November 2014

21-Article iPaper Salute to TalentCulture

TalentCulture has just published Happy Anniversary TalentCulture #TChat Show!, a 21 article salute celebrating 4 years of their blogging community, #TChat Twitter chats, radio shows, and related world of work content, using our new iPaper technology. Of course, they’re not expecting anyone to read all 21 TalentCulture articles in a single sitting like some sort …

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November 2014

iPapers Bring PDF White Papers to Life!

For decades, B2B marketers have used PDF white papers to present their thought-leadership to interested prospects. The problem? PDFs are not reliable, trackable, digestible, sharable, or interactive. In fact, they downright stink at anything more than just flat content and static images. As part of a joint venture between JDM Digital and the B2B content …

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November 2014

Empty P-tags Shortcode Fix

It’s pretty common for custom WordPress shortcode functions to end up with a bunch of empty or dangling <p> and </p> tags. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater (disabling wpautop), here’s a handy little function from AJ Clarke, WP Explorer Owner, that’ll clear your code right up. Clean Up WordPress Shortcode Functions …

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November 2014

Google’s New Mobile-Friendly Labels

After months of testing, Google has just added Mobile-friendly labels in search engine results pages (SERPs) for websites that pass their mobile-friendly test. Curious if you qualify? Take the test and see. It has been on Webmasters’ radar for some time, but just today Google officially announced their new mobile labels are being rolled out. …

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November 2014

Hello iPaper. Goodbye PDF.

JDM Digital has released the BETA version of iPapers Media.

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November 2014

Pay Attention to Footers

Website footers are under-utilized and pretty much ignored by most web designers. But, if we are trying to find ways to improve the user experience, we shouldn’t neglect what’s at the end of the page. An engaging footer provides guidance and next steps. Why You Should Pay More Attention to Footers They say to mention …

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November 2014

Digital Agency Lingo Explained

Digital agencies, like the military, have our own (usually abbreviated) language. Before you get lost in the lingo, let’s go through a few of my favorite terms digital agency-types might throw at you. “Anchor Pricing” Anchoring or focalism is a cognitive bias agencies may recommend as a pricing strategy. Basically, it works on the common …

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November 2014

Reactvertising (sort of)

From the Toronto-based digital agency that brought us Catvertising, John St, introduces Reactvertising™ (trademarked, of course). As one client remarks in the video, “there’s no one better at not thinking than these guys.” in social-media-marketing-is-the-greatest-thing-ever circles. &modestbranding=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&rel=0&fs=1 I hope our friends understand the video is just a funny (albeit dark), tongue-and-cheek idea from a digital …

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