started with WordPress, I felt lost. It took me months to learn what I needed to do on my own. I wish I had had someone to call then. It’s one of the many reasons I took Blog Mastermind, just to have access to the forum for tech help.

On a scale of apprentice, journeyman, and master; I would be a first year journeyman. I took a ton of computer science in college but nobody uses Fortran and Cobol anymore, or cards and card readers either (showing my age here). I also didn’t end up in computer science so I haven’t used any of it.

I’ve figured my way through enough WordPress that I can do most of what I need, but I can only write small snippets of code and I don’t mess with themes because I will mess them up. I have very little clue how to write in Javascript, CSS and PHP, though I can do a little HTML. I mostly just comment out what I want to go away.

I set up local businesses with the basic internet marketing places they should be for a small fee, whether they have a website or not (Google Local, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).

I also set up some basic blogs for local businesses (mostly friends and acquaintances), but I stick to just setting up hosting, install WP, add a generic list of plugins, set up an email and RSS subscription box, set a home page if they don’t want it to be their blog, and run them through the WP admin panel. I either do basic maintenance for a monthly fee or send out reminders so those who want to can do it themselves. But that’s all I do.

So thanks, Corinne, for letting us all know about Michelle’s skills. When it gets more advanced than basic, I need someone to call, and I’ll be calling Michelle! So will my clients.

Sherri
Being the Change I Wish to See – Sherri´s last blog ..John Hodgman on Nerds v Jocks