Issue 74 of The Weekly Wrap
May Meetup: Find your bloom!
Learn how website traffic data can help you become a savvy web marketer! 

Join us on Tuesday, May 16 at NextDoor Chicago for a discussion on how Google Analytics Goals can help focus your internet marketing efforts: 

Setting up Google Analytics Goal in WordPress
Your website is one part of the marketing equation. Learn how digital marketers use Google Analytics to measu

WordPress

WordPress 4.8 kicked off in this week’s core developer meeting and the schedule for the upcoming release is now published. Beta 1 is scheduled for May 12 and the official release is targeted …

I think it was Shakespeare who once said, “To sidebar, or not to sidebar, that is the question.” Shakespeare was a smart dude. He knew that the best way to go about making a major life decision was to stop, take a moment to think through the potential consequences of that choice, and speak it aloud to a crowd so they could hear all sides of the argument. And you know what? I think that’s a brilliant way to tackle these big life questions and I’m going to do that same exact thing here today.

These days, it’s rare you’ll come across a website that doesn’t have any images. In fact, images are so important to the way we use the internet that they’ve become a necessity – especially if you want to market your website, project or service. In a study of over one million articles, BuzzSumo looked at how many blogs posts with images were shared, they looked at home many images, per how many words, got the best results.

Upcoming Events

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WP All Import (http://www.wpallimport.com/) is a tool which allows you to mass import and map data from a source CSV file into the WordPress database to cr

Things of the week

Net neutrality is in jeopardy again. We need another grassroots movement   By Ashley Boyd, VP Advocacy A little over two years ago, the mood here at Mozilla -- ...

Training software to accurately sum up information in documents could have great impact in many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research.

Cutting through the clutter on the web and finding the perfect candidate is no small task, but utilizing video can help you get the right people th...

Each story we tell has a shape and a style. Figuring out what that looks like and organizing your content to fit can be just as crucial to presentation success as the content itself. Talking to your different points is just as important as ever, but a visual configuration that reflects what you’re trying to …

At the age of 23, SoMe Connect Co-founder Aalap Shah left a great job with a top accounting firm to go and create his own company. He started in toys but is now looking to help others build their online brands and reach.

Social Front

The entire idea that Facebook and Google need to be regulated, perhaps as utilities, is based upon an ignorance of the very subject under discussion. And if we're honest about it incoherence isn't a great basis for public policy.

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s penalizing websites that contain little substantive content and junky advertising, the social network’s latest step to police its platform for …

You may see more posts that say "Contact Your Representative."

It confirms what we all already knew and we can't stop looking.

Amid mounting pressure from European leaders, Facebook and other social media companies are taking steps to combat the spread of fake news.

LinkedIn is the default social network to connect with business professionals - but it’s advertising platform hasn’t always been the first choice for marketers.

That being said, recent updates

Strategic Search

You don’t have to be an SEO expert for your event to rank on Google. Here’s three steps to improve your search rankings

Go You!

Being productive, working on the right things, and not letting busywork take over your day often comes down to how you schedule your work. As productivity expert Cal Newport says , scheduling your …

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