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  7824 readers After receiving an unprecedented volume of questions regarding Google+ from clients and non-techie business executives, I was asked to write a blog post for Hammock.com that provided an overview of the service — “but not written for people who are geeks” (a direct quote). I asked for a list of questions and then, last weekend,

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  WordPress and Tumblr Themes for Designers

  4710 readersBlogging is a great way to promote your graphic design business. When you set up a blog, you’ll be asked to select or code your own “theme,” which basically dictates the look and feel of the blog. Most blog themes focus on writing and not on posting images. If you plan on posting lots of photographs and

• RexLinks for November 12th

  1011 readersRexLinks are items I’ve bookmarked to share on Google Reader during the past 24 hours: In Central Park, Finding a Bed Among the Trees | NYTimes.com – While this article makes it sound as if these brothers thought up the idea of using a hammock for camping, I discovered several years ago, via a way-ward

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  Customer media: The always new old idea

  2235 readersinstapaper_embed( "http://www.rexblog.com/2013/04/30/49231", "Customer media: The always new old idea", "" );On the Hammock Blog, I’ve contributed a post the 12 readers of RexBlog may find familiar. It’s about my former long-running complaint-rant about those who keep hanging the “new” adjective on media created by companies for their customers. (The only thing new is the form

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  How many curators does it take to curate a story about lightbulbs?

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• Hired my first employee

  2139 readersHopefully, not the last. Her name is Iwona. She just finished a year of graphic arts school. I asked her before she started how much time they spent on WordPress. In a year of classes, they spend a total of one week on WordPress. Uh oh, I said, you're gonna a LOT of time in WordPress when you

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  On another content channel, you can find news about content

  1339 readers On Hammorati, the Hammock Inc. Blog, there’s a post about the Custom Publishing Council changing its name to the Custom Content Council. As one of the people who help form the organization 11 years ago, I concur with the decision. Despite my personal problems with the word “content,” I’ve given up on fighting the fight

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  Your-name-here publication design is fill-in-the-blank.

  1394 readersYou know how there are companies that  match up a business that needs a logo with a logo designer — actually, with hundreds of designers: companies like HP’s Logo Works. And you know how you can find thousands of free-lance designers on sites like eLance. And you know how there is an entire marketplace (and

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  My predictions for the future of print magazines

  2202 readersPublished in 1741, Ben Franklin’s General magazine shut-down after six issues, making it the first example in the U.S. of why there is no future in print magazines.On the Hammock blog, a post I wrote was added this morning that outlines 14 predictions I have for print magazines. It’s rather long, but I felt the

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  My predictions for the future of print magazines

  1909 readersPublished in 1741, Ben Franklin’s General magazine shut-down after six issues, making it the first example in the U.S. of why there is no future in print magazines.On the Hammock blog, a post I wrote was added this morning that outlines 14 predictions I have for print magazines. It’s rather long, but I felt the