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Digital Marketing Facebook

Rethinking The Facebook Like Gate

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Facebook is constantly making changes (that’s not the first time I’ve started a blog post with those words). It’s part of who they are and ultimately it’s a good thing for all of us. The algorithms that control what content you see in your news stream got a big update that had a huge effect […]

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WordPress

Did WordPress Do That?

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WordPress is tremendously powerful, mostly because of its enthusiastic community. I’m constantly surprised at how many people still think WordPress is just for blogging. Check out this pie chart that shows CMS distribution across thousands of websites. WordPress is easily the most popular. What I thought was even cooler was that WordPress did a survey […]

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Gen-Y Rant

Two Thoughts That Get Me By

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I don’t really get into the motivational stuff on this blog which is funny because I love to give advice in real life. I jumped into the workforce a bit earlier than some of my friends which has given me time to figure out what I want to do. It’s been about 9 years and […]

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Social Media Twitter

How I Get The Most Out Of TweetDeck

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As soon as the first Twitter clients allowed for multiple column views I was on board. I bounced between Seesmic, TweetDeck and HootSuite but always came back to TweetDeck. So while these clients can achieve similar functionality I will be talking about how I specifically use TweetDeck. Managing Multiple Accounts The main reason I started using TweetDeck […]

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Digital Marketing Social Media

Making Your Website Social

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It’s a popular question with a not so straightforward answer. With everyone talking about social media, how can websites easily adopt online social technologies to increase engagement across their brand.

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How To Plugins WordPress

Creating Presentations With Custom Post Types

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I wanted to come up with a cool way to showcase how powerful custom post types were for the Boston WordPress meetup.

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WordPress

Why You Should Check Out Your Local WordPress Meetup

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I recently joined Kurt Eng as an organizer of the Boston WordPress Meetup. I also got to help organize and run this past Boston WordCamp.

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Digital Marketing How To Social Media

Getting The Most Out Of Your RSS Reader: Finding The Most Relevant Content

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As I explained in my last post, I’ve got about an hour before I get to work where I need to consume as much content as possible. Ideally I would like to get to the good stuff as quick as I can.

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Blogging How To

Getting The Most Out Of Your RSS Reader: Full Posts Instead Of Summaries

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Keeping up with all of your favorite blogs and news sites can be time-consuming. There are new blogs with amazing content popping up every day and it can get very hard to keep track of them all.

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WordPress

Keeping Up With WordPress

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There are tons of ways to keep up with developments in the WordPress community. In this post I wanted to share some of my favorite sources of information when it comes to WordPress.