Sometimes I have a problem slowing down. I feel like if I am not “busy” I am not being productive. But I think I have come to the realization that breaks are necessary. My family and I are heading out of town tomorrow for 2 days for a little vacation. We’re renting a condo up at Eagle Crest resort near Bend, OR. This will be the first vacation (apart from visiting family) we’ve taken since our Honeymoon almost 5 years ago.
Many companies (churches and ministries included) are anxious to build a great website, but have not thought about strategy. They have grandiose ideas about what their website will look like, but they have not thought about the purpose behind the website.
There are dozens of great Twitter applications on the market today. Many of them have started to integrate support for other social media services. One of the new kids on the blog is a Mac application called Socialite. Socialite is fully featured social media app that gives the old school apps a run for their money.
WordPress is the application I use to power most of the websites I build. In fact, unless a client requires me to use another system, I use WordPress exclusively. There are a few great applications out there, but in my opinion WordPress is the best. Here’s why:
I regularly use Time Machine to backup my files to an external hard drive. This is great if my laptop hard drive fails, but what happens if there is a fire and my external drive gets burned up along with my laptop? What happens if a thief breaks in and takes everything? I would lose all my pictures of my family. All my client work would be lost! Every song I have written, every song I have purchased. It would all be gone. For some people, this might not be a big deal. But to me, that would be epic. Luckily, Backblaze is a great (affordable) option to keep my data backed up and secure online.
