Why I’m Leaving Slack Communities

Why I'm Leaving Slack Communities

Slack was a useful tool until I became overwhelmed with the number of groups and communities that wanted to use Slack to communicate. At some point, Slack went from a productivity saver to a productivity killer for me. And I’m not the only one that has noticed issues. Read why I’m leaving Slack communities.

Tweetchat with MS Learning tomorrow

Have you heard about or seen the Born to Learn blog from MS Learning? Did you know that Microsoft certifications are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year? That’s one year older than Jonathan Kehayias (blog | @SQLPoolboy)! Tomorrow at 9AM ET I am taking part in a tweetchat with MS Learning where we want to help promote the new … Read more

How To: Lower Your Bounce Rate in Google Analytics

When faced with a no-win scenario you need to ask yourself “What Would James T. Kirk Do”? The answer, of course, is that you change the rules of the scenario in order to achieve your goal. Last fall I gave this blog a much needed makeover. I had a few goals in mind. One of … Read more

Think Klout Isn’t Using your Facebook stats? Think Again…

Last week I was doing some housecleaning of sorts with Google+. I had moved from the gmail.com account to using my Google domain account. As a result I noticed that my Klout score took a slight dip: No, not the big dip you see…the smaller dip just to the left. Turns out that the number of … Read more