Kyle Thomas

The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)

Why You Should Be Online

The Internet has rapidly grown over the last 5 years and has become one of our most used business tools. Telephone calls and Faxes have now switched to e-mails and Skype calls. We find e-billing and e-statements not only a greener choice but a simpler one. Libraries, bookstores and magazine racks are slowly disappearing, as online research becomes easier and more accessible.

So, 2 questions you need to ask yourself are: Does your business have a website? Can you be found online?  Can you answer yes to those? If not, here are some reasons why you should be able to.

  1. Do you have Google Juice, are you google-able?This is probably the most important thing, just read Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do book.  How many of us will “Google it” if we……….. Read the Full Article on With Media by Clicking Here

Starting a Podcast

I decided I would take the bold move and attempt to start a weekly podcast. I tried video but I just couldn’t wrap my head around doing a weekly video so instead I am going to switch to just audio for a bit. Although I will still continue with my random videos every once and a while.

I have been looking since day one for my niche and I have some what settled into writing about Yellowknife, which I enjoy so I figured what better topic for a podcast. In the podcast I hope to talk about some Yellowknife news which would be currently in the headlines as well as Yellowknife’s online community. From those who are on twitter, in the social media club and any other new Yellowknife related site and finds there might be.

What I would love to happen would be for this podcast to become a community “project” where others contribute whether it is just a new website link for Yellowknife they have found or actually coming on the show and sharing what they have found.

I have yet to figure out how to record Skype conversations but am able to use iChat in Garageband for the time being. So if anyone is at all interested in joining me in an episode let me know. Seriously.

Well that’s it for now.

Government Vs. My MacBook

I’m not going to get in to the details as to what I was doing but I will give you a quick recap.

I was going through parts of the Fedral Government website in the Business section or whatever it might be called looking for information on starting a business. The thing that drives me nuts about the government site is all the linking. You read one article which links to 10 other articles and each of those links to another 10 and so on. Call me stupid or challenged but that is confusing. I hate being directed around in circles by big websites. Did I find what I was looking for, No.

The next little issue that was pushing me over the edge was a form I was filling out online on the Government site. The form was for a business number but it seemed to be taking forever to respond to the server it was pulling and sending the information to. On top of me becoming impatient so was my computer because it started to freak out. It all of a sudden started to get glitchy and freeze up for 2 or 3 seconds at a time. At that point the fan was spinning at worp speed and sounded horrible. Then as if the computer said that’s it I have had enough and flicked an internal off switch, it dropped the Wireless connection and froze up. I was so mad I actually said “I want to throw you(my macbook) at the government” whatever that means.

I did not throw the computer. I did although let it cool down while I did the same. I then plugged it in and all was good again except I did not go back to the Government site. I didn’t think I will worry about it for now.

That was how 5 minutes of my evening went, how did yours go?

Yesterday had its excitment while I slept

Yesterday was full of 2 interesting findings, even though I slept all day.

The one thing I go excited about was some national recognition YkOnline received. Here is what happened. At about 6pm I got up and opened up my MacBook as I always do and checked my stats for both websites. When I saw that YkOnline had almost tripled the amount of hits it was normally gets I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was weird as the only post I had published in 5 days was about Yellowknife’s Twitter community and didn’t think it would get very much recognition and well I was right. As I scrolled down to see where the hits were being referred from I saw that most of them were coming from Miss604.com. If you don’t know about Miss604, you should check it out. Rebecca Bollwitt blogs about Vancouver and has become very famous do it, needless to say she is an idol of mine. So when I saw all these hits coming from her site, I quickly scrambled over there. I was delightfully surprised to read in one of her latest posts she linked back to YkOnline. Not only that she explained that we (as in Yellowknifers) have TweetUps and have a directory of all the Tweeps. I was so happy to see that not only YkOnline was getting recognized but also our Twitter community.

The other interesting thing about yesterday was what I found on my truck tires. Orange lines, could they be markings done by By-Law Officers. Read my post of YkOnline about what I think.

There you have it.