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 [...]
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 link to your Twitter account
You’re social bookmarking buttons don’t work
I can’t find any contact info
I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the Internet moving at the speed of light it is important that companies keep up in an age of on-demand lifestyles. It may not be for everyone, but for most it is essential that you be kept up to date in the latest communication methods. Furthermore it is more important than ever that your [...]
Twitter Spam, we all hate it and want it to go away … but what is IT?
The general population of Twitter tends to classify spam as unsolicited promotional material that provides little to no value to the community.
Some (possible) examples of this are:
Bots that RT specific users
TwitterFeeds of blog posts
Affiliate link feeds
Software that forces you [...]
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