davewirsching.com — My other blog

Have an Old Blog? Don’t Kill it Off!

November 14, 2008

Last summer, after a year of blogging, I switched from a wordpress.com blog to my own URL (at the same time I switched to Blogger, but that’s a story for another time).
The blog, ClearingTitle was fairly successful, with a decent pagerank, so I left it up. I posted a note that I had moved, and [...]

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More Pain for Newspapers?

November 11, 2008

Call me a Luddite, but I loved reading my morning newspaper. It was a morning habit – a retreat from the laptop. But I canceled the delivery of all but the Sunday edition yesterday.
Last week The Philadelphia Inquirer was late most days. Cutbacks in delivery service have killed reliability, and my ability [...]

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Who’s Your Transition Team?

November 10, 2008

The Presidential transition team is all over the news this week, as it should be. The transition sets the tone for the new administration, and is critical to early success. Transitions are important for businesses too.
Businesses of all sizes (and solo operations) can benefit from the transition mentality. What is a transition mentality? [...]

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Going Google

November 9, 2008

Flashback to 15 or so years ago…..

First came Outlook, bright, shiny, and new. My first email client. It opened a whole new world of communication and suddenly Microsoft had my attention. It wasn’t long before DOS based 1-2-3 was shown the door for the reasonably competent and graphical Excel. It took [...]

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