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  • Why Narcissism Is Necessary on Twitter

    I’ve been using Twitter actively for over a year now. Initially I started using it because I saw its potential benefits for my business. But after a couple of months, I started to absolutely love it. It became a means of expression for quick thoughts, photos, links, whatever, that wouldn’t normally be a blog post.

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  • Approaching Twitter Like a Blog

    Twitter has been described as a microblogging service for a LONG time, but that aspect really set in with me this week. For a while, I’ve considered it good therapy. I get to express and share what I want, when I want — from photos, links, quotes and thoughts. And I have to admit I

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  • My New Blog Welcome Video

    We built a video studio for iThemes and WebDesign.com, to be able to roll out new classes and try to put a “face” on what we do … and I decided to do a Welcome video for this blog … here goes!

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  • iThemes Builder Theme Demo Video

    Our new blockbuster theme Builder Theme is coming out Dec. 16 and today we did a live demo webinar with over 100 of our customers.

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  • Three Things We’ve Been Up To: Video

    Just released a new video at iThemes about what we’re doing … Here are the links to the three things I talk about in this segment of iThemesTV: Builder Theme iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp Jan. 29-30 WebDesign.com University

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  • I Got a Yo-Yo for Christmas

    Kevin Hendricks of Monkey Outta Nowhere who writes for WebDesign.com sent us a great Christmas present — although I thought it was a bomb! What a great gift idea! And it had a great story about how Kevin got started. Rock on! Here’s a video Matt Danner aka Danger getting some fun out of it

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  • Our First Roadshow: Dallas Here We Come!

    The iThemes team is putting on our first roadshow — a 2-day intense workshop called the iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp in Dallas, Jan. 29-30, 2010. You won’t want to miss it! It’s first-come, first-serve and we only have room for 50 people. Check out the registration details here

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  • On Copycats and Leeches

    This morning, reading my Twitter follow feed and email in bed with my iPhone (typical early morning ritual before I actually get out of bed), I saw something that just pushed me over the edge and thought this (OK, I tweeted something like it too): Business is hard enough without the copycats and leeches, who

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  • Two Videos with My Awesome Team

    We just got a super cool studio setup in our office and have been working on audio and video for our upcoming launch of WebDesign.com University and we recorded two videos today. This one is our Happy Thanksgiving one (bloopers at the end) …. This one is a teaser video about our upcoming blockbuster theme

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  • The Snowball of Innovation

    This week we had an extended conference call with our team to discuss our upcoming projects and ventures and near the end we took some time to look back at how different projects (themes in particular) have influenced later feature innovations in our business. It was fun to review the last year or so and

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