technology

new look again

hosting provider finally hooked me up with a word press upgrade. i’d been too chicken to upgrade it myself because i nuked the last blog i tried to do that with. but now that i’m upgraded, i can try out the latest themes and widgets. how’s this one?

free chapter site hosting on bluephi.net

i threw this out a while ago on thecause1914, but didn’t get much response. i really feel this is a service the folks running pbs1914.org should offer and with Yahoo!’s recent announcement to close their free Geocities hosting service by October, i know quite a few of you may be looking to relocate your chapter sites elsewhere. so here’s the deal, i’ll host your chapter site free of charge. all i ask of you is a link back to bluephi.net. i’ll give you your own subdomain: chapter.bluephi.net. we’ll have to talk specifics about who’s got access and how much you’ll be able to update on your own. if you’re interested, hit me up.

bluephi.net turns 3

it’s hard to believe that i’ve been running this site in its current form for 3 years now. i just now looked back at the first post and realized that i’d written it 3 years ago yesterday. it reminded me of one of the reasons why i started blogging – to evangelize technology solutions to other Sigma webmasters and hope to create various web goodies you can use on your sites.

the first thing i did when i was asked to be a supporting officer was to establish my identity online. i went out and found pockets of active Sigma communities and i started participating, posting, introducing myself and so on getting my name out to get an idea of who’s who in Sigma online. it was then that i realized that the national site was missing out on a huge opportunity in not hosting its own social network and driving all that activity to pbs1914.org.

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