Year: 2020

  • December 31, 2020

    Launch Specific Parts of a Mac App with Stream Deck and Keyboard Maestro

    Earlier this week in my Favorites of 2020 post, I bestowed the dubious honor of favorite gadget upon the Elgato Stream Deck. I love automation, and the flexibility of this bad boy to control not only aspects of my computer, but aspects of my home, is fantastic.

    Well I recently picked up the Stream Deck XL and have a few extra buttons to play with now. One thing I thought would be interesting is to launch a specific note in Bear Notes. Turns out you can totally do that! Here’s how.

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  • December 28, 2020

    Favorites of 2020

    This is my 7th Annual Favorites Post. At some point I guess I should starting the posts like that! If you’re new here, I like to recap my favorite tech and media picks for the past year. I try to have them come out close to the year they’re picked, but that’s not always the case. It might just be the year I consumed them, or the year they got popular, as you’ll see with my gadget pick! Let’s get to it.

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  • December 16, 2020

    State of the Word 2020 Reaction & Analysis



    Matt Mullenweg is giving his annual State of the Word, an update on all things WordPress, on December 17th at 11:00am EST. Following that, I’ll be giving my reaction and thoughts. Join me for a chat and to throw your two cents in! 

    Watch the SotW here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI3qCoiuG3w&feature=youtu.be

    Check out WordPress: Year in Review: https://wpyearinreview.com

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  • December 16, 2020

    Create a Webinar Sign Up Form with Gravity Forms and ConvertKit!



    Want to create a simple, updatable form for your webinars or virtual events? With Gravity Forms, and dynamic hidden fields, you can! Plus, you can create reminder and special offer emails by sending that information right to ConvertKit. Here’s everything you need to do, step by step!

    * See a demo here: https://casabona.org/sign-up/
    * GravityForms: https://casabona.org/go/gravity-forms
    * ConvertKit: https://casabona.org/go/convertkit

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  • December 15, 2020

    Favorites of 2020

    It’s that time of year again! I round up my favorite media and tech picks of 2020 – but this year I’m doing it a little differently. Over on Casabona.org, I’ve written blog posts for the past several years, but I’ve never recorded my thoughts. So this year, along with a blog post, I decided to do a podcast episode too – this lets me ramble a little more and add some thoughts on 2021. I hope you enjoy!

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  • December 14, 2020

    The Year End Spend and Planning

    It’s been a banner year for me and content. I managed to blog and make a video pretty much weekly, I’ve put out more podcast episodes, and I live stream weekly too. Plus, I put out several LinkedIn Learning courses, launched Podcast Liftoff, and published a book. Keeping up with that amount of content has been an interesting challenge, but luckily it’s December. This time of year, I generally think and talk about the same topics: end of the year planning, spending, and reflection.

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  • December 10, 2020

    Live Stream: Twenty Twenty One and WordPress Memberships



    WordPress 5.6 is out and with it a new default theme: Twenty Twenty One. We’ll take a walk through that and I see how closely I can convert my home page to the new theme, as well as explore some other customization.

    Then, we’ll test out Uncanny Automator with Restrict Content Pro!

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  • December 9, 2020

    What’s New with WordPress 5.6?



    WordPress 5.6 “Simone” is out now! It’s the last major update of 2020 and it’s packed with lots of changes. We’ll get an overview of what’s changed, as well as demos of auto-updates, Block Patterns, Column improvements, a walk through the new default theme Twenty Twenty One, and more.

    Chapters:
    00:00 – Intro
    05:36 – Upgrading / jQuery
    07:15 – Auto-Updates Explained
    10:35 – Block Editor Changes
    14:35 – Columns
    17:26 – Block Patterns
    18:55 – Twenty Twenty One
    21:20 – Outro

    Links:

    * WordPress 5.6 “Simone”: https://wordpress.org/news/2020/12/simone/
    * WordPress 5.6 Field Guide: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/20/wordpress-5-6-field-guide/
    * 5.6 Core Editor Overview: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/12/03/wordpress-5-6-core-editor-overview/
    * iThemes’ WordPress 5.6 guide: https://ithemes.com/wordpress-5-6-guide/
    * WordPress: Year in Review: https://wpyearinreview.com

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  • December 8, 2020

    Season 9 Recap

    Well 2020 was unlike any year I’ve lived through, and I’m sure it’s the same for you. When I decided to come up with a theme for Season 9, which started in July, we were a couple of months into the global pandemic. I wanted focus on topics that could help you (and me) grow at a time where we were traveling less, seeing less foot traffic, and had to change in some way to make ends meet. I settled on coming up with good content, and using that content to evolve memberships, and build communities. If you didn’t catch every episode, here are the highlights.

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