6 Tips for a More Secure WordPress Website

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WordPress powers nearly 73M (million!) websites around the World, making it the most popular CMS in existence right now. About 15% of the top one million sites on the web use WordPress, including business heavyweights like Honda, the New York Times, CNN, NASA, TechCrunch and others. Those are some impressive stats for something that started [...]

Day One – Starting From Nothing

I guess you could say this post was inspired by Chris Brogan. In more ways than one. First, it’s about why I’m excited, and you should be too, about a recent newsletter update of his. And second, it’s because he challenged me. In response to an email I sent him about the newsletter, I admitted to him I had a hard time with content creation. And he challenged me to make this my day one of content creation. So here goes.

Try What If Instead of If Only

An entrepreneur recently posed a question to a group I’m a part of and asked, “What is <insert his city> missing?” The issue is that while he has had some successful ventures, success in his city is apparently not the norm. Not for startups anyway. To be honest, I’m not sure success is the norm [...]

Even The Ordinary Has Value

My grandfather's straight razor

This time of year there’s a lot of resolution-themed updates and articles flying around. And I’m always all for it. One I shared recently was advice for 20-somethings that ranged from backing up your hard drive to becoming more politically informed. I shared it with my network with a note that those tips aren’t just [...]

Good Spaces and Third Rooms

I was introduced to the idea of good spaces and third rooms a few weeks ago during a talk at TEDxBuffalo and I’ve been fascinated by the concept ever since. I think it stuck with me because it finally provided a name for a concept I had been thinking about but couldn’t really identify. Ethan [...]