What A Treat To Be Featured At WPCandy

It’s always nice to get recognized for being interesting and unique and to that end, it’s an enormous honor to get singled out for those very reasons by WPCandy; one of the go-to WordPress communities, in their Behind the Site series. Granted, unless you regularly dip your toes into the world of binary code in all of its open source goodness, you’re probably wondering what the heck all of this means.

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It's Surprising To See The Thieves Go To That Much Trouble

The 8/25/2011 FTM Arts Law blog post (HT Musical America) reports on a recent notice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alerting the public about a recent identity theft scam directed toward performing arts groups where the crooks attempted to gather information through bogus forms. All of the advice in the blog post is spot on so take it to heart but what I’m curious about is why the crooks went to that much trouble to begin with.

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The Arts Administrator's Guide To Becoming A QR Code Superhero

Oh the places you’ll go thanks to the help of QR codes, those little black and white boxes that can be scanned by smartphones. Thanks to a recent news item from the National Arts Marketing Project, it seemed like it was time to review everything you wanted to know about QR Codes but were afraid to ask. So if you’re not already familiar with QR Codes, here’s the low down on what they do and some ideas about how arts groups can use them.

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Why This Business Needs Technology Standards

Community event calendars. Anyone who has had to tackle the task of designing and populating a community calendar knows how much of a pain in the tuches this seemingly straightforward task really is. Those pains are due, in large part, to the complete lack of standards related to how organizations create their respective calendar events, and that needs to change.

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