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Entries from February 28th, 2010

The Shaun White “Bump”

February 28th, 2010 2 Comments

Up until this past summer, I was using the free WordPress.com blog hosting solution for this blog at ericinparkcity.wordpress.com. I decided to move to a self-hosted option at www.ericinparkcity.com, in order to test out more options that are available in the WordPress.org package as well as to see what SEO options would be available on [...]

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Rate the coverage of the Winter Olympics

February 21st, 2010 4 Comments

Now that the Winter Olympics are over halfway over, I thought it would be interesting to see you think about the TV coverage so far. Please feel free to leave a comment if just voting isn’t enough for you!

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Ski Resorts Online – Websites, Blogs, Social Networks and More

February 17th, 2010 8 Comments

My Ski Resorts on Twitter post has been up for a bit over a year now and it’s become apparent to me that the list is already falling behind the times (even with regular updates). It’s not just Twitter now, but Facebook, YouTube, blogs and any number of other networks that resorts are using to [...]

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Blogging the Olympic Games?

February 14th, 2010 No Comments

While browsing through some tweets from the USOC Communications Twitter feed the other day, I came upon the International Olympic Committee’s Blogging Guidelines for the 2010 Vancouver Games and while I give them kudos for coming up with such a document, I have to say that I think this document was produced almost completely with [...]

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Do what you love…

February 7th, 2010 1 Comment

I just spent a half hour watching this great video, “Lemonade”, about taking full advantage of the hand that life deals to you: It’s not the best time to be in practically any industry, but I feel like this is what I’ve been doing for most of my career and in particular now, (ie the [...]

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One half done, one to go – first half awards

February 3rd, 2010 2 Comments

I’m not sure where the time went, but we’re into February and a bit over half-way through the 2009-10 Winter Season…wow, where did the time go! I’ve written before about how working at a ski resort is like working at a school, so I suppose we just went through our mid-terms (hope I passed). But, [...]

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