• Website vs Social Media - Why You Shouldn't Depend on Social Media Alone

    Website vs Social Media: Why You Shouldn’t Depend on Social Media Alone

    Ah yes, the ongoing debate of website vs. social media for building your online presence. Nearly everyone uses social media these days – athletes, celebrity chefs, the queen of England, even your great aunt Helen. Many business owners jump on a social media platform because that’s where all the people…
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  • Lunch & Build - a blogging workshop - May 26, 2017 at 10AM - noon - Open Sky Life

    Announcing "Launch & Build: A Blogging Workshop"

    I am so very pleased to announce our upcoming hands-on blogging workshop. This small group event will not only focus on the technical setup and structures of your blog, but will also be a time of brainstorming, encouragement and support as you begin expressing yourself online. Resourcing Our Visions Space…
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    The Struggle is Real: Growing from Me to Us in Business and Life

    I’ve had a fantastic opportunity to be back in Orlando speaking at WordCamp Orlando 2016 this year. In reflection over the last year both personally and professionally here at Open Sky Web Studio, we’ve seen growth and expansion on all fronts. But that growth can have its share of pain…
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  • Wordcamp 2016 Jacksonville April 16 & 17

    WordCamp Jacksonville 2016 | Organizing, Teaching and Growing the WordPress Community

    Open Sky Web Studio Loves Community! If there’s one thing we love about WordPress, it’s the community that surrounds and improves this open source software. One of our core principles at Open Sky Web Studio is to not be technical bullies about websites, the internet or technology as a whole….
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  • Three piles of stacked books

    Reading: A Non-Negotiable

    I just finished a quite lengthy, but deeply profound article by Christopher Butler on Smashing Magazine on the current state of content and information in our world: Content: A Blessing, A Bubble, A Burden. The inundation of information (in particular, digital information) in our lives has reached climatic levels. Yet…
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