#EAv missions become available for everyone and get new features!

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Empire Avenue is taking shareholder missions out of beta and opening them up to everyone. At the same time they are get an overhaul and new features. I was given the opportunity to speak with the developers about the changes. Here are the biggest things I drew from the … [Continue reading...]

3 things not to do to your WordPress site

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Don’t use Google to find free themes and plugins. One great thing about WordPress is the availability of free tools to go with it. At the time of this posting there are 1,457 themes and 17,297 plugins in the WordPress repository. However, anyone can build a theme or plugin and there are plenty out there [...]

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Social Media Haiku Winner!

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Voting for the social media haiku contest is over. Dillon Rhodes haiku Social Posting  is the run away winner. Dillon was crafty and created a shareholder mission on Empire Avenue. A shareholder mission is an in game email that rewards players with eaves for doing certain tasks. Some shareholders were irritated because they haven’t been in #EAv [...]

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Social Media Haiku Contest Entries

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I challenged my Empire Avenue shareholders to a social media haiku contest. The entries are in and it is time to vote! I didn’t realize how many people are apprehensive about writing poetry but a few brave souls stepped up and shared their prose. The voting is open until Monday, November 7th. It is extremely [...]

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What is social media spam?

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Spam is a word that gets thrown around a lot. It used to be pretty easy to determine what constituted spam. If it’s an email you didn’t want trying to sell you something, then it’s email spam. With social media spam has taken a new identity, but what is it? The thing with social media [...]

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