Many of our clients are using WordPress as a CMS because of it’s extreme ease of use and large number of plugins made available by its community. One thing we take for granted is the knowledge behind what makes a WordPress plugin worthwhile. Is it the idea or the implementation? Maybe it’s both. But furthermore [...]
WordPress has had a small hole in its soul I liked to call “the multimedia gap”. It always struck me as odd that such a powerful blogging platform had not yet completely satisfied the needs of a web 2.0 audience. That is, until I stumbled upon the Apture plugin. Not only does it make embedding [...]
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I spend a lot of time browsing the blogs of some of my fellow Gen-Yers and am always surprised by the lack of usability. I know content is our primary focus, but I’m often surprised to find:
I can’t find a [...]
It’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of plugin madness when it comes down to populating your WordPress blogs sidebar with cool new widgets. We convince ourselves that our readers would find them useful and we picture them gleefully playing with the little widget that allows them to feed virtual fish. Now when [...]
If you’re monitoring Twitter and Google for mentions of your brand or website, you’re probably only seeing half of the conversation. What about people that shorten your URLs and share them without linking to your Twitter profile? What if someone mentions your brand name in the comments of someone else’s blog? Do you even know [...]
Running a video blog is an easy way to get quality engaging content on the web with very little effort. Granted it’s up to you to make the video posts quality and engaging. We can usually do a post in one take which can take anywhere from 3 to 10 minutes. This is a lot [...]
You may have taken a glance at Twitter’s search operators page. You also may have seen TwiTip’s 7 Secret Ways to Use Twitter. However, I have a slightly different point of view as to what Twitter’s function is in my life. For example, I would never search Twitter for interesting links and instead would rely [...]
I see most businesses approaching social media the same way. The first thing they look for is a standard set of best practices and social media etiquette. Then they might go off and find some case studies or social media marketing examples. If they aren’t overwhelmed by the diverse results they receive they will most [...]
I’ve talked about the Future of Flash in the past, and well, technically now that the future is here I thought we should discuss it again.
First of all, I still stand by my original thoughts about Flash and SEO, however, Google has recently made some interesting improvements. One problem flash developers were facing was that [...]
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