How often do you find yourself pondering "what-if" scenarios? I do this quite often. I try to make a point of stepping back from a situation and look at things from a different perspective. I am not always successful in remembering to do this, and even when I am, I don’t always glean some new thought from it. Even when your changed perspective doesn't show you something new, listening to others who may also have a different perspective, can provide some profound insights. To provide a bit of a … [Read more...] about Walkie Talkie Wins The War
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Racing Is Beautiful
If you haven’t heard yet, there is a new Desk community writing challenge running that has started just today. For me it is interesting because involves the use of images in my posts. If you have read my posts over the last month you may have read that I have eschewed the regular use of featured images as it was a reason I have had trouble publishing in the past. This is why the current 5 day challenge interests me. I am hoping to learn from others who are smarter than me about easily using … [Read more...] about Racing Is Beautiful
Thanks Desk PM
One of the things people love about being involved with something, as I have been with Desk App, is that sometimes you get a little swag out of the deal. It helps create a community feeling and serves as a badge of inclusion. Whatever, I just freaking love swag, I can’t help it. I am not really a horder, or a big time collector of anything, but I can always use a little more swag in my life. So, when John sent out some decals in a unique way, I had to participate. I didn’t just receive the … [Read more...] about Thanks Desk PM
2015 The Year to Feck Perfuction
That title caught you for a second didn’t it? Yeah, it caught me too when I first saw that written and even spoken. More on that in a moment. Welcome to day 9 of the Desk, 10 Days to a Better Blog assignment. As I have been writing about, 2015 is the year that I am bucking perfection. I don’t believe in resolutions, and I guess it has all the smell of a new years resolution, but I refuse to label this initiative… Oh crap, I just labeled, didn’t I? Whatever! All I know is, the last … [Read more...] about 2015 The Year to Feck Perfuction
My 2015 S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Time for things to get specific and my committment to be etched in stone. For nearly the last two weeks, or the whole of 2015, I have written about my writing. Specifically, I have detailed one of my biggest flaws that has literally locked me up for most of my life. Something that is so insidious and evil that even admitting it’s a problem I refused to believe it internally. I have outlined what some of the things I am doing to make and keep my commitment to my writing. That evil little … [Read more...] about My 2015 S.M.A.R.T. Goals
My Top Blog Posts 2014
Now that 2015 is well underway, I am looking back over my 2014 traffic for todays, 10 Days to a Better Blog assignment. I was not a consistent blogger in 2014. I was actually pretty hit or miss and, if I’m honest, probably spent more time working on the themes for my blog than actually blogging. I also probably spent more time with configurations for my blog than on writing as well. And this, ended up biting me in the backside as you will see below. I did have Google Analytics running … [Read more...] about My Top Blog Posts 2014
My Rubbish About Page
Today is all about me. No seriously, it is all about me and my “about” page here at demianseiler.com. Today’s assignment for the Desk, 10 Days to a Better Blog is to focus on our about page. This is really a great assignment for me as I have neglected this page for YEARS! No, it is worse than that. I didn’t just neglect it, I commit what I would consider a blogger sin. I put a few sentences as my about page content that was meant to be clever, but truly was just stupid. … [Read more...] about My Rubbish About Page
My Taxonomy Strategy
Another day, and another lesson post for my Desk, 10 Days to a Better Blog efforts. Today, I thought we might discuss something near and dear to my heart. A little something I call, chaotic organization. This is the practice of trying to wrangle posts into a logical taxonomy of categories, tags, and pages. This is a review process is something I have never really done in earnest, and certainly haven’t done since I restarted blogging this year. I just wanted to focus on…. wait for it…. just … [Read more...] about My Taxonomy Strategy
A Letter To The Desk Community
I go into almost everything I do, everything new and exciting, and wonder what will happen when the honeymoon is over? I am generally a pretty positive person, but time has shown me that I have a habit of letting time adjust my priorities regularly.The honeymoon phase ending, is a byproduct of me over-extending myself and because of this, changing what my priorities are regularly. I started off the new year with you group of wonderful people, and a post from John Saddington, and had my world … [Read more...] about A Letter To The Desk Community
Where I Write
Welcome to my day 3 assignment from the, Desk, 10 Day to a Better Blog, class that John Saddington is putting on. Today’s assignment continues, as you may have guessed, with the blogging theme and finding the best environment to get my writing done. This seems to be pretty straightforward discussion, but writing, much like the coding I do every day, can be massively affected by my environment. It is a very personal thing, and while you may find some similarities, is very different from person … [Read more...] about Where I Write