Archive for April, 2009

The Oprah Effect

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

We all know The Oprah Effect.  Some say her seal of approval is how President Obama got elected.  When she puts her seal on a book it certainly skyrockets to the top of every best seller list.  I recently sent her my resume to see if she will put her seal on it.  If it comes back stamped I will be Director of Development at Google next week- BET!

Anyway, The Oprah Effect has recently worked its magic on Twitter. Thanks to Oprah joining Twitter my parents are now on Twitter.  My parents are almost 60 years old!  Twitter has truly crossed over, it is no isolated to the hip in-crowd or whatever the kids call it these days!

Am I the only one who thinks it is totally hilarious and amazing that senior activities that were once dominated by cross-word puzzles and shuffle board now include Twitter and Wii?

Solid Web Developer

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

I graduated from The Art Institute of Las Vegas in 2006.  During my time there many of my advanced web development classes were taught by Mat Rosa, a grumpy developer-designer-teacher self proclaimed on his website mobimeet.

Mat recently wrote a great Rant clearing up the differences between web designers, web developers, webmasters, and web architects. After reading his post, I felt pretty good about being a solid Web Developer. Less than two years ago I would have barely fit into the Web Designer category and I have made all of this progress on my own!

My new 5 year goal is to become a Web Architect! I guess I better go get started.

Go check out Mat’s Rant on mobimeet and find out where you fall in on the list.