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Things to Consider Before Changing Your Company’s Name

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November 18, 2013

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Big News This Week This past week there was news of 3 different name changes by companies you may know. The first announcement came from ZippyKid, who decided to change their name to Pressable. The second announcement came from MaxCDN about their various brands (HDDN, cloudcache, and NetDNA). They’ve now consolidated brands to simply MaxCDN and MaxCDN Enterprise. The third announcement came from VeloMedia as they announced the acquisition of Crowd Favorite. And even though they were acquiring the company, the announcement included the fact that they were going to move forward under the Crowd Favorite name instead of VeloMedia. […]

7 Ways to a Better “Busy”

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November 15, 2013

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What Does “Busy” Mean? For most WordPress freelancers, business is good. And for some, it’s almost too good. When I was at PressNomics recently, I spoke to lots of WordPress freelancers who all said the same thing: I’m very busy, business is great! Just too much to work on…you know the deal. But at every conference or WordCamp, I also overhear a lot of complaints about clients changing the brief mid-project, dragging their feet on content deadlines, or generally frustrating the creative process. So I have to wonder, is it good to be “busy”—if that means more stress and less creative […]

Managing a Larger WordPress Community

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November 14, 2013

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When I first got into WordPress in 2009, I never thought that years later I’d be helping to manage an active 2,200+ online Advanced WordPress (AWP) Community, or a 30+ Local AWP Monthly San Diego Meetup. Over the years, community building within the WordPress space has been a hard road full of personalities and individual interests. But it’s something that I enjoy doing and have a lot of passion for. When I was recently approached by Torque to become a regular “Community” contributor, I realized that I do have a lot to say about this amazing community, and a lot that I […]

My Experience of Editorially

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November 13, 2013

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Editorially is a new platform for document creation, editing, and collaboration. By itself, it’s a compelling writing alternative in a landscape that’s become excitingly crowded lately. Editorially offers lots of export choices: HTML, Rich Text, Plain Text, .docx, LaTeX, and ebook. But for those of us in the WordPress community, it’s probably Editorially’s one-click post to WordPress and Markdown editing that makes us start comparing it to other new platforms like Ghost and to the WordPress editor itself. What’s Markdown? So, what is Markdown? We all know what Markup is. HyperText Markup Language is what Tim Berners-Lee created when he invented the […]

Responsive Sliders with the Soliloquy Plugin

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November 12, 2013

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When used properly, sliders can be helpful. I’m hard pressed to find a site these days that doesn’t have one. But coding up a slider module can be very difficult. And now that responsive design is all but mandatory, it’s even more so. That’s why Thomas Griffin built Soliloquy. Responsive and Easy What really jump out for me are the layers the plugin is built on. On the surface, it’s really easy to get started with your first slider. Thomas even brags that it can be done in 60 seconds. (In my experience, it’s more like a minute and a half…) […]

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