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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.

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Mobile Web Development

Optimizing Your Website for the Mobile-First World

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No website is complete these days without considering mobile. Based on recent data, mobile devices now account for over 58% of global website traffic, with smartphones alone responsible for more than half of this share. Another report from DataReportal shows that over 92% of internet users access social media via mobile devices daily. It’s essential […]

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Blogging Social Media Web Development

How To Make Social Sharing Buttons Display Faster and Measure Their Effectiveness

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As a follow up to “Which Bookmarking & Sharing Buttons Should I Display On My Site“, I wanted to talk a bit about how to make those buttons display faster and how to measure their effectiveness. I’ve spent some quality time with social sharing buttons mostly because of my experience developing a social sharing plugin […]

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Digital Marketing Social Media

Getting Ready For Social Media in 2012

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I attended an AMA event a few weeks ago where Tomeeka Farrington spoke about The Future of Social Media. As we continue to scratch the surface of how the internet can enable us to connect and share with others around the world it’s important to continue to innovate and expand upon these ideas to make […]

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Social Media

Automating The Internet With ifttt

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A relatively new site has peaked my interest called ifttt (If This Than That). I never really fully embraced a social media automation tool until now.

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Twitter

New To Twitter? Learn Who To Follow

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My girlfriend just joined Twitter and I find myself trying to explain how to get Twitter followers. When I joined Twitter a few years ago everybody followed pretty much everyone who followed them.