Social Media
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BuddyPress: Build an Online Community
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9 minutesBuddyPress stands out as a my a great solution for creating social networks within a WordPress site. It has piqued my interest since for several years. I ended up building a site for my own community, but Discord disrupted that project. I’m still eager to build using this unique plugin. I’m sure I’ll find a…
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The Psychology of Engagement
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4 minutesPromoting yourself online is, by now, a decades old pursuit. AI tools have provided an easy way to generate content and many uses can be unethical. An important part of the whole exercise is to first provide a thoughtful prompt to the systems you are using but to also read the content, evaluate the veracity…
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Leveraging LinkedIn for Freelance Web Development
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4 minutesLinkedIn isn’t a new tool for web development success. It has definitely grown to become a huge marketplace for job seekers and content creators. In the past there were classified ads and places like Craigslist. Digging through gig work boards was a daily task when I started. I like to focus on my experience as…
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From GeoCities to TikTok: The Evolution of Online Self-Publishing
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5 minutesI have lived through several big moments in internet history. With many of them fresh in my mind, I want to briefly cover where some of this technology came from, and where the companies behind the technology went wrong. Obviously, many of the biggest moments are tied together with the innovations and creations of social…