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Eating Dogfood (& off to Burning Man)

August 27, 2010

(Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes)

“You have to eat your own dogfood” goes the saying in software.
Have you ever heard that before? The meaning is simple: use the software you build. It’s sort of like “practice what you preach,” and as usual, both are easier said than done.
What it means around Website In [...]

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How to Spot an Effective Design

August 25, 2010

(Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes)

How to Spot an Effective Design
-by Jason Amunwa
One of the hardest things to do as a client is objectively evaluate work submitted to you. After all, you’ve hired other people to do it for you because they’re the experts, right? Nowhere is this more true, in my humble opinion, than [...]

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Repurpose your blog posts – BPE 0.7.3 Metholz has arrived

August 24, 2010

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Blogging is a pastime of passion and perserverance. Here’s Bob Hayles take on the matter:

July 26, I wish…
…tomorrow, and BPE, would hurry and arrive.
July 27…ITS HERE…YIPPEE!!!
July 28…damn, there is a LOT of sh1t here to pick up on…I’ll deal with tags, keywords, catagories, and SEO descriptions on the first [...]

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5 Tips for Social Media Efficiency

August 22, 2010

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In 2010, I, along with my colleague, Denise Wakeman, ran a survey to help define what people most wanted to know about social media. We received more than 300 responses. (You can get the results of the survey here: Get [...]

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Thickbox Ajax Form Handling in WordPress

August 20, 2010

(Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes)

“Code is poetry.”
You’ve probably seen that little epigram floating around the net. If you code, you “get it.” If you don’t code, it’s not hard to understand: whatever intrinsic beauty is latent in a piece of code should be found.
As with poetry, finding that latent beauty is the [...]

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Automatic Social Media Exposure – Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #4

August 18, 2010

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Benefit: Increase exposure to individual posts and website through Social Media and to your newsletter list automatically.
Problem: Lack of knowledge of what tools to accomplish this and assuring that they are working properly.
Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #4
How a Virtual Assistant can help:
Various tools exist to [...]

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Be Consistent to Write Better

August 16, 2010

(Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes)

I was a creative writer for ten years before I became a Technical Writer. When that happened, when I started learning all the tips and tricks Technical Writers use to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. I was astonished by how much I didn’t know [...]

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Building Your Blogging Skill Set (outsourcing isn’t everything)

August 14, 2010

(Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes)

You’re a publisher. Did you know that? Likely, you’re also a product developer, a marketer, a promoter (is there a difference?), a writer, an editor, a technical genius (compared to your mother-in-law at least), and a social media maven. You can sling some HTML and CSS, and [...]

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