February may be the shortest month but it was not short on great content over on our Academy. Get caught up on all the essential reads from the past few weeks …
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13 Tips for Speeding Up Your Website
The speed of your website—how fast it loads into a user’s browser—is super important for two reasons, each of which can be expressed with a well-known acronym: UX and SEO. We recommend these 13 tips to ensure your webpages load as quickly as possible.
Customizable and mobile-friendly, the List Building Tool is one of the easiest, most effective ways for marketers to increase conversion and engagement rates with their target audiences. By leveraging list building that feeds directly into your funnel, the List Building Tool is highly effective at seamlessly capturing your audience.
While living in South Korea in early 2011, I quickly learned about a convenient, fun app called “KakaoTalk.” Have you heard of it yet? If not, you’re missing out—and here’s why.
Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality
Apple CEO Tim Cook proclaimed his love for augmented reality over virtual reality earlier this week, saying it “allows users to be present.” Which led this author to wonder, “what the heck is augmented reality, and how is it different from virtual reality?”
By now you may have heard of the security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 popularly known as Heartbleed. This was a bug in the popular OpenSSL encryption library used by a majority of web sites, including AddThis. Continue reading
As the world of online marketing and advertising sinks the traditional form of television, print, and radio advertising, there’s also been a shift on the web that goes more in line with its “old school” counterparts. And that is content engagement advertising.
Tags just got easier. Without having to involve a developer, marketers can manage their AddThis tags in Tealium, a tag management solution.
With new product releases and upgrades this year, we received a variety of questions for support. We thought it’d be useful for you, our user, to get a quick roundup of the most popularly asked questions this year, so you have it handy in case you need it!
(Blog title: Shakespeare reference, Olsen Twins movie, or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban score track #5? You decide.)
AddThis has offices in Washington, DC and New York City, both of which were hit by now infamous Hurricane Sandy this week. While NYC is still in the dark (and we’re thinking about them every day!) that didn’t stop some A-Teamers here at AddThis HQ from getting in the Halloween spirit yesterday, as well as some members in our LA office and other remote locales.
Our 2nd Annual Halloween costume contest saw a variety of crazy characters. Three of the “best dressed” won prizes in the following categories:
AND THE WINNERS ARE …
Jeannie in LA won Funniest with her hilarious Stewie outfit:
Will in LA won Scariest with his impersonation of Tony Montana from Scarface:
And Leiser from AT:HQ won Most Creative with her interpretation of a “data dump”:
Congratulations to you all!
And in the name of honorable mentions, here are some more photos of the wacky Wednesday wear:
Tiffany as Janet Jackson in the Control era, Kori as Penny Lane from Almost Famous, Collin as an AddThis “adult publisher” and there’s that data dump lady again!
Stephen as Magnum PI!
Paul as Superman and his superdog!
Joe, from our NYC office, is Frankenstorm/NYC reporter. Sandy can’t mess with our sense of humor!
Tracy was a cowgirl and her horse.
Natalija as a “Roman” Goddess … every other day she’s just a regular goddess. :)
Does this look like fun?! If so, check out our open positions! If it’s not your cup of tea, don’t worry, it’s not mandatory to dress up on Halloween. :)