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In Defense of “In Case You Missed It” (or ICYMI)

January 21, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

In case you missed it, or ICYMI, is one of those new-fangled Internet terms that people use when tweeting something that they’ve previously tweeted. Ultimately, it’s a strategy to raise awareness to a group of followers that may have missed something when sharing it the first time.

It used to annoy me so much.

I get it. You’ve shared something. You want more people to see it. Why not just expect them to catch up on their feeds later?

What a bad attitude. I know. Bear with me, though.

Check your computer, check your phone.

As I’ve done before, I decided to give it a try. And you know what? It works. I’ve no problem admitting that I was wrong, nor do I have a problem defending the whole idea behind it.

If you’re a blogger or someone who has a following or is working on building a following or you just want people to see your content, then go for it.

Introducing Shorter Blog Posts

January 20, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

In a previous post, I began talking about how one of the things I wanted to begin doing this year is to introduce shorter blog posts.

Notes

Because the truth is with the amount of information coming from other blogs, Twitter, and whatever other social networks and news sources you read, odds are that this site is one that can also be easily marked as read or thrown into Pocket oblivion never to be read again.

And I’m perfectly okay with that! But if I can make any changes on my end to help mitigate that, then why not?

Local WordPress Meetups (Mine and Yours)

January 19, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Local WordPress Meetups, versus WordCamps and other similar events, are really cool events if you can find them in your area.

Luckily, I live in a place where there are meetups for users, for developers, for those looking to get started in WordPress, and everything in between. Needless to say, I’m proud of the Atlanta-area WordPress community (speaking of which, are you coming to WordCamp Atlanta?).

Local WordPress Meetups

A few years ago, I participated in my first local WordPress meetup: WordPress Gwinnett. It was generally what you’d expect. There were neat people, solid topics that were being discussed, and people learning about what other people were up to in their day-to-day with WordPress.

But then life happened (in a good way, to be clear) and I had to step away; however, things have settled and I’m ready to get back into attending the meetups the first of which is this week.

Must Read WordPress Articles 3

January 18, 2016 / Tom

On Christmas Eve of last year, I started this whole thing of sharing a list of articles that I think are must reads for anyone involved in WordPress. Ultimately, I ended up publishing the first two on US holidays.

And since today is a holiday in the US, I thought why not continue the trend?

Eventually, the list of articles is going to start looking like this.

In this post, I’ve got a small set of WordPress articles I think anyone involved in WordPress should read as well as a couple of bonus links for those who are involved in the PHP community at large.

Tips For Generating Blog Post Ideas

January 15, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Recently, Chris Lema published a blog post titled Have You Run Out of Blog Post Ideas? And if you haven’t read it, then I highly recommend it. (In fact, if you’re involved in WordPress, I highly recommend you subscribe to his blog.)

Running Out of Blog Post Ideas?

In the post, he shares some practical tips for how he comes up with ideas for blog posts. If you’re someone who’s looking to blog more regularly but aren’t sure how to do it, then the post gives you some great advice for how to help capture ideas and turn them into posts.

Since I try to blog daily and I try to make sure what I have to say isn’t something that’s meant to fill some type of weekly quota, I thought I’d follow suit and share how I go about coming up with ideas for posts and then turning them into actual posts.

Tom McFarlin