Mere seconds after Boston bombings, the social media sphere was buzzing. Soon the buzz turned to a loud reverberation as posts, blogs, podcasts, tweets, pins, retweets, reblogs, repins and shares spread the news like wildfire. Social media once again proved to be a powerful tool for news events, to get the word around the world in just a matter of seconds. Events taking place in any corner of the globe are being used more and more to leverage tweets, posts, blogs and various other forms of social media communication. However, there is a black and white side to it, isn’t […]
CoSchedule: Content Scheduling Coming Soon?
We referenced CoSchedule previously and didn’t have much information at that time because it was just a sneak peek but we’ve finally heard a few sound bytes from them over at their blog about what they are planning on releasing and it keeps getting better and better. Our goal is to ease the scheduling frustrations that come with blogging, social media, working in a team, and even email marketing. We believe that scheduling should be easy, intuitive, and even a little bit fun. It seems that CoSchedule is going to be a management solution for your blog’s content – and […]
The WordPress Weekend Roundup
Another crazy week this week, right? I feel like there’s a never-ending flood of great content that’s being created about WordPress and related topics of conversation. It makes our jobs incredible easy and incredibly difficult at times because we have to identify the topics that we want to cover more fully and the ones that we can only point to and say “Go check this out!” In anycase, here’s your weekly roundup of conversations that you may have missed:
Companies Using WordPress For Applications
There’s a growing movement in the WordPress development community which has begun to see WordPress as a platform for not only building blogs and sites, but for using WordPress for Applications, as well. It’s near impossible to capture all of the services that are doing this (though please contact us if you are!), we do what we can to feature them here and to highlight why this is significant especially within the context of our favorite platform. Personally, I’m interested in this and I dig covering other people who are doing just that.
Online Dating, Social Media Etiquette, and Connection
In the above video Juliette, from another online dating service Zoosk, share her thoughts on social media etiquette which is relevant to not only online dating but online engagement in general. I thought it would be worth reminding all of us (myself included!) these very basic principles of being on your best behavior. Juliette’s Top 3 Tips for Social Media Etiquette: Mind your manners – Just because everyone else has bad manners doesn’t mean you need to as well! Think before you speak – Otherwise you’ll say something you’ll regret and once it’s out there it’s out there. Play well […]
No Comments