Courtney Robertson

Courtney Robertson, an open source developer relations advocate, is wearing a pirate hat, a DSLR camera, and a purple shirt

Courtney Robertson is an Open Source Developer Advocate, professional educator, and WordPress Contributor

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Recent Posts

  • Networking vs. Not Working

    Recently I was browsing around Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.  I saw someone in essence yelling “Buy My Stuff!”.  Sigh… I wanted to scream that the user’s method was Not Working rather than Networking. Clearly this violator hasn’t yet mastered the art of networking, offline or online.  I’m certainly of the mindset that before you…

  • Google Analytics with Webmaster Tools

    Measuring the traffic and goals on your website is vital to knowing if your efforts are working.  By integrating Google Analytics, you can easily see what traffic is reaching your site and what they are doing once there. Google Webmaster tools is related, but different, in it’s purpose.  Google Webmaster Tools will reveal what people…

  • I love WordPress

    Reasons why I love WordPress to maintain websites: Plugins when a a new social media sharing option arises, like Google+, it is easy to make a site-wide change. customize and tweak functionality of your website without messing up your design ease of use for posting updates Updates Just like your computer needs an update, your…

  • Local Networking

    Last night I had a had a chance to attend a local networking group, TriNet, in Hagerstown MD.  While there, I realized just how rusty I was at networking in person.  I’ve been focused in product development and a variety of projects.  I was desperately out of touch with business networking offline. While networking online…

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