by gregoryheller | Dec 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Last week I emptied my inbox completely. And from this point forward I pledge (to myself I guess) that I will only “check” email if I am going to “deal” with my email. Every email that lands in my inbox and is not filtered into a specific mailbox will be dealt with: archived, deleted, responded to. I was motivated to this undertaking and commitment by a blog post, Email = EFAIL, I learned of via Twitter. I’m not going to repeat all the pearls of wisdom from that article, I recommend that you read it. After re-tweeting the article, Aaron pointed me to Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero talk, which in turn lead me to the 43 Folders Inbox Zero series which I am working my way through. Let me share my new strategy: I will check email only when I have the time to review it My inbox only shows unread messages Filters will move read mail out of my inbox after 3 days and into the appropriate folder if I don’t do it first. I am using 3 flags: ToDo, Important, Later and associated saved searches so that I can pull up these specific lists. The other thing that I plan on doing is transitioning even more towards using Delicious and Twitter to share links with people rather than using email. I encourage others to do the same. I’ll let you know how it goes over the coming weeks. And please post any links or resources or your own strategies for dealing with email overload. Find out more in Email Management Strategy Phase 2: IMAP with Gmail iPhone...
by gregoryheller | Dec 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
In Part II of Creating An SEO Strategy, Ron focused on content and keywords. But there is more to content than just the keywords. The markup and code underneath can make your content even more attractive to search engines and help your visitors find what they are looking for faster. The “Code” component of an SEO strategy will be split into two articles; this first is about the HTML Markup that you may use, or your <acronym=”What You See Is What You Get”>WYSIWYG editor may help you write. The second, Part 4 in the series will cover the underlying code of your website, and in this case, we’ll focus on some SEO tips and resources for Drupal. SEO Optimized Content Markup: Using HTML Tags HTML is a markup language. That means it’s marking up your content in order to display it a certain way on the web. If you use Microsoft Word or OpenOffice to create documents you know you can highlight a word and click the B button to make it bold (or “strong”). On the web there are special tags used to tell the browser to display text as bold (or as a page heading, a list item, or link). Search engines assume that if you used a certain tag that there is an inherent meaning in it. A word that is bold using the or tags must be more important or have more emphasis than a word that is not bold. Properly coding your site helps the search engines attach this second level of meaning to your copy. Therefore, there are a number of tags you...
by gregoryheller | Dec 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
<p>Over the past few weeks, in fits and starts, I have made some updates to this site. The goal is not so much to generate new content here at GregoryHeller.com, but rather to aggregate all the content I create on other sites. So you will see lots of lists of content coming in from places like Delicious, Twitter, Tumblr, CivicActions.com, Flickr, Dopplr, and probably a few other places too! </p> <p>You can find and follow me on those sites, or check in here every once in a while for an update.</p> <p>One of these days I will upgrade this site to Drupal 6. But that is going to wait for...
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