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2012-11-09 14:29:02 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

I have big news. I'll be starting as the Community Manager at FeedBlitz.com on Monday. A real job, in my field! 

2012-11-07 15:22:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So this made my day: 
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2012/11/08/blogging-in-brief-engagement-tools-app-auctions-and-brutal-realism/

2012-11-01 19:42:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here we go. Every year I invite a bunch of friends over, we cook, we take pictures, and then I turn it into a series that helps people get ready for Thanksgiving. Today? We launch The Countdown to Turkey Day 2012

2012-10-19 17:51:56 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Okay and with that out of the way, let's get back to food.

I like food. 

Thanksgiving is coming up and this year the recipes will have a bit of an Italian-American twist to them (next week I'm sharing a risotto), but to get there we have to start with stock. What's better than plain turkey stock? Stock made from roast turkey necks or wings.

2012-10-19 17:32:37 (26 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Colin Walker , +Paul Reynolds , and +Michael Carnell  are frigging awesome.  Thanks to Colin for giving me the code to get the real url of the page, thanks to Paul for giving me this code which would work in most wordpress sites: http://pastebin.com/TL5qJ2kx   I run my wordpress site with Thesis, so I just created a function that looks like this:

/*stupid canonical stuff */
function canonical() {
  $request = 'http://'.$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  $chunks = parse_url($request);  
  if (strlen($chunks['query']) > 0) echo '<link rel="canonical" href="'.get_permalink().'"/>';
}
add_action('wp_head', 'canonical');
/*end stupid canonical stuff */

and thanks to Michael for also bouncing suggestions with me in email.

Now,hopefully... more »

2012-10-19 15:40:47 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I need some rel="canonical" help. How do I set that up to fix the bazillion duplicate pages wordpress mobile switcher created.I know the string is ?wpmp_&wpmp I just don't know how to make google ignore ALL the urls that go http://mydomain.com/whatever/?wpmp__&wpmp_ I found that Google has indexed thousands of these pages.

2012-10-16 16:19:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

yum

2012-10-16 13:38:39 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

As a successful* blogger I get asked a lot of, "Can I pick your brain, I want to start my own" kind of questions. My good friend +Melanie Nelson created  http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/ a few years ago and that's where I point people rather than getting involved in hours of email exchanges that generally have me repeating the same info. Maybe you'll find it useful for the same thing.
*successful in some eyes, not necessarily even my own. 

2012-10-09 13:54:59 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So why do sites like woot.com run their affiliate programs through cj.com? Why not through Amazon? I've had great experience w/ Amazon and a hard time doing much at all through what I find to be a very time consuming process w/ cj.com. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong? (Quite possibly)

2012-10-09 13:47:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Some tips on getting your posts shared by +Adam Avitable over at +Type-A Parent this morning. 

2012-10-09 11:10:03 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Okay, so it takes me 47 seconds to explain the 5 second t-shirt fold. 

2012-10-05 15:47:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hey if you have a recipe that calls for cooked chicken or turkey, link it here, please. (I'm looking for recipes you have shared to your own sites) I'm building a Pinterest board for project for a client. Pinterest's search functionality blows and I'm really mad at them for pulling the API because my app would be perfect for this need right now. But that is a whole other story, right +Paul Reynolds 

2012-10-05 13:45:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Corrupting my friends one TWSS at a time +Phillip Guyton 

2012-10-05 13:20:12 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Out of curiosity under what heading to people like myself fall? I left the restaurant industry in 2003 during a complicated pregnancy. The cost of childcare was too high for me to justify returning to work (would have paid more in childcare than I could have brought in). So we struggled through on one income. I launched Home Ec 101 in 2007, which brings in some, growing income. I picked up a part time job (in the neighborhood of 35 hours a week, so not sure how part time it is) in a pub, this is after a 9 year hiatus from food and bev. I do contract style work here and there as I can find it. I have been looking for a solid job for over a year.
Oh and I have a start up, SpinPicks.
So other than tired and broke, what am I?

