Author Archives: Gary Grant

About Gary Grant

Auto writer, motorsports photographer, social media specialist.

And so @geegrant goes live on Twitter

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Gary Grant

Have you ever wondered if you’ve spread yourself too thin online? I’m wondering that right now with the launch of yet another twitter profile, this time to build my personal brand as a social media…umm…whatever I have become. It seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media | Leave a comment

Toronto Raptor’s Mascot eats a cheerleader

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Gary Grant

He even ate her on national TV! Dirty!

Posted in Shit | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A funny thing happened on the way to the show

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Gary Grant

Way back in 2002, I was looking for a way to escape the retail automotive industry. The problem was that I had worked in the field so long that I was truly an expert, which made leaving very difficult. Then, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Social Media | Leave a comment

Twittorials for car dealers: Making sense of the hash tag

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Gary Grant

A quick look around the Twitterverse shows that a good many new car dealers are working hard to ride the social media wave. That is just great, only many are lacking in their execution due to an old failing of … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Killer Plugin: LinkWithin

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Gary Grant

We’ve played around with a few different related posts plugins but all of them seemed a bit boring visually. Then, I stumbled across LinkWithin. The way LinkWithin works is the company crawls your site to capture categories, keywords and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Testing, testing!

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Gary Grant

Testing out a few twitter plugins for our live coverage of this weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. If you see some funky stuff, you understand why! And the winner, for our purposes is…..ThinkTwit It is the only Twitter plugin I … Continue reading →

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Thesis theme in play for real

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Gary Grant

I’m really excited to say that I have installed Thesis on The Garage and modded it to resemble the previous version. I’ve done it. Me. Techno no mind! The more recent versions of WordPress are so user friendly, that when … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Gary Grant
Posted in Bumpy | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Nuking Easy Adsense plugin

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Gary Grant

The Easy Adsense plugin does not appear to be playing nicely with Thesis, putting ads beside images since the update. I’ve been using the Quick Adsense plugin on another site and it is easy to set up, so I think … Continue reading →

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Feature test

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Gary Grant

Another test of images. The previous one used the standard WP image function, this one is using the Thesis image management. The image is uploaded as you would normally, then you add the image link url to a post image … Continue reading →

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment