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We Discuss Micro-learning & How It Can Help Membership/LMS Websites Improvement Their Engagement Isaac is a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart, humanizing the digital training experience to equip and fuel progress for the learner. We live in a world where employees have a free agent mentality with changing motivations. The right culture is the deeper retention solution that lasts. Isaac has a unique understanding of how to craft and drive forward the right organizational culture that engages, retains, and boosts employee performance. Isaac is a co-founder of micro-learning solution ConveYour.com that’s the leading learning engagement platform for companies. https://conveyour.com/

We have a great regular panel and a special guest Rachel Cherry. We discuss latest release of WordPress 4,9,9 and how this might effect the release date of Gutenberg. Then we talk about Rand Fishkins recent presentation at the INBOUND conference 2018. 1 - WordPress 4.9.9 Release Focus Items Include Site Health Project and Gutenberg Preparation https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-9-release-focus-items-include-site-health-project-and-gutenberg-preparation 2 - Rand Fishkin: My Presentation from INBOUND 2018 Might Make You a Better Entrepreneur https://sparktoro.com/blog/my-presentation-from-inbound-2018-might-make-you-a-better-entrepreneur/ 3 - What if Wix really is better than Wordpress? https://twitter.com/CyrusShepard/status/1039268777081200640 https://zyppy.com/ 4 - A Brief Guide About Competitive Analysis https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/08/guide-competitive-analysis/ 5 - How to Use Your Website to Attract Millennials https://webdevstudios.com/2018/09/11/website-to-attract-millennials/ 6 - Jeff Bezos is going to create schools where ‘the child is the customer https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/13/17855358/jeff-bezos-day-one-fund-nonprofit-preschool-amazon

Why Getting Your Legal Ducks In A Roll Is All Important For The Course Owners & Website Owners In General! In this episode WP-Tonic show we’re talking about the legal matters that course entrepreneurs might not be aware of connected to their businesses. We're talking to our guest Sarah Kornblet of Destinationlegal.com Sarah is an online attorney, business owner and passionate traveler and regular contributor on the Social Media Examiner website. https://destinationlegal.com/ https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/author/sarah-kornblet/

1 - AMP for WordPress Plugin to Introduce User-Friendly Theme Support Settings in Upcoming 1.0 Release https://wptavern.com/amp-for-wordpress-plugin-to-introduce-user-friendly-theme-support-settings-in-upcoming-1-0-release 2 - Let's Stop Pretending Facebook and Twitter's CEOs Can't Fix This Mess https://www.wired.com/story/ellen-pao-facebook-twitter-ceos-can-fix-abuse-mark-zuckerberg-jack-dorsey/ 3 - THE REAL REASON WP-SPAMSHIELD WAS KICKED OFF WORDPRESS.ORG? https://www.redsandmarketing.com/blog/real-reason-wp-spamshield-kicked-off-wordpress-org/ 4 - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/30/ten-arguments-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now-jaron-lanier 5 - Find the Right WordPress Membership Plugin for Your Site https://wpappstore.com/blog/right-wordpress-membership-plugin/  

What are the strengths and weaknesses of WordPress compared to the leading SaaS competitors? How do you make logical decision connected to which platform is right for you and what are the key things you need to understand? We also discuss a new bread of WordPress hybrid solution that are taking on the leading SaaS platforms that has takes the best from these online LMS SaaS and combines them with the design and layout flexibility WordPress without the ongoing problems of supporting your own fully self hosted WordPress powered website. https://newkajabi.com https://www.thinkific.com https://teachable.com https://www.thinkific.com/thinkific-vs-teachable/ https://sellcoursesonline.com/teachable-vs-thinkific

In this weeks WP-Tonic’s Round-Table Show with have a great panel and some interesting stories to discuss see below. 1 - WordPress to Support Classic Editor for “Many Years to Come,” Plugin and Theme Markets Expected to Drive Gutenberg Adoption https://wptavern.com/wordpress-to-support-classic-editor-for-many-years-to-come-plugin-and-theme-markets-expected-to-drive-gutenberg-adoption 2 - The Man Who Snuck Into the Ivy League Without Paying a Thing https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/the-man-who-snuck-into-the-ivy-league-without-paying-a-thing/386917/ Waking up Podcast: Sam Harris #136 Digital Humanism Guest Jaron Lanier https://samharris.org/podcasts/136-digital-humanism/ 3 - 10 Reasons to Use WordPress for a University Website https://webdevstudios.com/2018/08/28/wordpress-for-a-university-website/ 4 - Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens 5 - TranslatePress Launch – From concept to product https://translatepress.com/translatepress-launch   6 - Google Analytics is lying to you (massively https://www.tallprojects.co.uk/articles/google-analytics-is-lying-to-you/

In this show we discuss how to develop an audience for your propose course or membership website. Neil Napier Neil Napier is a charismatic leader of people. He focuses on empowering people to spread their wings and develop their individual super-powers. Neil cares about his customers like nobody else and is available for them more than his wife would prefer. He loves to teach and uses this skill to go the extra mile for his customers' success.. https://myfirst1000.com Cindy Nicholson (The co-host of WP-Tonic Wednesday Show) https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/

We have a great show here where we have jont deep dive into Gutenberg project. I get told off for choosing particular bad story by the panel. Also Matt Medeiro from the Matt Report joins us and we discuss some of his recent video about JetPack and Gutenberg. 1 - Mario Peshev Explains the Advantages of Gutenberg for Users who Rely on Page Builders https://wptavern.com/mario-peshev-explains-the-advantages-of-gutenberg-for-users-who-rely-on-page-builders Beaver Builder vs Gutenberg: A Case Study https://webdevstudios.com/2018/08/21/beaver-builder-vs-gutenberg 2 - The Tinder lawsuit is going to get nasty https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/22/17765684/tinder-match-group-lawsuit-sexual-harassment 3 - ClassicPress: Gutenberg Not Included https://wptavern.com/classicpress-gutenberg-not-included 4 - What is this weird Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work? https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work/  

Brea provides entrepreneurs with the confidence and steps needed to successfully launch their product and shift their business so that they can create profitable funnels that naturally create customers and create residual income. Brea began her entrepreneurial journey as a copywriter and virtual assistant, and went on to “accidentally” help a client with their launch. And it worked! Over the next few years, Brea had the good fortune to work on launches that have generated 5-, 6-, and 7-figures. Brea has natural gift for problem solving and funnel creation, and that together, she could help entrepreneurs level up and launch their dream businesses. Breanna Gunn https://www.breannagunn.com/ https://breannagunn.lpages.co/launch-secrets/ Jonathan Denwood https://www.wp-tonic.com/ Cindy Nicholson https://www.thecoursewhisperer.co/

1 - Syed Balkhi Launches A WordPress-focused Growth Accelerator Fund https://wptavern.com/syed-balkhi-launches-a-wordpress-focused-growth-accelerator-fund 2 - WordPress.com Boots Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory Sites, Bans Malicious Publication of Unauthorized Images of Minors. https://wptavern.com/wordpress-com-boots-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theory-sites-bans-malicious-publication-of-unauthorized-images-of-minors   https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/media/sandy-hook-conspiracies-leonard-pozner.html 3 - GoDaddy Data Breach Puts the Internet and Your Site at Risk https://blogaid.net/godaddy-data-breach-puts-the-internet-and-your-site-at-risk/ 4 - WooCommerce vs Easy Digital Downloads: Which One Should You Use https://kinsta.com/blog/woocommerce-vs-easy-digital-downloads/# 5 - Why You Need To Discontinue Using Nulled WordPress Plugins On Your Site https://wedevs.com/135552/nulled-wordpress-plugins/