Keeping up with the algorithms 

Early this year, Meta began removing a variety of detailed targeting options from its advertising platform, which has, in turn, forced advertisers to think on their feet when it comes to reaching users on the company’s social networks. However, this isn’t new. In 2021, the… Read More
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Your mind matters more than any ad ever will

Six years ago this month, my trusted SSRI (think Lexapro or Zoloft) stopped working. During a quick search, I learned that doctors don’t fully understand what causes this thing — a condition called tachyphylaxis — nor do they understand why it occurs in some people and not others. Read More
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Usability is not a feature

Have you ever attended a sporting event and watched the video board cut between a singer, an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, and the crowd during the national anthem? Picture it for a minute. Now, mute the volume. What’s going on with the national anthem? Where is the interpreter… Read More
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Mobile-friendly Website Design and Why It Matters

Many moons ago, website design was a fairly straightforward venture: designing a website for consumer consumption meant creating a website that looked good and worked well on a desktop computer or laptop. That all changed in 2007 when the first iPhone was released. Now, users could surf the web,… Read More
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Common User Experience Mistakes to Avoid

The term ‘user experience’ is a relatively new term; it’s safe to say that a large portion of people don’t know what it means. But really, user experience also referred to as ‘UX,’ is somewhat easy to understand. For example, have you ever used a website that was frustrating… Read More
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Influencing the Future of Healthcare

The world of social media influencers is something we’ve all come to know and hardly needs to be defined anymore. Looking for a new mattress? Oh, I heard “so-and-so” talking about that on their Instagram Story! Trying to find the perfect meal delivery service? Surely, you’ve seen “so-and-so’s” most… Read More
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Is the secret to happiness low expectations?  

In 1988, I was a senior in high school, and my hometown football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, were amid a rough twenty-year run. On a freezing, rainy day, I sat in Arrowhead Stadium with two of my friends and roughly 15,000 other people. It was so empty you… Read More
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Getting Started with SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may feel like a daunting, nebulous thing to start to tackle for your organization. Algorithms. Keywords. Core Web Vitals. Canonicalization. Where to start? Search Engine Optimization isn’t JUST about being on the first page of Google. In short, you want to be discovered. You… Read More
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