The 25 Best WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a beast of a Web publishing platform. Since its 2003 debut, WordPress has been downloaded over 60 million times, and powers 22 of every 100 new active domains in the United States according to the company. WordPress' popularity and ease of use spawned a rich plugin ecosystem that gives users the ability to improve, display related articles that will potentially interest readers, track RSS feed traffic, credit authors in new ways, and much more. Read more on PCMag.com

Social Business Success Requires Looking Inward

Focus as much energy on how your employees, partners, and shareholders experience your business as you do your existing and prospective customers. Retailers know exactly what scents, colors, and music to use in their physical environments that facilitate an experience that drives sales. Industrial designers spend time trying to evoke an emotional response from the users of a product. Read more on InformationWeek.com

Good Practice: Advertising in Cyberspace

Advertising on the Internet continues to develop. It is inexpensive and measurable, interactive, sometimes fun, and can be viewed anytimie, night and day. Use it to reach new markets locally, nationally and globally. Make your website a promotional tool in its own right, so that it acts as an interactive brochure. Advertise on others' sites perhaps with banner adverts, which are the main advertising vehicle on the Net, or animated or static adverts, often found on search engine sites which, if clicked on, lead viewers directly to your site.

5 Brilliant Creative Campaigns That Used Instagram

Instagram has amassed over 100 million users since it first launched and although there are no advertising options on the platform yet, what we are seeing are a bunch of brands getting involved with their own creative campaigns. The level of creativity here is amazing considering the fact that there are so few features to play with, but the real world examples show that with enough creative thinking, you can engage with a large number of consumers. Read more on Simplyzesty.com

You Design It, They Do It

What if someone came to you and said, “I’ve designed this great website, but people don’t stay on it. Why?” How would you respond? Would you ask them whether they have done extensive A/B testing? Would you recommend testing the usability of the website? People like to test a number of metrics to see why people are not staying on a website. I think sometimes we spend so much time focusing on analytics that we throw common sense out the window. Don’t get me wrong—analytics are a powerful tool for improving a website. But often the problem is right in front of your face. Read more on Smashingmagazine.com

Get Organized: Leave Your Job, Not Your Data

The economy lags. Business dries up. Your position isn't all that secure. If you were to be laid off today or quit your job unexpectedly, what would you do with the contents of your computer before you left the organization? How would you get your contacts information from Outlook, or grab all your personal files, and make sure you don't leave any stored passwords in your browser? Read more on InformationWeek.com

6 Reasons iOS 6 Jailbreaks Will Be Tough

Glory hounds hoping to jailbreak Apple's newest devices won't have an easy time of it. Security experts detail the challenges. Waiting for a jailbreak for the latest iOS 6 devices such as the iPhone 5? You might have to wait a while. Jailbreaking your iPhone is now legal in the United States, even if Apple has historically discouraged the process. With Apple's release last month of iOS 6, iPhone hackers have, of course, set their sites on jailbreaking the new OS. So far no automated jailbreak is available for latest-generation iOS devices that run iOS 6. But software hacker Grant Paul claimed, to All Things Digital, that he'd jailbroken an iPhone 5 less than 24 hours after its release. Read more on InformationWeek.com