Sat.Apr 16, 2011 - Fri.Apr 22, 2011

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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability

Waxing UnLyrical

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. Of course, this is merely my opinion, but having seen a number of blogs that don’t seem to do this, I thought it time to tell the rest of you grasshoppers why this is important.

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Change Before Mediocrity Grows on You

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Shakirah Dawud. Changing won’t be easy. You know this, so you’ll spend the entire process weighing the pros and cons, predicting whether this is something you “really need” or just a lark. You’ll wonder whether it’s a change you can “live with” (or what, I wonder?) and what other people will think. You’ll stall for all those reasons, pretending you’re still thinking about it when really you’re avoiding the thought of it the way you would a plague-infested rat.

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That Time Our Website Was Hacked

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Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski. The afternoon of March 28 was not a super-happy-fun time for my department. Instead of seeing the University homepage, visitors were greeted with a black screen that had the messages: “Hacked by SecurityBus,” and “Sorry Admin you’ve just been hacked.”. My first reaction was to check if the institution’s blog—the piece I manage—was still up.

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Weekly Roundup: The Spin Sucks Edition

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I don’t think I’ve ever done this before. Devoted an entire Weekly Roundup to posts from one – yes, one! – blog. But that’s what you get for Gini Dietrich and her guest bloggers writing such smart posts that had me go, “Dammit, why didn’t I write that first?!&#. But she, and they, did. So I must, and will. 1.

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Peter H. Paulsen’s Inspiring Tale Continues to Resonate in 2024

Two years after its initial release, Peter H. Paulsen’s book, From Brick and Mortar to Prosperity, continues to inspire readers around the globe.

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Why Facebook’s New Safety Measures Are an Improvement

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Guest post by Matt LaCasse. The chief complaints I hear about Facebook are about its safety and security. Mark Zuckerberg and his team have heard the cries from the masses, and unveiled a bunch of new tools yesterday addressing these two issues. I’ll let you read the post to get all the details, but I wanted to highlight a couple of the big takeaways that I see with this announcement. 1.

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Lessons Learned From the Traveling iPhone

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You know how I told you I was out in Eugene, Ore., earlier this week ? It was a dramatic trip in more ways than one. But I’m going to focus on the “one&# for the purpose of this post. My United flight to Eugene went via San Francisco, which is always dangerous, because it makes me start wondering why we ever left the Bay Area in the first place.

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