Nate Ritter

Jul 01

Wiki In Plain English

Posted by nate within Techie

For years I’ve been helping my friends and family understand some of the jargon that goes along with being on the web. Now that the web is commonplace, the number of questions I get has increased. Thankfully, there are many resources out there to help people get some great answers now. For a long time, the web lingo has dissuaded people from using the technologies that we geeks come up with. That time is coming to a close thanks to a few friends of mine - CommonCraft founders Lee and Sashi LeFever.

The series they’ve been doing for quite some time now is one I refer to often. It’s essentially called the “Plain English” series in my book. They do the tough job of taking difficult to understand technological words, concepts, and software and break it down into … well, plain English - a language that normal human beings (well, normal for those of us who speak English already) understand.

For starters, let’s take the idea of a Wiki. Where the heck did that word come from? Wiki. Say it a few times and instead of being frustrated, I guarantee you’ll start to laugh at yourself.

But what is a wiki anyway?

This is the perfect example of where Lee and Sashi’s Plain English series comes into play. They’ve created a video for you to explain this very thing. I’m simply going to include it here, but I highly suggest that you go and visit their site (CommonCraft.com) to get more information on other things that you can learn about in plain English besides wikis.

Enjoy

Wikis in Plain English from Project MyShare on Vimeo.

Jun 27

Social Media - The Future of News Is Here

Posted by nate within Community, General, Leadership, Techie

The past year has been full of social media being the first to break the news. Even prior to this year I was hearing of earthquakes and good news reports from citizen journalists long before the traditional journalists showed up on the scene.
The Iran elections have changed the face of media and government control [...]

Jun 17

… More WordPress Photo Galleries

Posted by nate within Design, Photography

For a long time now I’ve gotten quite a bit of traffic from search engines for my super old, and probably no longer working WordPress photo gallery plugin. I appreciate all the attention, but I really believe that with how awesome WordPress is these days, there are much better alternatives.
And without much ado, I [...]

Jun 07

Father’s Day Gift Ideas

Posted by nate within Ideas

Father’s Day is getting closer and closer (June 21June 22 in the US, UK and Canada). Following up on my list of Mother’s Day gift ideas, I figured I ought to do one for Dad’s Day gift ideas too. We had some great, unique gift ideas in the comments and that was fun, [...]

May 15

Bad Business Model Evolution

Posted by nate within Business, Entrepreneurship

There’s a right way to evolve your business model, and a wrong way. Every business changes throughout the company or project’s time line - especially those small ones who are still trying to find themselves and the money. But, there are a few things that in today’s culture and marketplace which have the [...]