Issue 68 of Scott's Weekly Wrap.
Do I just start blogging or focus on social media first?
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The new WordPress Plugin Directory went live today. Contributors have been working for the past year on rebuilding the directory with a new design and better capabilities for searching through the …

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Things of the Week

And they're pushing the rest of us toward a “Potemkin internet,” a mere shell of the web we know today.

An A+ in customer experience is a powerful weapon when it comes to growing a side hustle into a full-fledged business.

Early Adopters are ideally already seeking a solution to the problem you are attempting to solve with your new product or service. Do you give up, just because no one is seeking a solution? Do you…

Social Front
Author Jill Schiefelbein chats with Peter Shankman, founder of Shank Minds Masterminds and podcast host of Faster Than Normal, about how to best communicate with your audience.

Facebook is getting more serious about the role it plays in your political life. The social network rolled out a civic outreach tool in the U.S. that identifies your elected officials, sends reminders to vote and goads you to pick up the phone.

"These are not specific nonprofits, but they are important, critical financial needs."

Facebook is taking another shot at Snapchat, introducing three new camera-centric features to its main Facebook app, including one that allows users to create montages that vanish within 24 hours—just like Snapchat’s Stories.

Whenever you reply to an individual or a group of Twitter users, the user names of those people won't subtract from your tweet's 140 character count.

Strategic Search

Google has quietly added new rich results markup for podcasts in the developer center. Aaron Bradley seemed to have first spotted this and posted it on Google+ saying that

Go you!

It’s common to feel tired after a long day at work or to need a holiday after a month-long sprint to finish a new feature. But sadly it’s also common to feel tired all the time. To lack…

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