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How you can make a difference

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:05:35 +0000

My company Raven is a sponsor of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee. We sponsor them because of the incredibly positive impact they make in the lives of children in our community. If you don’t live in Middle Tennessee, please check out your local chapter. If you do live here, then here’s 12 easy ways (as suggested by the organization) you can make a difference.

May – Support an End-of-School Party Bash: $100
June – Send a Child to Camp: $60 for One Week of Camp
July – Purchase a Flock of Ducks for the Annual Great Nashville Duck Race: $50
August – Support our kids with Back-to-School Supplies: $100
September – Attend the Green Hills Nordstrom’s Grand Opening Gala: $100
October – Support the Annual Ingram cup Golf Tournament at Golf Club of Tennessee: $100 Hole Sponsor
November – Support our Award-Winning Wine Down Main Street, Franklin: $85
December – Make Christmas a Reality for our Club Members: $100
January – Start the New Year right by Giving an Annual Pledge: $100
February – Be a Valentine – Throw our Youth a Party: $50
March – Support our College Tour for 50 of our Teenagers: $75
April – Support our Youth of the Year Gala Event: $200

The “Real” Hamster Dance

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:01:21 +0000

This is my very first YouTube mashup, which uses this brilliant video of a real hamster dancing, and mashes it with the classic hamster dance song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6_2tNZHoQ0

Creating a Web Stream with RSS Doodle on WordPress

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:58:23 +0000

One of the things I like the most about WordPress 3.x is its merging of the MU code. I have the henshaw.me domain running on WordPress 3.x with MU enabled, which allows me to easily create new sites with subdomains. For example, this site is using jon.henshaw.me (and I have the root domain redirecting to it). I also have other subdomains setup for family members. The neat thing about being able to easily create subdomains with this type of WordPress install, is that you can get creative.

I thought it would be neat to create a subdomain that aggregates my blog and social media streams – so I did! I created Jon Henshaw’s Web Stream on the subdomain stream.henshaw.me. I then used John Lessnau‘s awesome plugin, RSS Doodle. RSS Doodle aggregates RSS feeds from different sources, and does so in a non-spammy way (which is why I like it).

I aggregated three different streams:

This interlinking may be seen as questionable from an SEO perspective, but it doesn’t really concern me all that much. I’m not going for backlink love, which I wouldn’t really get anyways, because all of my sites are obviously related to each other (IPs, hosting, footprints, etc…). Instead, I’m going for solidifying site relationships with my name. I’m making it painfully obvious to search engines which sites, including social media profiles, belong to me. The only other way I could scream it louder, would be to use XFN attributes – something I might do in the future.

A Little Bit of Rest

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:27:21 +0000

I’ll be spending the next few days with my family on the beach. Definitely need a break from all of the action at Raven. Feels good to have trustworthy and competent people to take care of things while I’m gone.

Deleted My Plaxo Account

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:16:58 +0000

Unlike my LinkedIn account, I’ve never really liked Plaxo all that much. It has a history of being and feeling spammy, and it makes it too easy for people I’m not interested in finding and trying to follow me. I was reminded of that today, which also reminded me to delete my account with them.

Update: Deleted my FriendFeed and Naymz accounts too, FTW!

Thank You Kenny Hyder

Jon Henshaw — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:44:17 +0000

Just received this magnificent gift from Kenny Hyder. It’s the Distilled Edition of Talisker’s single malt scotch whisky from the Isle of Skye – double matured, bottled in 2008, and distilled in 1996 (that was a good year for wine too). Muchos butros gracias!