A product roadmap can help your organization focus on high-value work and avoid a reactive mindset regarding improvements. An Impact-Effort workshop is crucial for ensuring you create an effective roadmap while also providing a way for your teams to come together about shared concerns. Access our step-by-step guide below for running your own successful Impact-Effort…
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How people find information, including your site’s content, is changing—fast. AI search tools like Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity AI’s Deep Research, and Grok DeepSearch are redefining the way we search, summarize, and discover content. Being a “power searcher” used to mean knowing your Boolean operators. Now, it means knowing how to ask an AI to…
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Email newsletters provide a vital way for your organization to sidestep the whims of social media and search platforms and connect directly with your audiences. To ensure you’re giving readers the content they want to see, you need to develop a clear picture of their interests. This tipsheet provides actual questions you can ask your…
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Does this sound familiar? You are in a deadline-focused organization and the work to maintain and improve your website is ruled by the tyranny of the urgent. You’re constantly in reactive mode, responding to bugs, maintenance issues, and urgent feature requests. As a result, seizing opportunities to build greater value into your website go unexplored…
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Attempting to build and maintain your audience as a digital publisher is like trying to walk on unstable ground. You rely on social media and search to drive users to your website, but the status of these platforms is constantly evolving. From ownership changes to black-box algorithms and the changing tastes of users, every platform…
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The challenges faced by news outlets and their teams are well documented: vanishing print subscriptions, limited ad revenue, the domineering whims of search and social media, and doing more reporting with fewer resources. Maybe these are all too real for you and your organization. But one topic rarely explored is the connection between these challenges…
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In any organization, and in the publishing industry in particular, staff changes are not a matter of if but when. Team transitions, whether due to top down restructuring or voluntary attrition, can easily disrupt your digital platform. Our newest eBook offers strategies to ensure smooth operations and continued growth during leadership shifts. In it, we…
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One of WordPress’s greatest strengths is its massive plugin ecosystem. As a team that builds bespoke solutions for clients, we often find ourselves working with plugins that either get us 90% of the way toward a feature request, or end up providing more features than we need, leaving us wanting to disable some. Or, perhaps,…
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Websites need ongoing maintenance to perform optimally. But there comes a point when the constant stream of patches becomes more costly than investing in a complete overhaul. Building a brand new enterprise-level website is a significant investment of both staff time and financial resources. How can you be confident that replatforming is the right move?…
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An underperforming website is a cost no publishing organization can afford. But it can be a challenge to diagnose your website’s problems — and decide what to do about it. By thoroughly understanding your publishing platform’s challenges, you’ll be better equipped to make informed decisions about maintenance, upgrades, or potential redesigns. This guide delves into…
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Many business leaders in the publishing industry find themselves caught in a paradox. They recognize that their technology needs to meet their business goals, yet the lack of digital performance is the very reason they hesitate to invest in a redesign. It feels imprudent to invest when you’re not generating revenue. This hesitation comes at…
