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Wow, have I really not posted since December ‘07?  That’s an eternity, especially on the web.  Unfortunately, I needed to update my version of Wordpress to get things working correctly here, and it didn’t happen right away.  Additionally, Twitter allowed me to keep publishing, so this hasn’t been a priority.

Let me be totally honest: I was scared to make the upgrade without the help of my web developer friend.  I know the basics of web development, but mucking about with databases is past my comfort point.  I finally found time with my friend and we got everything rolling.  The process was surprisingly simple…I think I could probably even do it myself next time, and I certainly won’t let such a long gap go by without posting again!

So…what now?  I am determined to get back on track with posting, and not let myself get behind.  A few of my goals for the remainder of the blogging year:

• Document the process of recording the new Monsters are not Myths album.
• Tackle the challenging subject of “what is the role of a Community Ambassador/Manager/Evangelist, as I touched on in Defending the Community Ambassador.
• Clean up the blog. I’ve already started on this, but I’d like to do some SEO (which I’ve been dabbling in) and perhaps even move all my evanhamilton.com pages to Wordpress.
• Be impulsive. I want to post what’s at the top of my mind and get my small base of readers involved in the conversation, rather than mulling on a post for weeks.

For those that are still here, thanks for sticking around during the dry spell. Get ready for some rock’n'roll!

-Evan

I just discovered stikis.com, thanks to Mashable; I may be addicted.

I am constantly using real sticky notes around my cube. Some are on the desk. Some are on the monitor. Some are probably under all those papers to my left. Some travel home in my laptop to hopefully remind me of what I need to do in my personal life. Sometimes I just send emails to myself with tasks. I’ve even tried Outlook (uugh) Tasks. All these combine to some semblance of keeping on top of what I have to do, but it’s just awkward.

Stikis (theoretically) solves this by giving you a website that you put your sticky notes on. You no longer have to worry about being in your office or even on the right computer to know what you should be doing. Choose from five different colors (all nice except for the glaring yellow and green…perhaps that’s for those really important notes) and resize and move as you need to.

(names blurred to protect the corrupt)

I’ve put all my permanent, evolving stikis (the status of conversations with outside companies, my priorities for the week) in one color off to the right, personal stuff down on the left in another color, and left plenty of room to replace the roaming paper stickies that normally bury my office.

I’m digging it now. Will I actually be better organized after this? We’ll see…I’ll post again after a few weeks of use.

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