Yakiji (Yah-key-jee) » General http://www.yakiji.com Design, Development, Marketing...All Things Web Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Top Must Read Web Articles from 2009 http://www.yakiji.com/general/top-must-read-web-articles-2009/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-must-read-web-articles-2009 http://www.yakiji.com/general/top-must-read-web-articles-2009/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:03:00 +0000 Jonny Thompson http://www.yakiji.com/?p=222 It’s only hours before the decade is over and 2009 was a great year for me. It was a year of outstanding innovation in the web and with that came great content as social media really took off. Sadly there wasn’t enough time in the day to read all the great content from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc…and of course I have a life too. I really dove into Twitter this last year and it opened up my eyes to some great resources and articles. While I probably missed many great posts, I decided to list some of my favorite (must-read) blog posts from 2009. Enjoy.

Did I miss anything? What were your favorite posts?

]]> http://www.yakiji.com/general/top-must-read-web-articles-2009/feed/ 0 Oh Crap Moment http://www.yakiji.com/general/oh-crap-moment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oh-crap-moment http://www.yakiji.com/general/oh-crap-moment/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:37:23 +0000 Jonny Thompson http://www.yakiji.com/?p=153 I did it. I signed up for SXSW (Interactive) last week. Registration, hotel, and flight – all taken care of. So why is this news? Well, after getting all hyped up about it I realized I had one problem – I couldn’t find anybody else to go with me. At best, I have a friend who might be living in Austin, Texas at the time of SXSW, but he has warned me that it’s possible he may be deployed for the Army. With that in mind, I had every reason not to go – why would I want to throw myself in there alone. I knew SXSW meant being in the presence with some of the best interactive minds in the world of the web. People who inspire and innovate. In addition to that, it’s about going to the great SXSW parties in Austin where you get to know the people and network. While I’m a social person I am not the type that can go up to anybody and introduce myself. In fact that is my biggest shortcoming. With that as my barrier, I had accepted defeat. Then, all of the sudden something amazing happened, I took a deep breath and went to SXSW.com…and I registered.

The next day I woke up to my Oh Crap Moment. I just registered to attend SXSW and I’m going alone. No sidekick. No wingman. Just me and the driving force to go outside my comfort zone. The only way I can describe it is that it’s like when you are ready to go sky diving for the first time and you step to the door of the plane. What comes next is that Oh Crap Moment. Every thought and reflex in you mind tells you to turn around and sit down. But if you dig down deep and find the fire in yourself, you can take that next leap and start flying (or you’re pushed by your instructor). While you’re free falling the feeling is freedom. Freedom of pushing past a barrier. You’re now in control of yourself.

After you land safely, you take a long gaze up in the sky to determine if it really was worth it. It’s about pushing past that barrier that instinctively tells you to turn around. What I’ve learned is that if you want others to trust in you, you must first trust in yourself. You will succeed if you believe in yourself and the payoff will be as big as the barrier you’ll break through.

Stay tuned…

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]]> http://www.yakiji.com/general/fresh-from-twitter-3/feed/ 0 2009 Resolutions and Goals http://www.yakiji.com/general/2009-resolutions-and-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2009-resolutions-and-goals http://www.yakiji.com/general/2009-resolutions-and-goals/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:36:11 +0000 Jonny Thompson http://www.yakiji.com/?p=54 Time to start fresh. I have high expectations for myself this year and to create my own pressure I thought I would blog about my 2009 goal list.

  • Master Web Design
  • Develop a web presense
  • Blog:
    • Deliver Quality Content
    • Monetize my blog
    • Average 2 posts per week
  • Attend an SEO/Web Conference
  • Design the Guv’s Place website (my brother’s bar)
  • Trips:
    • New York City
    • Washington D.C. – I love history!
  • Redesign my girlfriend’s website
  • Publish my first ebook (stay tuned…)
  • Run another marathon
  • Become a morning person
  • Get organized.

That’s all I have. It will be fun to revisit this list 1 year from now and see what I have accomplished.

What are your 2009 goals/resolutions?

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