Mike Vardy

Happy Father’s Day (from a Happy Father)

I received my first Father’s Day gift a little over 7 years ago. Then I received another big one just shy of two years ago. Not a day goes by that I’m not grateful to have received those gifts. It is because of those gifts that I do what I do. Those gifts, of course, […]

My Voice at Northern Voice (and How I Need Your Voice)

I’m on the boat to Vancouver, getting ready for a few days over on the mainland. Tomorrow I’m speaking at Northern Voice 2012, which is a conference for bloggers and the like that is been going for a very long time. My talk is called Better Blogging Productivity: Making Time for The Write Words and

The New York Minutes

Last week in New York wasn’t all BlogWorld (now known as New Media Expo) for me. I wound up spending time wandering what I’d like to have thought was the better part of Manhattan (turns out it was only a very small, better part of Manhattan) and meeting up with folks I hadn’t seen in

A Workflow is A Space, A Room, A House

The following is a guest post by Erin Feldman. Her passion is Write Right, her fledgling business. She provides writing coach and consulting primarily to businesses because she deplores the divide that often occurs between creative writing and business writing. Erin would like to insert some creativity and individuality into cultures where the status quo

Information Audits

The following is a guest post by Justin Watt. Justin is an web and iOS developer by day in beautiful Victoria, BC. When he’s not able to enjoy the beautiful outdoors, he enjoys writing on the web at his weblog and interviewing fellow iOS developers at ObjectiveSee. He’d love it if you connected with him on

Impressions: BlogWorld New York 2012

Brace yourself, folks. This is going to be a long read. I returned from New York City on Friday – on a long flight to say the least – after attending my first BlogWorld ever. I had a great time on my first trip to New York, with not nearly enough time to truly explore what

Process as Product

The following is a guest post by my good friend Anthony Marco. Anth and I started the premier independent Canadian tech and pop culture podcast Dyscultured nearly four years ago (I departed the show earlier this year and Anth is still hosting the podcast with Andrew Currie, Shane Birley and Ryan Wiseman) and he has

Just Do It

The following is a guest post from online and offline friend Cheryl DeWolfe. Cheryl is a part-time freelancer, author, procrastinator, and wearer of many other hats in Victoria BC. Cheryl can be found blogging at Flotsam & Jetsam and tweeting as @victriviaqueen. If reading the title of this post brings to mind a shoe company,

The Genre of Productivity: The Next Big Thing On The Web

The following is a guest post by Dan Gordon. He is a fourth generation jeweler and President of Samuel Gordon Jewelers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. So based on that…why did I ask him to write a guest post? Well, I wanted him to expand upon his thoughts he had shared with my podcast co-host (and