http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/ Notes from ShowMeHowToDoThis.com en Copyright 2007 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:45:06 -0700 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Why do you put your address that way? Because of spam harvesting. How do I email you then? If you can't figure it out from the above email, then you're not the right person for this job.]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/i-need-to-find-a-writer.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/i-need-to-find-a-writer.html categories entries how-to writer Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:45:06 -0700 Kilimanjaro climb. They market the Playaway player, which was totally amazing to have on our climb, and they have this philosophy for their company that says, if it doesn't work, just find a way to make it work. The name of the company is FindAWay. And...]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/find-a-way.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/find-a-way.html Find a way findaway serve served service situations win winners Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:30:27 -0700
Differences Between Women And Men - Funny bloopers are a click away And in case you can't see the video for some reason, it's explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/how-to-understand-the-differences-between-women-an.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/how-to-understand-the-differences-between-women-an.html balls battle of the sexes men sexes women Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:18:19 -0700 Tags, but all-in-all, I'm very pleased so far with the job that they have been doing and how much time it saves me to have contracted with a couple of people to do the work. Carrie also built a few video entries today with some cooking videos and it's just super exciting to see the project coming together!]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/people-are-going.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/people-are-going.html coming together videos Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:18:52 -0700 Elance before, for a variety of stuff, but never have I had a response to a project like this. 44 different groups have bid on the project that I posted earlier. 44! Including a phone call this morning from someone in India saying that she saw my project and wanted to call me to ask more about it (which I suspect may have been someone trying to commit some sort of fraud, since the phone disconnected as soon as I started asking some questions... could have just been a bad phone connection or a dropped call though). So I'm really learning the value of outsourcing projects that someone else can do quicker and cheaper. I will be selecting someone today and making a screen capture video for them of what I want done, so as to avoid any confusion.]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/outsourcing-is-cool.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/outsourcing-is-cool.html cool dave taylor movable type outsourcing Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:31:38 -0700 Kevin Gianni recommended that in addition to the friend I have working on getting some of the videos put up on the site, that I actually use Elance and outsource the work. Sure I will have to pay someone to do it, but it should be VERY worth it. So I posted the job on Elance. I got nine bids back in the last 6 hours, ranging from $50 - $250, from providers of solutions all over the world.]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/two-really-cool-things.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/two-really-cool-things.html cool elance ideas templates video Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:11:23 -0700 I was at a Super-Target today returning a couple of Christmas presents, and getting some grocery items for Colorado's second round of major snowfall, and realized something big: I was standing there in the store, looking at all of the signs overhead, and saw all the different sections in the store. Men's, Ladies, Juniors, Misses (I swear that I will continue to try but I don't know that I will EVER understand women's sizes), games, videos/DVD's, Toys, Seasonal, etc... and I realized that I'm building something bigger. This site that I'm building is THE superstore for how-to videos... and not just the superstore for one town or one state even, but for the entire English speaking world. *and maybe someday expanding thoroughly into other languages too.* http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/building-the-superstore-of-how.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/building-the-superstore-of-how.html super superstore Target Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:44:34 -0700 here. This is one of my favorite calls I have listened to recently because it incorporates much of what I've heard from many other "gurus" about managing time and getting to where you want to be. The sad part of it is that most people will never do what he recommends in this call because they will dismiss it as stupid, or too simple to actually work, or simply won't take the time to do it on a daily basis. It does work, and will on this project as well as it has on many other projects I've done before. It's what's got me thinking that I need to go away for a couple of days (away from distractions) and really lay out a plan for the next 6 months on this site, as well as my own daily method of operations...]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/getting-the-master-list-togeth.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/getting-the-master-list-togeth.html Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:28:36 -0700 Importing the videos from the other hosting package has got me thinking that there MUST be a better way (other than one video at a time) to grab lots of how to content from online, get it into a text file, and then upload it to the web site, later coming back to do descriptions and transcriptions and whatnot. That has to be the next stage of the evolution for this project. Create a software that will scour the Internet looking for video content on the click of a button. Make that software versatile enough that I can re-sell it. Make the software custom enough that it will work to put content on the site. This will work, and it will be good! :) Bed time. Very tired. http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/got-to-be-a-way.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/got-to-be-a-way.html Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:38:23 -0700 IMDB web site and learned (remembered) that the tag line for The Butterfly Effect was "Change one thing, change everything."]]> http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/i-woke-up-early-thinking-butte.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/i-woke-up-early-thinking-butte.html butterfly categories effect expert marketing woke up Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:43:26 -0700 I decided a while ago that I was going to start blogging about this project as it was happening, but today's post is the FIRST on this blog! So that's exciting. The reason I hadn't blogged on the site and it's construction yet is because it was hosted on a package that was shared with other web sites that I run, and for many reasons, it became apparent that TellMeHowToDoThis.com (THMTDT.com) and ShowMeHowToDoThis.com (SMHTDT.com) were going to need a web space of their own. So I've been in the process of the last week of moving over the first 500 videos from the one hosting package to this hosting package. http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/the-first-post-moving-hosting.html http://www.showmehowtodothis.com/blog/the-first-post-moving-hosting.html blogging hosting moving packages video Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:29:01 -0700