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Thursday, November 5, 2015

How to Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Blog

5 Tips for Using Social Media to Grow Your Blog

Social Media began as a means for people to share status updates and connect with friends and family. It didn’t have a business element to it, nor was it a tool used for marketing purposes. Now, things have changed.

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and all of the other major platforms are now a blogger’s bread and butter. If you want to promote your content and increase your traffic numbers, you need to put your posts out there, and social media is the way.

Of course, just posting constantly on random platforms isn’t the right way either. There’s a finesse to it. Today I’ll show you some creative and proven ways to leverage social media as a tool for growing your blog.

by Guest Author via Digital Information World

Why Southeast Asia Should Embrace the Open Source Movement

In the last five years, Southeast Asia has grown to become a big consumer of modern web technologies to create digital products and services. More and more tech companies from the United States are opening offices here, and many with the goal of building engineering and development offices for their regional needs.

Most recently, GrabTaxi announced a US$100 million engineering office in Singapore to develop the tools and services required to feed its global growth plans. And companies such as Apple, Facebook and CloudFlare have started building out engineering teams. They join hundreds of existing multi-nationals and many more startup companies in the hunt for talent in Singapore.

The preferred technology platform for these companies remains the Open Web. Morgan Stanley and comScore confirmed that even on mobile phones, the killer-app remains the browser, boasting twice the audience size in the United States and growing at a faster rate than apps—a trend that is visible in Southeast Asia as well.

Consumers are highly selective about their apps and memory usage, and for the very large amount of use cases that require no commitment, or fulfill immediate or less frequent consumer needs, the Internet is the more light-weight and appropriate solution. On top of that, the web has other advantages:

it’s supported on nearly every smart consumer device and does not require week long app-review cycles
it's based on open standards such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript that make it the most resilient platform and the one with the largest headcount
it's estimated that the amount of 18.5 million web developers in early 2014 worldwide has almost doubled since.

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by Thomas Gorissen via SitePoint

Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript from Airbnb community.

Table of Contents

Types
Objects
Arrays
Strings
Functions
Properties
Variables
Hoisting
Conditional Expressions & Equality

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The Best WordPress Backup Plugins Compared

With the increase of website attacks, now more than ever, there's a need to take regular and real-time backups of your website. There are some great WordPress plugins available that will give you peace of mind that you have a full working copy of your site that you can roll back to if you experience any issues. Backups play a critical part of your regular WordPress maintenance tasks, so it's important to get right!

In this article, we compare the 5 of the best WordPress backup plugins side-by-side. Before we dig into the most popular backup plugins available, let’s first look at some of the key features we’d expect to see in a good backup plugin.

Key Backup Plugins Features to Look For

Automatic Backups

The principal task of any backup plugin is automatic backups, which is the ability to set the time at which regular backup would be performed. Generally, every backup plugin comes with this option, since this is what every developer or owner of a website usually looks for.

Real-time Backups

What if you could monitor your site and synchronize your latest changes with your backups? The VaultPress plugin can do this, as well as scan your site for possible security issues.

Automatically Resume Failed Backups

With this feature, failed backups are detected and automatically resumed. The UpDraftPlus plugin features automatically resuming failed backups, which can be important for some users.

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by Amit Diwan via SitePoint