GeekWire Interview: World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on the fight for the web's future

The importance of quality content for SEO

Writing high-quality content should be a key aspect of every SEO strategy. Content writing requires some of your creative writing skills, though. And let’s be honest, many blogs are hardly readable and not at all informative, entertaining nor inspiring. Now, we can’t all be Hemingway, but you should make an effort to write well. Why?

Child Theme Check Plugin Helps WordPress Users Navigate Parent Theme Updates – WordPress Tavern

Child themes have been in use in WordPress for more than seven years and the concept of using them to extend a parent theme is now an established best practice in theme development. The idea is tha…

Workshop Series - Marketing Powering your Business - Monday, June 13

SCORE Chicago: Marketing is vital throughout a business to give you direction, to help you to set goals/objectives that will contribute to your success, and to ensure that everyone involved is focused on the same targets.

By the Numbers: 5 Simple Ways to Building Practical Measurement and Evaluation Competence Tickets, Tue, Jun 14

PRSA Suburban Chicago Chapter presents By the Numbers: 5 Simple Ways to Building Practical Measurement and Evaluation Competence - Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at D.O.C. Wine Bar, Lombard, IL.

Technori - Sizzling Summer Tech - Tue, Jun 28, 2016

Technori - Sizzling Summer Tech - June 2016 - Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at Chase Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois.

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iPhone: Create with Live Photos, Google Research - Warning, only for iPhone 6 or greater.

3 Unusual Lessons We Learned by Studying Over 16 million Posts (And 100,000 Brands) on Social Media - The Buffer Blog

We studied over 14 million tweets and two million Facebook updates from more than 100,000 accounts. Here's what we learned...

Facebook now lets you upload 360-degree photos to the News Feed | The Verge

Facebook is finally letting users upload and view 360-degree photos right in the News Feed. After capturing a panorama or 360-degree photo with their native smartphone camera or a third-party app,...

How-To Sell Digital Downloads, The Easy Way | The "Write" Actions

mp3’s ~ .pdf’s ~ ebooks ~ and more! There are two types of sellers out there. Those starting a company specifically retail devoted to selling digital goods, and those I like to refer to…

Price still drives online purchases

Price continues to trump all other factors in determining where consumers buy online: 87% of consumers in a recent survey cited price as “very” or “extremely” influential.

Image optimization: Common mistakes and solutions

In 2016, all modern websites are media rich. Amongst other media, images themselves represent over 60% of the average byte per content type downloaded when a

Snapchat Redesign Lets Users ‘Subscribe’ to Discover Publishers - WSJ

Snapchat has redesigned its “Stories” page to more prominently highlight content from the media companies that post directly to the app. The new page allows the some 20 publishers on the Discover section of the app to display an image and headline promoting their stories.

Twitter pivots away from Buy buttons

While the social network isn't doing away with its direct-sale initiative, it is focusing its attention on ads that drive consumers to retailers' sites.

Jet.com boosts conversion by adding details to product pages

The online marketplace is working with website testing service UserTesting to get instant feedback that helps it quickly improve to Jet.com.