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9. December 2011

I train a lot of people on how to use WordPress, Drupal, and other content management systems, and I’ve found that my methods have changed a lot over these few years. I used to write out full documentation on all of the steps needed, and provide the client with a nice document… a document that [...]

An Intro to Tropo – Presentation

1. April 2011

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Here’s the slides for the presentation I did about the Tropo platform for the Winnipeg Ruby user group. Not a huge amount of information in the slides themselves, but I did point out some decent examples you can check out: Tropo documentation Example using the Web API Sinatra examples, using the Web API – great [...]

Drupal Webforms – States and Provinces

23. November 2010

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Here is the data you can use when setting up a select box in a Drupal webform for selecting American states, and Canadian provinces.

BrowserCMS – a Content Management System for Ruby on Rails

18. August 2010

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Up until recently, content management systems were big business, and unless you wanted to pay for a commercial system, many companies built their own. After the huge growth of free CMSes though, a company called BrowserMedia took a bold approach with their proprietary CMS: they rewrote it in Ruby on Rails, and released it as open source.

Wacky Telephony with Tropo

5. August 2010

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Alright, I love playing with new technologies, but if I can’t make something wacky within the first 10 minutes then I tend to lose interest. There’s gotta be examples for me to rip off — stealing people’s ideas really gets my creative juices flowing. Tropo is a service that does exactly this. Great API, great examples, and super easy to get set up.

MailChimp Features – a brief rundown

19. June 2010

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Man, I am on such a MailChimp kick lately! Maybe it’s their wacky sense of humour, or their great feature set, or maybe I’m just delirious from spending hours putting together a bilingual newsletter :) Anyway, I spent some time putting together some information about MailChimp’s pricing, and some of their more useful features, so I figured I’d post it online.

Trying out MailChimp for Email Newsletters

18. May 2010

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Here are some of my first impressions with the email marketing tool MailChimp. Don’t let the goofy name fool you — MailChimp is a powerful tool for managing mailing lists and setting up newsletters.

Trying out Google Apps with Pilot Mode

10. May 2010

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Switching over from a regular POP account to Google Apps GMail isn’t easy, but Google has some solutions that make it a little less painful. Learn about setting up a pilot program with Google Apps so you can test out their service before you commit.

Direct Traffic in Google Analytics

12. April 2010

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This is an attempt to find out the reason why the direct traffic metrics in Google Analytics are higher than expected.

Advanced Google Earth Tours – Part 1

7. April 2010

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In the next two blog posts, I’d like to show you how we went from a very trial-and-error approach to something fairly structured which we were able to reproduce for the five ocean tours currently on One Ocean Online.

Services for Building Online Forms

2. April 2010

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In this article, I test out a couple different services for creating online forms and surveys: Wufoo, and Formsite.

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Save Time by Providing Training Videos

An Intro to Tropo – Presentation

Drupal Webforms – States and Provinces

BrowserCMS – a Content Management System for Ruby on Rails

Wacky Telephony with Tropo

MailChimp Features – a brief rundown

Trying out MailChimp for Email Newsletters

Trying out Google Apps with Pilot Mode

Direct Traffic in Google Analytics

Advanced Google Earth Tours – Part 1

Services for Building Online Forms

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