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Merry Christmas Everyone!

The Smith Family wishes you all a happy holiday season

This Christmas will be a special Christmas for me. It will be the first Christmas ever where I had my four year old, and my other two kids with me on Christmas morning! I’m all overjoyed inside!

We hope you get to spend some extra time with family this year.  We wish peace prosperity and happiness in the upcoming year.

When the white House Callled, I answered, Even if it was on April 1st!

I got the call this morning…

I’ve been saying for a long time “they should just put me in charge…”  Last year when I met the President he was quite impressed with my credentials and ideas.  This morning I finally got the call.

Moving Fast

I’ll be leaving for Washing  D.C. tomorrow morning.  things are like a madhouse hear.  I’ve been trying to call everyone personally to say my goodbyes, but there;’s so many calls to make and I still have to pack all my things and my computers.

They’ve also already put me to work.  My first assignment is to decide what my first work should be so to speak.  I have a stack of reports about a mile high I’m supposed to read.  Most of them are written by very important people about very important things.  I’m not going to talk about any of the subjects right now though as I haven’t got a great handle on what I can discuss and what I can’t.  There’ll be a press conference tomorrow afternoon ( I still have to get a new suit ), so I better figure out something that I can speak about by then!

We also have a new quest in the house, at least until I get settled in Washington.  A Secret Service agent.  He’s here to guard this huge stack of papers, not me.   I’m not that valuable yet I suppose.  I feel for him, that’s got to be a boring job.

Well, I’m going to stop writing and  get moving because I’ve so much to do.  If I haven’t called you to say goodbye, it’s not because I don’t love you, it’s because I just ran out of time!

Hello everyone.  I’d like to welcome all the new readers and subscribers we’ve gained in the last month.

We realize the comments were approved kinda slowly the first go around.  We were a little worried at first but after 30 days, we have exceeded our goals of new subscribers by 200%!

We’ve made some changes to our comment approval processes, so you should notice a huge difference in approval times.  Down to less than 48 hours is the goal.

We’re reading each and every comment that’s left here.  We’re deciding whether it’s a legit comment or if it was some automated words spit out on millions of blogs across the world by a “comment bot”.  this process was a bit new to us as we’ve never had this kind of volume before.  If we’ve rejected your comment, we’re sorry.  Please try again.  We believe that we’ll be able to pick out the human made entries 90% or more.  Once you’ve been established you’re comments can get auto approved after your first one is approved.

Another way to get faster and more consistent approval of comments is to use your Gravatar or Comment Luv ID when filling out the comment form.  CommentLuv may be strange to those of you not in the blogging industry, but it, combined with “DoFollow” are ways of repaying those who take the time and effort to write thoughtful comments to the articles in on this blog.

How is giving a link helping someone, and what’s different about a DoFollow link?  Well this page on DoFollow may help.  For those of you who already know It’s probably still a good idea to check it out every know and then as we will announce our comment policy s soon as we can shape it into words on the DoFollow page.

I’ve never written about a discussion on LinkedIn.com before, but this one is a whopper.  A question was posed.  If you had to choose between two candidates for a job, one with a high IQ and one years experience, the other with an average IQ and 10 years experience, and everything else the same, which would you choose.

As Project Managers I find it a conversation we all should read.  I personally found it quite enlightening and yes, even life affirming.  You see I’m one of these people with a really high IQ.

This conversation is a fine example of how all discussion should be.  It’s a conversation to hold up and say:  “This is one of the good things about Social Networking.”  sure there was plenty of disagreement and even embarrassing secrets that came out, but never did it to a personal level, nor was any rhetoric ever introduced.

Here are some of the things I’ve learned about HR Staff and my  fellow Project Managers from the conversation on Linked in:

Continue reading “Intelligence vs Experience” »

I just published another Florida focused web site. This isn’t tightly focused on St. Petersburg but instead on the general FL market. And yes, to a search engine, FL is different than Florida, but their getting lots better. In fact if you search for most terms using FL, instead of Florida, just about everything you get will have the word Florida bolded in the descriptions and the url’s as well as the rare instances of the “word” FL. It’s good that that the SE’s are catching on more and more to the way people write and search. I’m guessing the competition from Bing has had a lot of influence on a lot of the fixes to long time flaws Google has made recently. Including the one where incoming links aren’t so important anymore and the words on the page are more important.

Anyway the new web site is targeting the Fl Fishing market, Continue reading “New FL Web Site Design – FL Fishing TV Hobby Site” »