m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

…to all who have updated their links to my blog. Thank you!!

So I’m finally on Facebook. I feel like the last one to the party. What’s cool? What’s not? What do I need to know now? Where do I go for more info?

So I figured out how to mark all feeds as read in netvibes (just click on the red number and a popup appears asking for confirmation to mark them). It was easy enough once I figured it out! I’m really enjoying the netvibes interface. I’ve been a long-time Bloglines user and I use Google Reader [...]

I stopped at the Apple Genius Bar today at lunch. Trev replaced my keyboard in short order (the letters were fading/off completely from some of the keys) and it was covered under the warranty. Can’t get much better than that! My email situation is horrendous . I can’t access it at work and haven’t had [...]

I’m a winner! I was just notified via email today that I won the Mizzou IT Teaching with Technology Award in the GTA category. I am so happy! Plus we had another winner from the English Department in the undergraduate teaching category! Now, the question: on what educational-related technology do I spend the $500? your [...]

Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips – self explanatory Jott – [via: LifeRemix/LifeDev] transcribes voice messages you phone in. Maybe you’ve already used it?? You can call in and send email, text messages, messages to a group, or even content to your blog or twitter. Looks cool. Note: the terms of service prohibit repeatedly calling [...]

FYI…I’m doing a little blog maintenance in case you notice a few old trackbacks reappearing. The posts were in my SQL database, but not showing up on the site under archives. It should be fixed soon. Update – Saturday, July 21, 2007 When I converted to WordPress from Greymatter I needed to categorize my posts. [...]

In perusing the job sites today, I realized that writing for search engine optimization is not a topic that I remember seeing in any of the technical writing textbooks I’ve reviewed over the past few years. When looking at jobs for web content managers, I realized how important writing for search engine optimization is for [...]

I’ve tried my SimpleTech portable hard drive in another computer (my parents’ pc). No luck. Next, I went to Radio Shack and purchased an external power supply, which I tried with my laptop and their pc. Still no luck. The good news with this is that RS will let me return the power supply. Now [...]

I’m in the midst of a reinstall of the OS on my laptop. It is not going so well. Luckily, I saved all my documents off onto CD because my new SimpleTech Portable HD is having problems. I hate to say failed because I’m hoping that the tech support will be able to help me [...]