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Reflections About Love And Life

June 23, 2019

A few months ago my nephew Diego and his fiancée Monica asked me to officiate their wedding. Here are the remarks I presented at their marriage ceremony on 6/21/19.

Filed Under: Featured, Life

New York City Dawn

Want to Get Big? Think Small. And Get Your Brutal On.

March 9, 2017

It’s all about ability and execution. This is a challenge to be brutally honest, brutally direct and brutally focused on getting things done right.

Filed Under: Business, Featured, Marketing

Wordpress Automatically Set Image Alt Text

Automatically Set the WordPress Image Title, Alt-Text & Other Meta

March 6, 2017

By default, images uploaded into WordPress will get a Title based on the literal filename and no Alt-Text at all. Which is bad for SEO. Here’s a way to do it better – and automatically.

Filed Under: WordPress

Genesis Infinity Pro With Overlay

Add Front Page Image Overlays to Genesis Infinity Pro

February 28, 2017

The Genesis Infinity Pro theme for WordPress does not include overlays on the front page background images by default. No problem, here’s how to add your own using CSS.

Filed Under: Genesis

Scott Brinker’s Marketing Technology Supergraphic 2016

The Marketing Technology Landscape 2016: A Call to Basics

September 28, 2016

Once again, Scott Brinker published his annual Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic for 2016. It’s awesome but I wonder, have we finally reached the tipping point of mar-tech overload? Let’s talk about the basics.

Filed Under: Featured, Marketing

The 2016 Open Technology for Life Workshop in Havana, Cuba

March 21, 2016

The Cuban Ministry of Higher Education announced it will host the first annual Open Technology Workshop to foster collaboration, learning and making.

Filed Under: Business, Featured, Technology

Christ’s Descent into Hell

Seven (Plus One) Suggestions for Software Success

January 5, 2016

Studies show that more often than not, software projects result in a proverbial descent into hell. Here are “7S+1” suggestions that might help.

Filed Under: Business, Featured, Marketing

WordPress 4.4 Is Here With Embeds, Term Meta and REST API

December 12, 2015

WordPress released Version 4.4, named “Clifford” in honor of trumpeter Clifford Brown, with great new features to better display, embed and integrate content.

Filed Under: Marketing, Technology

PHP 7: The Easiest WordPress Speed Increase You Can Get

December 5, 2015

PHP 7 enables WordPress to run almost twice as fast. Your website visitors will like that, and your SEO rankings might too.

Filed Under: WordPress

The iPad Pro is a Really Big and Really Fast iPad. That’s All.

December 1, 2015

A week ago I ponied up and bought the iPad Pro. But two days later the Pro went back to the Apple Store for a refund. What happened?

Filed Under: Technology

Apple Store - 5th Ave NYC

A Business is a Value an Engagement Delivery System

November 14, 2015

The old McKinsey notions about value delivery still matter. And the current discussions going on everywhere around customer experience certainly matter. But there’s one more thing we can layer on top of all that: let’s talk about customer engagement.

Filed Under: Featured, Marketing

The iPhone 6s

The iPhone 6s: A Dissenting Opinion

November 1, 2015

Apple’s latest iPhone is here! How good is it? According to Apple and everyone else the 6s is the best iPhone ever. I agree – but not entirely.

Filed Under: Technology

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