2012-10-05 12:02:35 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

There +Michael Carnell  are you happy? It's not going to be my profile pic here, that would make it show up as my author pic all over the web... +Simon Ashton  are you happy? I finally got around to fixing that.

2012-10-03 12:47:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

This probably breaks all the G+ etiquette, but it makes me giggle. Since Facebook edgerank is making interaction with pages difficult, I've been using meme generators to come up with new pictures for the daily chores on the Home-Ec101 fanpage. I'm kind of proud of this one: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151186786614015&set=a.130659354014.105334.121050659014&type=1 

2012-10-02 16:25:59 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

2012-09-14 12:42:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Teeny little giveaway on Home Ec today 

2012-09-13 19:01:10 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Yes, +***** & +Janet Edens I'll happily wear your shirt for you (feel free to share the link to the store)

2012-09-13 18:05:23 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Because I'm easily amused.

2012-09-13 12:53:05 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

I know I've been MIA over the past few months. Things have been crazy busy since I started working "part time" (it's closer to full) outside of the home in a local, Irish pub. I do this to help bootstrap my startup. Speaking of my startup, I had the fantastic opportunity to appear on This Week in Startups and pitch to +Jason Calacanis. My segment starts at 29:50 - Startups - Shark Tank Takeover - TWiST #287 other than being obviously nervous, I think I did okay. Thank you so much for your encouragement +Doriano Paisano Carta 

2012-04-26 14:03:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Pinterest users: Watch what you are clicking. While working on SpinPicks today I found a site that tried to get me to download a "Pinterest tool" look at the url: pintrerets . com

2012-04-21 15:00:46 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Yay +Heather Solos and +Paul Reynolds

2012-04-11 18:50:30 (24 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Dear Gmail,
Why are you crashing my Chrome browser? That doesn't even make sense.
Facebook crashing Chrome? I get that; I can even understand why Google would subtly nudge me away. But this? Unacceptable. Fix it.
Love,
Me

2012-04-10 13:45:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I still write on HE101. I just forget to mention it

2012-04-03 16:57:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Latest from the SpinPicks World Headquarters

2012-04-02 19:57:14 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Wonder why I've been scarce? I've been working on +SpinPicks with +Paul Reynolds and we're growing quickly.

2012-03-27 13:57:15 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I work part-time in an Irish pub. The other day a customer asked, in all seriousness, if we had sriracha.

2012-03-24 11:59:27 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Good morning (afternoon or evening, if you must). How are you?

2012-03-22 11:54:45 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I need an Android App for monitoring Google Analytics. gAnalytics isn't cutting it and there doesn't seem to be an official app (which doesn't make sense, Google).

2012-03-22 11:07:14 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I know my posts have been a bit self-focused (centered?) lately and I apologize for that. I think it's due in part to the excitement of being involved in a start up that appears to be taking off. Right now I'm just so grateful that I have a fun part time job that helps me not obsess over the numbers (of either Home Ec 101 or SpinPicks). Even though the numbers are looking pretty dang right now, there would still be obsessing.

Just as an aside, as wonderful as they are, the happy hour crowd at the pub where I work with a few exceptions, doesn't read the Huffington Post, so it made it a little awkward trying to explain my excitement.

I don't know if or when things "slow down" or maybe I just find a new equilibrium in which I don't feel as though I'm just trying to keep my head above water. All I know is that the past couple of weeks have been exciting... more »

2012-03-20 23:51:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Have you used the amazing new app called Spin Picks? It's featured at #3 on 11 Pinterest Apps And Tools To Enhance Your Pinning Experience http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/pinterest-apps-and-tools-to-enhance-your-pinning-experience_n_1368004.html#s794787&title=SpinPicks Congratulations to my friend +Heather Solos and her cohort Paul (whose name I should know -- I want to meet this guy!).

2012-03-19 21:51:08 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

So. . . how are you?

2012-03-19 19:02:04 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://blog.spinpicks.com/spin-me-right-round-baby-right-round/

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