Archive for Category: Work

accumulated web site marketing tips & tricks

Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 1:56 am
Filed under: General, Technology, Web 2.0, Work

I was asked recently to put together a list of site marketing and SEO-related tips and tricks based on the last few months (and years, with other projects) of experience I’ve had trying to help build traffic on Protagonize.
(Beware, this is pretty long, but I hope it’ll be of use to you.)
Curiously, until I [...]

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bright lights, big city

Monday, February 4th, 2008, 9:48 pm
Filed under: General, Life, Work

Just a quick update this time, but an important one — at least to me.
After an eventful five-and-a-half years at OpenRoad Communications, I’ve decided to change things up a little bit and move on to a new opportunity. My last day at OpenRoad will be February 13th, and I’ll be joining Habanero Consulting Group’s [...]

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protagonize is live!

Friday, December 28th, 2007, 2:35 am
Filed under: General, Technology, Web 2.0, Work

After several months of part-time toil, my pet project is finally live. Yes, it’s been a long time coming, but Protagonize is now up and running and completely open to the public. Aside from being sleep deprived and having spent the better part of my Christmas holidays so far working on the site, I’ve [...]

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preview: protagonize.com, community-driven interactive fiction

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007, 11:30 pm
Filed under: General, Web 2.0, Work

You might be wondering about the subject of this post. I’m sure you’ve never heard of Protagonize.com, and there’s a perfectly good reason for that: it doesn’t exist yet. Well, at least not in any place you could find it publicly. Fortunately, it’s just about complete and should be on its way to a browser [...]

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the art of tech job hunting in vancouver

Friday, September 8th, 2006, 6:40 pm
Filed under: Technology, Work

It’s quite often that I find myself the target of questions relating to finding work in the tech industry in Vancouver. I’m not sure why, considering I’ve been working in the industry here for almost nine years and I’ve only worked for three different companies, but I guess people are under the assumption that having been around the block [...]

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