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I started out on the Internet working professionally with my first web site project in 1997 for the Navigators. Since then I have worked on many professional and personal web design projects.

I have worked with companies ranging from small local business to major corporations. I also have a background in training and sales, working with organizations like BestBuy, Circuit City, Clientlogic, CompUSA, Texas A&M University, Sony, Logitech, Helio, AMPED, and DirectTV.

As an active member of the Greenville, SC Jaycees, I frequently volunteer in the local community. I've even created unique events like PumpUpTheSite to help benefit charities and non-profits with web sites that need a facelift.

I also try to contribute to several open source software projects. I'm a passionate advocate for the open source model.

As a frequent public speaker I have the opportunity to talk on topics ranging from web design, usability to social media, blogging, Twitter and more.
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RT @jasontspencer @russelltripp Good point. More people need to learn the importance of un-friending snake oil salesmen & women ;) 6 hours ago
@lenawest good song 6 hours ago
hulu ad zone is cool but it's really really dumb to have to watch coke commercials while I'm watching other commercials... 11 hours ago
Other people aren't a good metric for what you should be doing. They're usually just holding you back. 13 hours ago
@thebrandbuilder you do owe me an answered email (or 2) :) 13 hours ago
Latitude is actually kinda cool but I think @thinkhammer is my only friend who actually updates it. 13 hours ago
I'm at Moe's Southwest Grill - http://bkite.com/35hhj 14 hours ago
RT @swagclub #smcgville on relevancy and bandannas. See mine, from the greatest black lab ever. Sophie. http://bit.ly/9UZvLA #xk 1265637209 18 hours ago
#smcgville @swagclub http://twitgoo.com/dcsa8 19 hours ago
@RebekahMaylene yeah probably :) at a meeting this morning and sharing :) 19 hours ago

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Re: Understanding Bit.ly Stats 2 months ago
It tracks robots & people so anyone following the link from your page or from elsewhere would count as a click. Unless your updates are private they can show up in a ton of places outside of the folks following you. 
 
Re: Fixing security issues for Twitter 3 months ago
I'd agree but the horsepower to check links would have to be pretty high. I suppose that they could use a service like Google and FireFox are using and check the URLs against that but it seems like it takes too long for a site to get picked up by those filters. I don't know what the solution is but seems like both Facebook and Twitter need to really get on the ball or they're going to start losing people. 
 
Re: Could You Help Me With a Project 3 months ago
to cute :) I watched! 
 
Re: Weekends and Afternoons Show the Highest Twitter CTRs 3 months ago
actually it's probably that it is so quiet on the weekends. less links flying around means more people clicking fewer links... 
 
Re: Lessons of Interfacing with a Giant Corporation 3 months ago
People don't have incentives to help you inside big companies. They don't hold any stake in you as a customer. In a small business every employee is well aware of the value of the customer and recognizes (for the most part) that how they treat that customer very directly impacts their job. In massive corporations the employees are so far removed from being responsible that they really just don't care.Growing a small business carefully is a great challenge. Joel Salatin has some great advice on the subject :) 
 
Re: Easily Exclude Pages from Menus – WordPress How To 3 months ago
Great! Glad I could help! 
 
Re: Free Marriage Coaching, an Idea and a Rant 3 months ago
Many people don't think that coaching is for them for some reason. We all seem to think that coaches are the angry guys on the sidelines of ball games but in fact there are many coaches behind a successful ball team. I guess most people are just not interested in making the most of life and are willing to sit back and wait for a blow out before they learn how to change a tire. 
 
Re: Easily Exclude Pages from Menus – WordPress How To 3 months ago
yep! you could wrap it in a if ( is_user_logged_in() ) statement. 
 
Re: Easily Exclude Pages from Menus – WordPress How To 5 months ago
OK so I checked out this plugin but it takes 300 lines of code to do what I did in 30...granted a lot of that code goes to making it compatible with older version of WordPress (not sure why anyone in their right mind would be running an old version but that's neither here nor there). But it just seems like a lot of the code is useless. I'm reading up and seeing how hard it would be to add a checkbox to control the option. 
 
Re: Easily Exclude Pages from Menus – WordPress How To 5 months ago
I figured there was a plugin to do this but plugins have a lot more overhead than I wanted for this project... 
 
Re: TwitViewer – How to Identify a Twitter Phishing Site 6 months ago
yeah, they can block the site from using the API but not from taking your password. There was some interesting stuff underneath that site going to other sites. Maybe Twitter can file spam black listing? or perhaps they could hit them with DCMA copyright infringement and get the site taken down? It's a problem that's not going to go away unless Twitter starts becoming less popular 
 
Re: TwitViewer – How to Identify a Twitter Phishing Site 6 months ago
Agreed but OAuth still has issues and a lot of twitter users have become accustomed to entering their password on sites like Twitpic. Not exactly Twitter's problem but they should have started out using OAuth or something similar from the first. Wouldn't eliminate it but would make it a little less common. At least for Facebook scams they have to copy the Facebook login page verbatim. Scams like this can just look like a cool new app and people will fall for it. 
 
Re: Facebook Dating Ad Hooks Up Married Man … With His Wife 6 months ago
another question after changing that setting, the language isn't clear. Am I changing it so that I don't show up on anyone else's profile or am I just changing it so that no one shows up on my profile? It's very ambiguous and I'd really like to know which way this works. 
 
Re: The Ribbit | Health Care Reform Study - costs will go up   BLOGPOLL 6 months ago
In typical government fashion it will probably end up costing ten times the projection because of fraud and unforeseen issues. I do think that it's important to see that these numbers are over a very long period of time, lots of folks seem to ignore that part. 
 
Re: The Ribbit | YOUR TAX DOLLARS:  18 million dollar web re-design for Recovery.gov ! 6 months ago
I'd like to see a line item breakdown of what it is they're getting for $18 million. And they're hiring a company that does Internet security to do it? Not my first choice in thinking that they know squat about web design. 
 
Re: Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit 7 months ago
I think it's time for an article about how Twitter doesn't support it's users. I can't win this contest without starting a new account, I've either been banned from appearing in search or Twitter is broken and they won't fix my account despite numerous posts to threads on getsatisfaction and the other twitter support site. It's getting ridiculous and to be outed from a contest like this unless I basically cheat really sucks too. 
 
Re: The Ribbit | Sanford Affair:  How are the governor’s religious comebacks playing with you? BLOGPOLL 7 months ago
It's fine to rely on your faith, I would encourage it. But using it as a PR tool in public isn't what it's there for. That may be the only thing that's helping you get through something but that doesn't make it a tool you use to deflect attention from your mistakes. 
 
Re: Facebook Vanity URLs are Cool, but They Can Also Ruin The Fun 7 months ago
she's in high school still...wouldn't surprise me that a classmate would think it's funny to pull something like that. Or a vindictive ex 
 
Re: The Ribbit | President Obama killed a fly! 7 months ago
yeah blog posts are fun and generate conversations like this but agree, the full blown media coverage is just dumb...but give the sheep what they want ;) 
 
Re: The Ribbit | President Obama killed a fly! 7 months ago
PETA is not an on the fence organization, you either like what they do and support them or you don't. There aren't a lot of people left in the middle.Those that are need extreme things like this to get their attention and force them to come down on one side or the other. PETA would be unheard of if they didn't do extreme stuff like this.I also have to agree with bill_free, was it a slow news day? ;) 
 
Re: The Ribbit | President Obama killed a fly! 7 months ago
it's just a publicity stunt for PETA. But the bug catcher is funny! 
 

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