We’ve been working hard on a new redesign and I wanted to give you a quick look at what all we’ve been improving. A majority of the changes are design-based, but we have also added some pretty sweet features that should make your HubPages experience even better (and you didn’t even know that was possible,…
Read MoreAre You A Fan Of HubPages? Well, Prove It!
I’ve been spending some time over on Facebook here lately with a mission of figuring out a good way to utilize the power and reach of Facebook’s Fan Pages to help spread the word about the awesome things that we’re doing over here on HubPages. From a word-of-mouth perspective, Facebook certainly has the ability to…
Read MoreThis Is Why We Have Weekly HubNuggets
Several months ago I started to put together a Hub each week that allowed the HubPages community to have a say in deciding which 5 HubNuggets got sent out in our weekly newsletter. Up until this change the HubNuggets were selected by the HubPages team and no one else really had any say in what…
Read MoreOooh, That’s Clever! A Great Presentation That I Missed At SXSW
I just finished up watching a really great SlideShare presentation called Oooh, that’s clever! (unnatural experiments in web design). It was put together by Paul Annett and was presented at SXSW Interactive down in Austin, TX (which I went to). Unfortunately I missed this particular presentation, but thanks to the internets I was able to…
Read MoreA CalTrain Introduction To Ann Crady From BabyCenter.com
Today on CalTrain I met another interesting person who I had a great conversation with on the ride up to San Francisco. Her name is Ann Crady and she is the Senior Vice President of Consumer Experience over at Johnson & Johnson’s super popular website BabyCenter.com. It’s a place where any mother (or expecting mother)…
Read MoreHow Gary Vaynerchuk Sets His Audience’s Expectations
As I mentioned in this post, I headed down to the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX, which is one of the best places to meet some really amazing and innovative people when it comes to tech and the social web. Well, one of those people that I was lucky enough to meet was Gary…
Read MoreA Big YEEE HAW! From SXSW Interactive In Austin, TX
This entire past week I was lucky enough to go experience one of the best technology events that the world has to offer — the South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, TX. For 6 days some of of the most well-known names in the technology, mobile and web space all descended upon Texas…
Read MoreThe Benefits Of Working Above A Bar
As I rode into work this morning I noticed a huge semi-truck parked in the alley next to our office and as I wheeled in closer to it (I ride a bike into work), I noticed that it was a big, blue truck filled with the always delicious and San Francisco-brewed Anchor Steam Beer. With…
Read MoreHubPages Earning Methods And Revenue Splits, Explained
For some reason that I’m not really aware of, I’ve been getting a lot more emails from new Hubbers than I have in the past. Although it tends to take up some of my time during the day to answer each one of them, I actually really enjoy helping out newbies when they take the…
Read MoreHubPages: Giving Love To Long Content For 2 Years And Counting…
You know, everywhere I look these days the buzz all abut making content shorter and shrter and shrtr. I’m not sure why this trend was started and where this trend of hatred for longer, full-bodied and information-rich content came from, but I can tell you one thing — me and the rest of the HubPages…
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