WordPress as a CMS

WordPress has been synonymous with blogging for the past couple years, and as a publishing tool it has done exceedingly well. As a content management tool, it offers simplicity, flexibility, and is extremely customizable.

Even though WordPress is a free tool, the community is so huge and dedicated, and it is so well supported that as a CMS, WordPress outperforms many of it’s competitors.

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WordPress has been synonymous with blogging for the past couple years, and as a publishing tool it has done exceedingly well. As a content management tool, it offers simplicity, flexibility, and is extremely customizable.

Even though WordPress is a free tool, the community is so huge and dedicated, and it is so well supported that as a CMS, WordPress outperforms many of it’s competitors.

How to make small accomplishments when you feel overwhelmed

Sometimes I have a to-do list that is so long, I feel overwhelmed just looking at it.

Becoming a single parent definitely came with a lot of challenges, but becoming a successful work at home single parent, I am discovering, might be a bit of a miracle!

There were a lot of times that I got so overwhelmed with trying to balance my workload and my kids that I felt like I could possibly suffer spontaneous human combustion! Well, perhaps that’s a little exaggerated, but you know, I was close to that!

Once I realized that I needed a better strategy, I started making lists (I am certainly not a list person). I made lists of everything that I needed to do – I included household chores, and kiddie duties as well – but the problem was that some of those tasks took such a long time that I was never able to finish about 90% of the things on my list!

I may have read this somewhere, but I don’t remember (don’t credit me, and thanks to whoever thought of it!), but I decided that I would spend 30 minutes on each task. This worked pretty good because even if I didn’t finish a particular task, at least I was making progress on each thing I had to do. I also started feeling much less overwhelmed because it was no longer inundating, gigantic, hours of work, but small bite-sized chunks.

Would love to hear other ideas on reducing that “overwhelmed” feeling when working on a multitude of things at once!

On BlogHer ‘08

I was lucky enough to be part of a panel at BlogHer, FAQs for beginning bloggers with Michelle, Melanie and Nelly, who were all very amazing co-panelists.

I was lucky enough to be part of a panel at BlogHer, FAQs for beginning bloggers with Michelle, Melanie and Nelly, who were all very amazing co-panelists.

We received great feedback from attendees, and I am glad that it was a beneficial session to those that attended.

I put together an outline of a few beginner WordPress questions, and brief answers: Beginning with WordPress

And Nelly was kind enough to make our shared resources document available at the Webgrrls website: Blogging resources