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We All Need To Think Like Consumers

January 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

For the past several weeks, I have been perusing the Internet for information about WordPress for newspapers. Currently, the publications I serve are on Joomla and I really would like to make the switch to a different CMS.

You can imagine my excitement when I ran across a video from Toronto WordCamp 2012 titled, “WordPress for Newspapers.”

I downloaded the video and scheduled some time to sit back and take in the knowledge that I so desperately wanted.

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(CC) Richard Riley Via Flickr. Modified by David Specht

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What To Do When You Think You Don’t Have Enough Followers

January 18, 2013 — Leave a comment
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If I were to compare myself to Michael Hyatt, I would feel pretty inadequate. Michael’s “Intentional Leadership” blog has more than 305,000 total subscribers. I have 10 (as of this writing).

His blog averages more than 302,000 unique visitors per month. Mine averages 164.

Michael has nearly 167,000 Twitter followers. I have 167.

Sounds pretty depressing doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t depressing at all.

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It’s A Dangerous (Cyber) World Out There

December 26, 2012 — Leave a comment

I suppose it was bound to happen. I just didn’t think it would be quite this soon. My blog was compromised by malware links, etc. — and Google didn’t like it at all.

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Image Courtesy of Google, Inc.

I received emails from Google Webmaster Tools, Google Adwords and Google Analytics. My site would soon be “blacklisted.” That’s a death sentence for websites.

Of course I wondered, “Why?”

Why my site?

Why my readers?

Why me?

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