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{ Monthly Archives } May 2004

Under Construction

Updat­ing to Word­Press 1.2 at the moment; the site may not look so pretty until I get my style sheets sor­ted out and the tweaks put back.

Update: I now have most of the tweaks in place and the site should work much the same as it did before. I’ll intro­duce some of the new fea­tures over the next little while, so expect some changes on the site.

2004 05 30 WordPress Comments (0)

Using Blogs for Project Management

I chaired the RSS and Web­log day at Sey­bold San Fran­cisco 2003 (I’d put in a link but there’s noth­ing use­ful there that isn’t password-protected). One of the pan­el­ists was talk­ing about using blogs for pro­ject man­age­ment, espe­cially when new people are expec­ted on the team. The idea is that new people can come up to speed quickly and don’t need to have mega-mounds of email for­war­ded to them. Sounds good, but in prac­tice I’m find­ing that people have a hard time adapt­ing to using more than one method of com­mu­nic­a­tion. So many people use email for a simple todo-list tracker and pro­ject man­ager that they send email first and think about maybe doing a blog entry “if they have time” afterwards.

2004 05 27 Technology Comments Off

What WordPress Does Right

There’s been a flurry of interest in Word­Press ever since it was announced that Mov­ab­le­Type will be mov­ing to a fee-based model. There already was a sub­stan­tial amount of interest in Word­Press. That’s because the people run­ning it (mostly, from what I can see, Matt Mul­len­weg, and there’s a longer list at About Word­Press) did quite a few things right. So here’s Lauren’s Product Man­age­ment 101, using Word­Press as the example.

2004 05 14 Technology
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Popcorn Pilates

The Pil­ates stu­dio where I go is, together with lots of other stu­dios, host­ing Pil­ates Day. The first event was watch­ing film of Joseph Pil­ates in action, accom­pan­ied by pop­corn, com­ment­ary, and lots of laughter and aston­ish­ment at his meth­ods. And a hun­dreds com­pet­i­tion, just to get people warmed up.

2004 05 09 Hobbies Comments Off

Surveys

As a small busi­ness owner, I often get people call­ing up with some sur­vey or another. They want to know whether my busi­ness is grow­ing, whether I’ll be hir­ing more people this year, and what soft­ware and ser­vices I sell. If these sur­veys are the basis of the eco­nomic polls pre­dict­ing what’s hap­pen­ing this year, […]

2004 05 03 General
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