April 2008 - Posts
When I enabled the auto reply bot for TFF Ratio on Twitter, people immediately started having fun with it saying things like "@TFFRatio, how much to you love me" and "@TFFRatio - hit me". Recently, though, a couple of Tweeps (Dan Rigsby - @danrigsby and Rick Kierner - @rkierner in particular) have taken the TFF Ratio request to a whole new level, practically making it an art form. Following are some of the best TFF Ratio requests (in my opinion) over the last couple of weeks in no particular order...
Last week I had an IM conversation with a friend who was curious about Graffiti . I saved the conversation because I thought both the discussion and the links might be useful for others interested in Graffiti, too. I did take some liberties with the following text: names were changed to protect the innocent, some irrelevant content was removed, and some of the content was edited for brevity. Without further ado... FriendX : I'm trying to determine what CMS engine I should use for my new site, FriendX...
I found out last week that my boss, Rob Howard, presented "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for ASP.NET Developers" at DevConnections just a few days after I had done my first presentation of "SEO for ASP.NET Developers" at Central Ohio Day of .NET . The two of us doing a presentation on the same topic, at the same time, with the same title is actually pure coincidence. However, after looking through Rob's slide deck and talking with him a little I found that our two presentations actually work well...
The link below is to my PowerPoint slide deck for my "SEO for ASP.NET Developers" presentation that I've already given at Central Ohio Day of .NET and Indianapolis Code Camp. I will be giving the same presentation at both the Western Michigan Day of .NET (Grand Rapids, May 10th) and Cleveland Day of .NET (May 19th) and probably at Lansing Day of .NET as well. SEO for ASP.NET Developers - Slide Deck Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
Andy Erickson (Twitter: axerickson ) posted an awesome video this evening of some clips he shot at the Central Ohio Day of .NET this past Saturday. He really captured the spirit of the event. Check it out on his blog here . Bonus: in the video you can see Leon's funny hat and me pimping my Telligent sweatshirt, FTW! Great job, Andy. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
I was asked a couple of questions during my SEO for ASP.NET Developers presentation that I didn't have an answer for at the time. Q. What is the maximum length for the Meta Description field for a web page? A. I've read in several places over the years that 260 (or 255) is the maximum character for the Meta Description, but that you should strive for closer to 150 characters because search engines ignore anything over that. However, this evening I found an "official" answer on the Google Webmaster...
A gentleman asked me today during the setup time of my SEO for ASP.NET Developers presentation at Central Ohio Day of .NET about changes to theming in Community Server 2008. I said that I had just recently seen a couple of posts from Ben Tiedt show up in my feed reader about that very topic but that I had not read them yet. It looks like Ben is doing a series of posts about themes in CS2008, you can catch the introduction and links to the other articles here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
Tonight I presented "What's new in VS2008 for ASP.NET" for our Heroes Happen Here Community Launch at CINNUG . From the start anything that could go wrong did go wrong. As my friend, Joe Wirtley , put it "I'm not going to lie to you, it was rough". The presentation should have been a good one. The material was good. I was well prepared. I had a few planned funny comments (at least I thought they were funny). And the presentation was almost completely all demo with only spent about 3 minutes in slides...