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Make Your WordPress Install More Secure

On October 30, 2014 I appeared with an awesome cast of colleagues on GoDaddy’s “The Campfire” Hangout (webcast). My friend Mendel (GoDaddy Evangelist) asked me to come on to talk about “Protect Your Site: Security Tips For WordPress”. I presented some material which you can watch in the video version (above, YouTube or here). Below is the abbreviated […]

DropBox & Snapchat Security Hacks 10/14/14

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Holiday Marketing Tips 10/9/14

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Leveraging Google to power your ideas in Iowa

Are you a… Entrepreneur interested in using Google tech to enable your offering? Developer wanting to explore what Google’s ecosystem? Businessperson wanting to leverage Google’s array of products/services? You said yes to any of all of these? Read on… Cedar Rapids Google Developer Group Launch On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 6PM, I’m proud to be hosting Eastern […]

Apple iPhone 6 & AppleWatch Announcements 9/10/14

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Apple Special Event Pre-Event Predictions 9/9/14

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EntreFEST arrives on Wednesday: 5 things to know before it begins

[mk_blockquote font_family="none"] 5. There’s a huge “Coalition of the Awesome” behind all of this. Joshua McNary: Marketing Technologist Joshua has put together a sweet set of stickers for attendees to customize their name badge and make it easier to strike up a conversation with those you haven’t yet. Look for these stickers at Attendee Check-In [...]

Baseball marketing platform hits home run at CR Startup Weekend 3/4/14

[mk_blockquote font_family="none"]What originally began as an idea for photographers and teams to share digital, up-to-date baseball cards with fans, morphed into Major Trading Cards, a mobile marketing platform for minor league and college baseball fans. Major Trading Cards would allow teams to reach their fans both inside and outside of the stadium through customizable features like [...]

Major Trading Cards moves forward after Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids 4/1/14

[mk_blockquote font_family="none"]Zach Sanderson planned to test the waters of entrepreneurship during Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids. Instead, he fell in the deep end. “I pitched it with the idea that I was going to practice,” he said. “I certainly didn’t expect to come out of it with a company." Sanderson, a systems administrator at the University of [...]

Kids and code: it is not dorky anymore, it is necessary” – 4/7/14 (WeCreateHere.net)

[mk_blockquote font_family="none"] We Create Here was an initiative within the Gazette Company to develop evolving narratives and authentic conversations throughout Iowa's Creative Corridor. read more While we were preoccupied with Mission Creek's inaugural technology conference on Saturday, another awesome event was happening on the other end of our Corridor: the first meeting of CoderDojo Cedar [...]