I recently had a few requests for Mandrill alternatives for transactional email service in light of the Mandrill Policy Changes announced yesterday. I am providing a formal list of some very good alternatives, some of which I have experience using. If you haven’t read the specifics around the Mandrill Policy…
Read More I would like to talk about the Mandrill policy changes announced today, but first let me start off by explaining what Mandrill is for those of you who don’t know. Mandrill is Mailchimp’s transactional email service that was (until today) a completely separate product offering from their promotional e-newsletter marketing…
Read More Google has taken an unusual step and officially confirmed it is making some rather noticeable search updates to its core algorithm right now. This was partly due in response to thousands of webmasters that took to forums and social media about the disruption and major fluctuation in web rankings the…
Read More I got away from Hootsuite awhile back, but decided to give it another whirl. In the past when integrating social media platforms it would take a combination of RSS, Hootsuite, and Ping.fm. Looks like those days are behind us and social media integration is pretty straight forward. Social Media Integration…
Read More WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system (blog platform before slowing becoming a preferred CMS) built on PHP and MySQL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is modern software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. Since its official…
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