If you’re not, you need to be. I attended The Business of WordPress conference in Atlanta on June 23rd, which focused on the importance of WordPress as a business website, not just a blog. Continue reading
Category Archives: Career
WordPress 3.0 is finally here!
And here is the introduction video on all the killer features WordPress 3.0 has for developers and administrators. While I’m not a developer, I do manage my own site, and will be an administrator soon on another one for work. I’m so excited to start playing around with these features. Which ones are you most excited about? Continue reading
College Debt Costs Us All
Why are younger people REALLY waiting so long to get married, start families, and enter in to traditional definitions of adulthood? A NY Times article says it has to do with empowerment of women, and their desire to have careers, along with younger people being supported and helped by their parents for longer periods of time. This is highlighted in the article by the recent Obama administration implementation of people up to age 26 being able to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans.
But that’s where the explanation stops, and I don’t know about you, but that’s not nearly enough analysis. The first, BIGGEST, reason for young adults postponing all those things is money and finances, which is a direct result of TWO main things. The first one is the outrageous cost of college that imposes heavy responsibility on so many young people. Instead of saving money for a down payment on a house, or a new car, or for a wedding, or even for their future children to go to college, they are shelling out hundreds and hundreds of dollars a month to pay back student loans.
Flash Finale
Sure, Flash is great for banner ads, gaming, and some mobile applications, but for your website, you should be using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Continue reading
Managing Expectations: Facebook
This will be the first part in a series on how we online community-builders, social networkers, and interactive marketers can manage expectations in the workplace from our superiors. Continue reading
Facebook: Changing the Internet
In much the same way that Apple changed forever the way we listen to music, Facebook is changing the way we use the internet. More than 7 out of every 100 visits to web sites are to Facebook, making Google #2.
Outbound Marketing? "You Oughta Know" Better
HubSpot’s Rebecca Corliss sings about the horrible life of an outbound marketer to Alanis Morissette’s hit, “You Oughta Know.”
I'm Talking About Your Brand…Are You Listening?
If all the world’s “a-twitter”, do you know what people are saying about you? Do you know how to get meaningful data from all that Twitter chatter?
There are a few ways on Twitter to manage your online brand and see what people are saying about you.