My little brother’s wife gave birth today to my first nephew! Hooray!
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Now that my final exams are behind me, I am re-focusing my energy on cleaning and organizing, well, everything!
I am notoriously disastrous when it comes to keeping up with, well, just about everything, so, I have to force myself to get organized. When I do, I’m so happy. Like deliriously happy. Then I always end up saying to myself, “why didn’t I do that sooner?” So, here I am again, doing the same routine, trying to organize and clean-up my spaces.
Now that I’m a proud new young fresh blogger I’ve gone and added yet another thing for me to have to organize, my online stuff! Ugh. Oh, well, better dig in, not getting any younger here.
So, I decided to tackle some WordPress organizing. Since they say that your blog is like your living room, I figured I’d start there (or here, rather, ahem, onward with the tutorial!) So, into the WordPress Codex I went, head first and hoping for the best. And, not to disappoint me, they have great resources, lots of resources. So many in fact I could probably start a blog just to talk about everything WordPress… haha, there I go again adding work for myself.
Anyway, I ran across this video tutorial and thought it gave an excellent explanation of content maps. You know that thing you carry around with you telling you where you’re supposed to go instead of wandering around exploring everything and then complaining that you’re never getting anything done? Yup, that one!
I, tragically, made some of those organizing mistakes that he talks about, so I too will be joining you in revising my site to reflect those more logical structures. Now I know why those developers hate us so much. We literally cause their brains “does not compute” errors. Oops, sorry about that guys!
Enjoy!
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Dear TinyChat,
You Suck.
Last night I was checking my Facebook and Twitter accounts and saw that Pete Cashmore (@mashable) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) were having a conversation together hosted by some PR lady (sorry, I forgot her name!) and I had the most excruciatingly bad time with your product.
Whenever Gary or Pete would try to speak, the video would freeze up. People were in the chatroom making jokes about robot movements and Tourette’s. It was not amusing to deal with such choppy video. I have a few recommendations for you and your video-happy buddies:
- A video and chat product does no one any good if it does not work smoothly.
- Annoyed participants, both speakers and chatroom attendees, tend to get irritable, and fast. Bad for you. Really bad for you if they have a soapbox, like a blog, and decide to use it. Like me
- Do NOT release a product from BETA unless it works WELL 99.9% of the time. When it doesn’t work, show us a “fail whale” type thing. Something humorous to distract us from hating your guts for wasting our time. (Haha, look, those little birds are trying to hold up that big ‘ole whale, haha.)
- If I have to put up with choppy video streaming because you say, “this is a free service” then I say, “I’ll pay to NOT deal with choppy streams!”
- I can’t believe I’m saying this, but uStream is kicking your butt. I know, that’s a low blow, but, hey, you need to fix your stuff, fast, or you will lose fans – and fast.
- If video interactive systems are not flawless, slap BETA back on it and fix the problems. If a video takes more time to load than the length of the video or makes the speakers sound like robots (“Origato Mr. Vay-ner-chuk?”) then you have a serious problem. Market share is gained or lost by the responsiveness of the company to correct an error.
- Think like an entrepreneur: fix it fast, or die trying. Hustle matters, now more than ever, and you can’t afford to miss out on influencers, like me, who get ticked enough with you to write about you. Bad press is bad press is bad press. Don’t be inflexible, fix the problem. Make me sing your praises. Really, I want to. You’re just making it impossible right now. Understand?
Thanks for listening.
Your Pal,
Ryan.
Until next time.
Peace.
-Ryan.
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