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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: Documentation December
Sending Email from a Forwarded Gmail Using Mailgun
This post is pretty much a sticky note for myself to remember how I did this, but someone out there may find it useful. The scenario is I forward my [email protected] email (hosted through Google Apps) to my [email protected] address. … Continue reading
Using External SMTP Servers for Forwarded Email with Google Apps Address
In the spirit of Documentation December at Reclaim Hosting, I’m following up on a tutorial I wrote about Sending Mail from a Forwarded Email Address through Gmail. I was having issues adding my [email protected] email account to my Gmail account as a … Continue reading
Reclaim the Portfolio
A university contacted me earlier this week to see if we had anything their faculty might be able to play with in terms of portfolio solutions. Tim Owens created the amazing State University as a demo site for anyone interested experiencing what a Domain of One’s Own … Continue reading
Sending Mail from a Forwarded Email Address (Gmail)
Immediately after my last post for “Documentation December” on Forwarding Email in CPanel, I got a question about whether you can reply to messages sent to that email from the forwarded address. This is possible, and I will try and document … Continue reading
Reclaim Your Email Namespace
I’ve been working on some tutorials for “Documentation December” at Reclaim Hosting. One of the simpler, albeit powerful, tools available through CPanel is Email Forwarding. This enables you to create an email address using you domain, such as [email protected] or [email protected], etc. You … Continue reading
Domain Mapping on Squarespace
Building on the domain mapping documentation I am putting together for Reclaim Hosting (my last post took you through Domain Mapping on GitHub), this post will take you through how to point your domain to Squarespace. After you connect your domain over at Squarespace … Continue reading
Domain Mapping on GitHub
Over the last couple of weeks a number of requests have come in at Reclaim Hosting from folks who what to map their domain (or a subdomain) on another service. I’ve been writing about domain mapping for years on the bava, and I … Continue reading