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I have read many reports on what the best time is to tweet but what about user interaction? If you share something, when is the most likely time people will see it and click on your link? The popular URL shortener Bit.ly has some interesting data to help answer this question. The infographic below also helps us understand times of the day [...]

Apple’s iOS operating system found on it’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices currently has been one of Apple’s hugest success innovations. iOS and Android are the leading mobile operating systems out there. So just how big is iOS? Tap Magazine created this nice infographic to help clue us in.

For those of you who use Google+, Google has announced that they will soon be offering vanity URLs. A vanity URL is the ability to have a short URL with your username at the end of it. For example, http://facebook.com/jeradhill instead of a long URL that is typically difficult to remember.
Typically, your Google+ URL looks something like [...]

Tonight I gave a talk on Social Media to the California Central Valley HDI Chapter and students at Modesto’s Institute of Technology. It was an honor to have such a wide range of people to talk to. When surveying the members on what they wanted to hear about in regards to social media I received such a wide range of response I decid [...]

College is not what you are promised it will be. It wasn’t 14 years ago when I decided to give it a try and it’s even more true today. We live in a different world these days. Everybody has a degree in something and most are not working in the field they spent 4+ years studying in.
Now I understand that you have to go to colle [...]

Over the past few years I have moved away from the industry standard of “owning” a copy of music produced by the artists I enjoy. It started with Apple’s iTunes. I started purchasing digital copies of music instead of CDs because it was cheaper. I didn’t necessarily want the whole artists album. I just wanted acces [...]

Modern society gives us plenty of reasons to not be happy, however it turns out that being happy is much easier to achieve than most think. Networx has put together a simple infographic which states 10 clues that may mean you’re truly happy right now.

For the most part, everything I have done in life I did myself. Of course there was some encouragement along the way, but all of my achievements came from my own hard work. I didn’t ride in on the coat tails of anyone else. The reason I got into website design was fulfill a need for a website. I wanted to start an online business an [...]

Part of the way I learn is trying to teach it to someone else. I find that challenging myself to reteach what I just figured out how to do writes it deeper into my brain. Besides that, I enjoy giving back. I have no formal education beyond high school. Everything I do for work and in many cases in life, I attained through some sort of res [...]

Today is a cool day. My oldest boy Liam turned two. The last two years has been pretty amazing and quite a challenge. Liam had a rough trip into this world with a some what traumatic delivery. Everything was fine after that until he broke his leg earlier this year. All of that aside, he is one amazing little boy. I really have no idea how [...]