The Evolution Of Steven-Sanders Dot Com

It's been a pretty good length of time since I first began this blog, and my life has gone in one different direction after another.  My blog both suffering an excelling at each new turn, so I thought it only right that I give my blog a total makeover, once again, as I come back to join my fellow bloggers and friends in this cyber-world we call home. I struggled for about a month trying to come up with a new look.  I wanted something more pr...

2009 was one hell of a year.  Beginning with the Ice Storm we'll never forget, which took me out of blogging for over a month, the loss of my job in March, which took me out of blogging for a month or so, the BlogHer conference in Chicago, which revitalized my blogging, IzeaFest in sunny Orlando Florida, with some of the greatest people on earth, which made me realize just how much I love blogging, my appearance on the Doterati "Blog Marketing D...

I was lucky enough to get an invitation to Google Wave from a friend of mine, and in the last couple of days, I've been exploring the features it contains. While I'm not extremely impressed with it yet, I can foresee some big uses for Google Wave coming about. 1. Forum Integration With Google Wave's ability to imbed Waves into existing websites and allow for comments within each embedded wave, this could be a very awesome change for forums. ...

The chances that you've heard of IzeaFest are probably pretty good, especially if you've been reading this blog, but you've probably not heard of the "Blog Marketing Demystified" event sponsored by Doterati that will be going on a few hours before you board the bus for the IzeaFest Howl-O-Scream kickoff party. I'll be speaking on this panel, so come check it out.  I'd love to meet you, no matter how big or small of a blogger you are.  I love m...

According to the Wordpress development team: "Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, bu...

You may have noticed a few changes happening to my blog over the past couple of weeks.  It seems after my trip to Blogher I've been interested in doing some sprucing up of a few parts of my blog that were a little boring. The "Most Popular Posts" section never changed, so I replaced it with a new section called "Other Interesting Posts" that randomly displays posts from my blog.  I thought this would keep your reading selection as fresh as ...

I left BlogHer 2009 in Chicago a little over a week ago with more than just a car-load of swag bags.  I left with some knowlege.  Knowlege I got from the best session at BlogHer... the "Gadgets of Blogging" session. The "Gadgets" session covered most of your basic gadgets you would use for blogging, whether at home or on the go, but it also briefly touched on some more advanced things, like specific products that may be better if you wanted ...

It's been said many times in passing remarks that Twitter is a better search tool than Google, and it seems like Twitter is taking those comments to heart. They've changed their homepage with the main focus on search. I think Twitter has big advantages over Google: The time it takes to index something of importance is just as fast as someone can type it. Google uses algorithms to index content.  Twitter uses real people that don't ca...

In getting ready to attend Blogher for the first time, and knowing that it is a woman's conference, I found myself getting really nervous.  Wondering how I would be judged.  Wondering if I would be tagged as that pervert that showed up to look at all the girl's boobs, or that guy that was so clueless he showed up to the wrong conference. I was hoping to get away with just letting them think I came to support my wife and help watch the baby.Â...

In the world of blogging, we all know the higher your ranking in the search engines, the more traffic you tend to bring in.  We also know that one of the ways to increase your ranking is by creating content.  The more content you have, the more "pages" you have, the higher you will rank (of course backlinks also play a role - but I only want to focus on your content at this point). But creating content has always been a long and sometimes te...

A month or so ago Izea made a huge announcement that everyone going to IzeaFest would want to show up around mid-afternoon or a little before on the Thursday before IzeaFest because a major secret surprise was going to be happening for those that showed up. I am super-excited to be one of the very first to let the cat out of the bag and introduce you to what the super-secret event is going to be. And since you've been waiting so long for it al...

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