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I’m a big curator of news. It doesn’t matter what the topic is; be it political, business, technology, sports, or whatever – taking advantage of the multiple streams of data across the Social InterWeb and organizing that information is what curation is all about. There are a handful of resources out there for curation, but [...]
In this business of digital publishing you run into a lot of people. The majority of folks are cool and willing to teach and provide assistance whenever and wherever they can. But then there’s a small few that go 2 steps above that. Those that are truly passionate about doing what is good and what [...]
A CMS is a content management system and this is basically a fancy term for a type of software that allows one to create a website or blog. One of the better known and most popular CMS software systems is WordPress. Started by a young guy named Matt Mullenweg just a few short years ago, [...]
Comments are so last year. What’s happening now, and what you need to focus on is conversations. That’s what Livefyre does. They actually take it a step further and focus on real-time conversations. I’ve used nearly every comment/discussion platform in the marketplace today for the WordPress platform. In the end, after all my bleeding edge [...]
The WordPress Community is one of the most dynamic and collaborative collective of like-minded folk I’ve ever seen. From both a professional and personal perspective, I’ve met a ton of great working companions, partners, and yes – friends by collaborating on WordPress projects. The culmination of all activities surrounding WordPress can be summed up in [...]
Blogging, digital publishing, whatever you want to call it – it’s what’s happening and it’s what’s big. Actually, it hasn’t even began to explode yet since the market has so much incredible potential. I, like millions of other bloggers use WordPress as our platform of choice for a number of reasons, but it eventually boils [...]
The ingeniousness of the development community never ceases to amaze me. There has already been a WordPress plugin created to visually display your posts in the same fashion as the new Facebook Timeline. Plugin: WP Facebook Timeline Description Create a visual linear timeline representation from your WordPress posts and other media sources in the style [...]
I recently gave a presentation at my local WordPress Meetup. The focus of my discussion was on Getting the Most Impact From Your Blogging Efforts. Putting emphasis on the most effective plugins out there that provide 4 specific functions: Help to Tell a story Help to Share a story Help to Track you content Help [...]
When I find a plugin that kicks butt, I want to share it with everyone. I’ve been searching everywhere for a quality WordPress plugin that allowed me to integrate a dynamic portfolio page within this blog. With the popularity of our infographic category – there had to be more of an effective means of displaying [...]
Once again those of us deeply engrained with the WordPress content management system have descended on our yearly meeting mecca – WordCamp SF 2011 was this past weekend and, without a shadow of a doubt, it was awesome ! I’ve attended a total of 3 WordCamps live and in person, but have followed, via Twitter [...]
James Hicks on , January 16, 2012, 10:02 pm
