Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, and Content Marketing

Attract, engage, and inspire your customers with an “Optimize and Socialize” content marketing strategy. Optimize is designed to give readers a practical approach to integrating search and social media optimization

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Strange Behavior Of WordPress Dashboard

Has anyone else been noticing a strange switch from three column layout to two column layout on your WordPress dashboard? It happens as you watch…I only noticed it in the

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Mountain Memories Wallpaper

Driving through the mountains of northwestern North Carolina in November of 2010 this image flashed past on my left. I had to turn around and drive back to snap a

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Mabry Mill Wallpaper

Mabry Mill is one of the most photographed sites on the Blue Ridge Parkway. On this day, a late afternoon drive back to North Carolina and our cabin, the sun

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Another Wallpaper

From one of my spring road trips. This field was different from most in that it was glowing golden. Probably not a good sign I now know.  

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Clearing the Mind for Creativity

Clearing the Mind for Creativity “In the beginner’s mind,” the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki once wrote, “there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind, there are only a few.” The

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Missing Miss Molly

If ever a time in the political life of this country needed a dose of Molly Ivins, this is it…Can’t you just imagine what she could have done with this

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Egghead and Blockheads – Maureen Dowd

So we’re choosing between the overintellectualized professor and blockheads boasting about their vacuity? The occupational hazard of democracy is know-nothing voters. It shouldn’t be know-nothing candidates. via Egghead and Blockheads

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