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Blogworld Hits New York (a recap)
Reading time: 4 minutesI’m flying on my last flight back from New York (and thankful that these flights fared better than my incoming flights to LaGuardia). I finally have a little bit of time to rest, recouporate, and put into words all of the ideas, feelings, and emotions that I’ve experienced over the last week. I’ve met a…
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Why Marketers (and others) Should Learn About WordPress at BlogWorld (#bweny)
Reading time: 2 minutesI’ve made no qualms in (sometimes a little too much) mentioning that I will be speaking one week from today at BlogWorldExpo in New York City. I’m pretty excited, considering that I missed last year’s conference for the birth of our lovely son #2 (Sorry BlogWorld, it was totally worth it :). As such, I’ve…
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WordPress 3.2: A First Look
Reading time: 2 minutesI’ve just downloaded a local copy of the brand spanking new WordPress 3.2beta1 – and let me be the first to say… it’s gorgeous. Simplicity is the motto here, and the UI design team has done an outstanding job in streamlining a lot of the elements down. I mean, take a look at this new…
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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 9: Resurrecting Old Content
Reading time: 2 minutesLet’s face it – you’ve been blogging for a long time now. You’ve got lots and lots of great content, but some of it can get buried in the shuffle. You tend to have 3-5 posts that get a lot of content, but the rest are just sort of… there. Freeloading and drinking your Google…
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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 8: Proper Permalinks
Reading time: 3 minutesThis post is the eighth of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”. During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can…
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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 7: A Sitemap
Reading time: 2 minutesThis post is the seventh of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”. During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can…
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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 6: Quicker Blogging with Shortcodes
Reading time: 2 minutesWhen it comes to blogging, one of the biggest reasons people stop is the lack of time it takes to effectively update a blog. I’m always on the lookout for tips that I can give to people to help them blog quicker without sacrificing content.
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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 5: Tags vs Categories (and more)
Reading time: 3 minutesThis post is the fifth of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”. During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can…
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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 5: Switching to Drupal
Reading time: 1 minuteI can’t even type this post with a straight face – nothing but love to all of my Drupal friends, though! It has its time and place, but for a blog, WordPress is always the way to go. The real Day 5 Post is coming soon.
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The GoDaddy Fiasco… And What You Can Do
Reading time: 1 minuteIf you have been following the Twitterverse today, no doubt you’ve seen the outrage by people who have seen the video of GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons shooting an elephant on camera (link here: http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/). I’m not surprised, honestly, but I think GoDaddy has a lot of other problems besides their CEO euthanizing elephants – they…
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