Google announced last week that it will discontinue its popular content aggregation service, Google Reader, on the 1st of July 2013. This has caused quite a stir within the digital community. It is a huge blow to those of us that use the content syndication tool, as well as those of us who blog. Based on RSS (Really Simple Syndication), Google Reader with its intuitive and engaging interface is easily one of the most popular content syndicators in recent years, especially amongst influencers and power users. The fact, that most people now have Gmail accounts, only strengthened Google’s dominance in […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.21.2013
It’s Thursday everyone! It’s my favorite day of the week, even though I have sinus infection. 🙁 Luckily there’s some plugins to cheer me up! There are a few new and updated plugins to share with you. A few of the updated ones look familiar, so I’m guessing we covered them when they were new. Do you see any here that look interesting? I think the Send to Kindle looks pretty sweet. How about you?
Building Your First Content Marketing Empire
Yes, even a beginner online can build a content marketing empire given time, the right strategies and, a good understanding of what content marketing means. As someone who has spent his career online getting beginners going, it is amazing how fast people are realizing how important content really is. Most people, myself included, started our existence online through shortcuts and so-called “loopholes” we purchased, and in the end, they never worked. Eventually we found the right tools and platforms like WordPress and blogging to get us going. Here we will go over how you, the beginner to online marketing, can […]
Why WordPress Is Not Doomed
Last night, John shared a post on Is WordPress Doomed? It’s a good post that’s worth a read and I highly encourage everyone to read the article in question, as well. I’ve debated a long time—as in over 12 hours—on whether or not I wanted to share my opinions on this because is such a sensitive topic, and I don’t want to do any damage to the way the WordPress developer community is perceived. I care about our reputation and I want to have positive discussion with other developers. As someone who builds things for, blogs about, and contributes directly to […]
Building a Portfolio That Works for You in 2013
If you are a freelancer (and since the economic crash of 2008 it’s more likely that you are) then you need a portfolio to show off to prospective employers. But it isn’t just freelancers who need portfolios, with the concept of a “job for life” all but dead and buried you never know when you are going to need or want a change of job. Some people just set up a blog or “personal branding page” and leave it at that. It’s not a bad thing to do, it will certainly show off your abilities more than not having one, but perhaps you need […]
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