My niece and daughter started blogs a few days ago and enlisted help from me since I have been blogging since 2009. I am very supportive of their new venture but, want to give them some staples to always keep in mind. We have very different personalities and I want them to be ready to deal with anything positive or negative that may come their way online. So here are my … [Read more...]
Planning Your Event
I recently attended a lunch & learn sponsored by The Durham Black Chamber of Commerce (DBCC) and the speaker was none other than Joye Speight owner of Virtue Events - Event Designer & Consultant. Joye specializes in weddings, social events, and corporate services. The focus of this particular meet up was to enlighten entrepreneurs about coordinating and hosting open … [Read more...]
Jael’s Tech Moment – Word Doc to PDF Conversion
I was in the process of designing a WordPress based website when I was asked to link downloadable documents to certain pages. The documents were in a Word format and needed to be converted into a PDF format. This is something that I hadn’t done before so I had to play around on the back end of WordPress for a moment and after three attempts that failed, I went to ask one of my … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Build an Online Support Group
I’ve been blogging since 2009. One of the reasons I think I’ve been successful at promoting my blog is that I joined a few different blogging and social media communities and started to network and build meaningful online relationships with other bloggers and social media enthusiasts. It definitely takes time and dedication but, if you organize your time wisely and stick to a … [Read more...]
Subscribe To Your Child’s Facebook Page
My son just recently had his thirteenth birthday and he asked me if he could start a Facebook page. He's been asking for over a year and it's always been NO up until this point. I did allow him to start a Bebo Page at age eleven that I monitored closely. However, he has an older sister that has a Facebook page and I allowed her to start her page at age thirteen. This is why … [Read more...]