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Many people find themselves in an unfortunately position of being on a lesser blogging platform. I remember switching to blogger with the dreams of utilizing the free adsense spots, being able to completely customise the design and having my own domain for a mere £7 a year. What a bargain. Then a year or so in I realised I had made a mistake. Although blogger was a great platform it was just a blog, I couldn’t do some of the amazing things I saw happening on WordPress blogs and envy grew in my heart. Eventually, I made the jump to a self-hosted […]

As we continue to build out our new office space we’re trying to find places where we can insert opportunities for creativity. Jared, our designer, came up with a full floor-to-ceiling chalkboard paint idea that we finished out recently. And this morning we spent a least a few minutes putting our own “marks” on the wall – and we’d love for you to doodle something creative when you stop by (perhaps at WordCamp Atlanta 2013?)! Check out some of our initial doodles:

Medium is one of Ev Williams newest ventures – you know, that guy behind Blogger and Twitter, among other things, and it’s an online publishing system that’s already presenting some very innovative perspectives and implementations for both the end user/reader as well as the publisher. Why do something like this? Williams’ shares a few thoughts about the genesis: The ethos behind Medium is one of openness and democracy—like the Internet itself. Eventually we’ll be opening so anyone can post and create collections. But that’s not all… The beauty of the Internet is it allows anyone to put their thoughts out […]

In my recent post I suggested that perhaps checking your stats every ten seconds wasn’t a good thing. Okay I actually told you lot to get back to work but it’s a small difference, right? After I shared the post across various social networks I had some comments from people about some of the tips I suggested to get the most from your stats. Although everyone and their lolcat knows how to see total page views not everyone knows how to get down into the real nitty gritty of stats and the really useful information that they contain. I want to […]

There’s a lot of talk and movement this year around local meetups (as well as WordCamps) and I’ve been finding more and more great examples of local communities that are going all-out for their people and providing them as much value and resources as possible. For example, I stumbled upon one of New York City’s local communities @ WPNYC and it was neat to see what they’ve implemented for their community. For instance, they have created an entire BuddyPress community site for their members which is active daily: