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January 31, 2012

WordPress Isn’t Just For Websites Anymore

Over the past couple of years we’ve witnessed WordPress mature from its humble blogging roots into a full-featured content management system. The transition has been made possible by the rapid evolution of the WordPress plugin API and the tireless work of the WP core development team. As a result, WordPress has developed into a digital…

February 7, 2011

Presenting Bibliotype For WordPress

A few weeks ago, book designer Craig Mod released Bibliotype, an HTML template system that designers can use to explore typography on the iPad.
Bibliotype is a thoughtful approach to designing typography for long-form reading on tablet devices. The template includes support for several viewing distances, portriat and landscape orientations, and a hyphenation library, among…

January 2, 2011

WordPress Solves Government Finance Officers’ CMS Challenges

As professional associations go, the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers (CSMFO) has always been something of an innovator. As far back as the mid-90′s the organization embraced the web as a critical tool for communication and member services. Over the past decade-plus CSMFO has used its website to bring together a geographically disbursed group…

January 6, 2010

Lessons Learned From a $27 eBook

Two months ago I asked my Twitter followers to tell me the most they had ever paid for an ebook. The answers I got ranged from a low of $0 to a high of $24.
On New Years Eve I tweeted a book recommendation for Digging Into WordPress… and 5 minutes later four of my

August 25, 2008

Corporate Reputation Management Revisited

I recently spoke about corporate reputation defense with a reporter for a pharmaceutical trade publication called MedAdNews. The article is finally on the publication’s website, and it provides some interesting insight into the challenges corporations face in protecting their reputations online. This issue is applicable to businesses of all sorts, not just pharmaceutical companies.
I…

April 18, 2008

Twitter and Your Brand

If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to work Twitter into your online brand and reputation monitoring efforts. While you’re at it, you may want to think about actually using Twitter as a way of engaging your customers.
Not so long ago Twitter seemed like it might be a passing fad. Recently, the service…