Recently I was chatting with a friend, Adin Miller, on Skype. Adin and I met about a year ago after being introduced by a mutual friend, Beth Kanter. Beth introduced us because the Grants Manager Network was looking for someone to present on a social networking panel. I was delighted to be tapped as that resource.

Adin shared with me that he needed someone who could create a few static web pages for him on his 1&1 shared server and perhaps link a Wordpress blog to those pages. We chatted for a while, and it became evident what he really wanted and needed was a way to:

1. Bring all his content under one "roof"
2. Have easy ways to update and add content
3. Have a blogging platform
4. Be able to richly tag his content
5. Have something that could start to raise search engine rankings
6. He wanted RSS
7. Social networking links
8. "Categories" like Wordpress
9. Include static informational pages
10. Spam Control