Category: Blogging

  • Most-Read GeekFluent Posts in 2019

    What a year 2019 was. But now it’s past and good riddance. Not all of 2019 was bad, but — for me at least — it was a hard year as can be evidenced by the frighteningly low number of new posts I made during the year. Everything is starting into an upswing now, so…

  • Voting for Top vBlog 2017 is Open — Closes 30 June

    Voting for Top vBlog 2017 is Open — Closes 30 June

    It’s that time of year again when you’re seeing lots of “Vote for Me!” blog posts and tweets. This is not one of those posts. Yes, once again, Eric Seibert is running voting for the Top vBlog of 2017 on his really great blog vSphere-Land. (If it’s not already in whatever you’ve moved to since Google…

  • Voting for Top vBlogs of 2016 is Open!

    Voting for Top vBlogs of 2016 is Open!

    vSphere-land is running the annual voting for the Top Virtualization Blogs (vBlogs) of 2016. There are so many good blogs out there Eric (who runs vSphere-Land) has made two changes to the voting this year: To qualify, a blog needs to have had at least 10 posts published in 2015. You can now vote for…

  • For Vendors: Handling Negative Social Media Feedback — Three Case Studies and Some Tips

    For Vendors: Handling Negative Social Media Feedback — Three Case Studies and Some Tips

    If you’re a right-thinking individual, you’ll find it hard to believe that sometimes not everyone agrees with everything I write. In fact, sometimes people have taken exception to things I write. On the rare event when it has happened, it’s usually the vendors I write about who disagree with me. In this post, I’ll present…

  • Dave’s Blogging Tips: Don’t Wait

    Dave’s Blogging Tips: Don’t Wait

    This is the first of what I’m hoping to turn into a series of blogging tips posts. I’m well aware that I haven’t been blogging anywhere’s near as long as some of the other folks out there have been. I’m also well aware that I haven’t achieved the level of blogging success that some folks…

  • Tech Bloggers’ Support Group – Beta Test

    Tech Bloggers’ Support Group – Beta Test

    This is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to be doing more with this blog: posting more often, creating series of posts, improving my writing skills, increasing my readership, etc. Obviously, the easiest of these for me to affect is the “posting more often”. I’m…

  • Top VMware and Virtualization Blog Survey 2015

    The blog vSphere-land is holding its annual contest / voting survey for the top 50 VMware- and virtualization-related blogs of 2015. All blogs listed on the vLaunchPad site are eligible. This blog was added to the vLaunchPad after the nominations for specific recognition categories, but in time to be included in the general voting. It…

  • Most-Read GeekFluent Posts of 2013

    I love metrics. OK, that’s not precisely true. I love the things we can learn from metrics, and the process of discovering that learning. In and of themselves, the metrics are nothing but numbers, and by themselves numbers just aren’t that exciting. What the numbers represent, on the other hand, can be very, very interesting.…

  • Most-Read GeekFluent Posts of 2012

    Admittedly, metrics aren’t all that exciting in and of themselves — it’s the information and the trends behind them, driving the numbers that are interesting.  This, in a single sentence, is the idea behind the Big Data phenomenon. That said, the data I have to present here is very near and dear to me.  It’s…