Category: Blog
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Your First Community Members – Where to Find Your VIP Seeds
Communities that thrive over the long term don’t start with a flash. They begin as a small gathering and grow into a fun party. The right way to start isn’t with a mass email and a broad appeal. It’s with exclusive invitations to a select few who you know will talk and communicate—and eventually attract…
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Five Different Types of Online Communities
I’m really looking forward to helping your community grow and thrive. Let’s talk about the five different kinds of communities that come together online.
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PeepSo 1.2.0 Has Native WordPress oEmbed Support
I know what you’re thinking: “Wow! Fantastic! Superb! Awesome! Fabulous… Huh?” You were right the first time. oEmbed in PeepSo 1.2.0 is a way of presenting a link on a website. Instead of showing blue text and an underline, you get to show the actual content you want to share. So if you wanted to show…
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Starting Your Online Community
Together with my Team, I see my role as helping to make sure that your community grows and thrives. In this blog series, I’ll share with you a series of tips that will enable you to get more out of PeepSo and help you to turn your users into a real society.
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Interview: Bridie Amelia Designs
Bridie has been working with WordPress since 2011, and is really passionate about the platform; her website includes an entire page devoted to explaining why she thinks people should use WordPress, and the advantages it has over other web design choices. We interviewed her to find out more about what she does, why she loves…
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WordPress’ Takedown Request – Hall of Shame is Pure Awesome
WordPress gets thousands of takedown requests per day from rights-holders asserting that a user is in breach of copyright; and unlike some other internet companies (which outsource or just wave the requests through), they take the time to assess and follow up on all of them. It’s a good thing they do, because about half of the…
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Women of WordPress: Kim Parsell, aka #wpmom
While compiling our Women of WordPress list, we came across many touching tributes to Kim Parsell – a woman whose influence on the WordPress community was so significant that a memorial scholarship was established in her name by the WordPress Foundation after her untimely death earlier this year. This is what we found out about the…
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Women of WordPress: Defining Influence
There are a lot of great “Women of WordPress” or “women to follow on WordPress” posts out there; for the most part, the selections are based on the author’s personal preferences/favorites. If you amalgamate all these lists, you’re likely to get a pretty good picture of who’s making waves in the WordPress-sphere – or at…
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Women of WordPress: Karly Nimmo
Karly Nimmo is one of our featured Women of WordPress because she’s not only used WordPress as the foundation for her own incredibly popular podcast; she’s using WordPress to encourage and enable other women to create great podcasts too.
