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Protect Your Work with Creative Commons Licenses

By Becky McCray

The Creative Commons license protects creative works with more flexibility than a standard US copyright. “Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can’t do with your work. When you choose a license, we provide you with tools and tutorials that let you add license information […]

March 28, 2006 Filed Under: tools Tagged With: review

Getting Things Done: One Organization Method

By Becky McCray

Merlin Mann, at organization blog 43 Folders, has been Getting Things Done. What is GTD? “Basically, you make your stuff into real, actionable items or things you can just get rid of.” Mann has been doing this for a year, and now has a review of his progress. So how does GTD work? This is […]

March 22, 2006 Filed Under: tools Tagged With: review

Website Search Optimization

By Becky McCray

The is the last in the series of posts from my website class handouts. Believe it or not, just creating your site and keeping the needs of your users in mind is not enough to ensure that people can find you using search engines. This is vitally important because seraching is the top activity online, […]

February 21, 2006 Filed Under: tools Tagged With: review

Website statistics tools

By Becky McCray

Once you have a website, you want to know if anyone is looking at it. So most web hosting includes at least some basic statistics. But, we are always hungry to know more about our customers. So here are some no-fee web stats packages I use. StatCounter – provides very detailed info on the most […]

February 19, 2006 Filed Under: tools Tagged With: review

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