Protected: Elise Rosemary Nelson

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Preserve your Story with "Print My Blog" WordPress Plugin

3 minute readWill your blog survive the Digital Dark Age? Print My Blog is a WordPress Plugin aimed at helping your blog’s content be around for future generations.

Why I Blog

2 minute readWhy do I bother writing down my experiences, opinions, and things I’ve learned? Here’s some thoughts: Share Knowledge It always bugs me when there is “common knowledge” that isn’t available online. When you know something and its not available online, you’re forcing everyone else to relearn it the hard way. Sharing it with others just […]

The Really Easy Way to Make a WordPress Plugin Translation-Ready

3 minute readMaking a WordPress plugin available in a user’s preferred language used to be more complicated. Now it’s really easy. I want to share the up-to-date way (as of 2019) to get your plugin ready for translating into everyone’s languages. I’ll skip the complexities of translations and get right to it. 1. Set Your Plugin’s Minimum […]

Highlights from "It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy at Work"

5 minute readThese are my highlights from the book “It Doesn’t Have To be Crazy at Work” by Fried, Jason; Hansson and David Heinemeier, owners of BaseCamp. Redefining Productivity We don’t believe in busyness at Basecamp. We believe in effectiveness. How little can we do? How much can we cut out? Instead of adding to-dos, we add […]

Protected: Improving Online Team Decision-Making and Discussion

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Gratitude Journal December 2018

< 1 minute read2-year-old creativity. Celeste created the above masterpiece. And it’s keeping her amused while I type this on my phone. Brownies. I love the saturated fatness and sugaryness of brownies. Peppermint tea. Amanda and I don’t get around to drinking it basically ever, because the kids would have all the emotions towards it (“I want it!”, […]

Welcome, Old Blogspot Posts

5 minute readHow and Why I Migrated from Blogspot to WordPress.com.

Ways to Help People Without Actually Doing Anything (and Why They’re Actually Better)

3 minute readWhen we think of ways to help or serve others, we tend to narrowly think of only physical service: giving someone money, helping mow a lawn, or volunteering at a soup kitchen. But physical service is only one of many ways to help others. There are so many other important ways to serve, and if […]

Gratitude Journal October 2018

2 minute readTo be honest, it’s feeling like a bit of a stretch to think of what I’m grateful for right now. But that’s totally a result of being lazy about counting my many, many blessings, not because I have nothing to be grateful for. The idea to keep a gratitude journal. Otherwise, I simply don’t take […]