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Site News

If you’re here…

by Betsy Richter

…you’re at the newer, faster home for OurPDX Networks!
I still have some rearranging and/or unpacking to do, but you should notice a much speedier performance. Please file your bugs and/or suggestions in the comments box – thanks!
Oh, and – you can now get to us by using ourpdx.org as well (in addition to ourpdx.net, [...]

02.08.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

Farewell GeoffK

by Dieselboi

Greetings Readers. This morning, GeoffK decided to resign from OurPDX.net as an author. We’re always sad to see authors leave as we enjoy everyone’s voice and story. We wish Geoff luck with other endeavors. When Geoff decided to resign, he chose to delete the posts he had created here on OurPDX, [...]

01.13.2009 See the rest → 19 comments

How Are We Doing?

by Betsy Richter

Update: It’s been suggested in the comments to this post that I ought to be conducting myself differently (I’m moving that discussion over here – don’t respond there, please!):
When you own and operate a site, weather (sic) or not you physically edit posts, you are the site’s publisher. As such you can’t drop that [...]

12.06.2008 See the rest → 29 comments

OurPDX Meetups: We’re Bailing On Wednesdays!

by Betsy Richter

We originally picked Wednesdays for our meetups because it was convenient for me, me, ME.
And while we’ve had decent turnouts, we’ve also heard from people who said it conflicted with last night’s Portland Web Innovators meeting (which I’m also bummed I missed out on — thanks, Rick for the kind words about OurPDX!) [...]

12.04.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

Outside.in Likes Us! They Really Like Us!

by Betsy Richter

OMG! Like, I got this email message today? From my new BFF Nina? Who says we’re included in a list of Top 5 Blogs in Portland? Squee!
(Okay, done channeling my long-suppressed inner pre-teen…fairly squickalicious, isn’t she??)
Here’s the email excerpt:
We analyzed data from over 4,000 blogs that provide feeds to the [...]

10.13.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BETSY!!”

by Cosmic Charlie

Yes, it’s our beloved Betsy’s birthday. Besides announcing to the whole wide world that she’s now fuh-fuh-sumthin’-sumthin’ years old, I thought I should do something nice, so I made bourbon chicken. Is that the same as stewed chicken?

I can’t promise barnyard animals, but a bunch of us two-legged critters will be gathering [...]

10.08.2008 See the rest → 5 comments

Welcome, new authors!

by Betsy Richter

In the last week or so, we’ve added four great new authors to the OurPDX family: Capricious, Metroknow, Aaron and FlexRex.
Woo-hoo—new blood! Please join me in welcoming them, will you?
And if you want to hang with us OurPDX authors (although my teenage son tells me the correct term is [...]

10.03.2008 See the rest → 2 comments

WordCamp Portland: My OurPDX presentation

by Betsy Richter

If you happened to see my presentation Saturday at WordCamp Portland, here’s my companion post with links to the slideshow, the UStream video, and the resources I referenced during the talk itself:
Slideshow is up on Slideshare (without fancy transitions, sorry – couldn’t preserve the Keynote ‘bling’ added by my 10-year-old):
OurPDX preso for WordCampPortland
View SlideShare presentation [...]

09.27.2008 See the rest → 2 comments

Join Us Tonight!

by Betsy Richter

Just a reminder: We’ll be hanging out at The Chesterfield from 5 pm on tonight. Look for us up on the 2nd Floor in/near the pod (if we’re lucky) or downstairs.
We’re springing for some appetizers, but you’re on your own for beverages (yep, we’re still a ‘kids in the barn’ operation [...]

09.17.2008 See the rest → 14 comments

We Love Comments, but…

by Betsy Richter

…we don’t much like dealing with mostly-anonymous drive-by shooters who choose to act out in our comments section. We could just delete ’em as we see ’em—but we’d rather not—we like free speech as much as the next guy, and we really don’t want to be the Comment Police.
Instead—since we *do* love spirited, [...]

08.27.2008 See the rest → 12 comments

Site maintenance

by Betsy Richter

I’m going to be doing some site upgrades and/or maintenance behind the scenes here for the next couple of hours before my house gets too hot here! If you notice bumps or funky stuff, that’s why…
With any luck, i’ll update this message to say that everything’s fine.
If i’m not so lucky? Report any [...]

08.16.2008 See the rest → 2 comments
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