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WDG Presents: The Feedback is a digital industry podcast featuring expert voices from WDG, a DC-area digital strategy, design, and development agency. The podcast will feature topics ranging from sneak peeks into agency life to the latest trends in supporting your digital presence in the modern world. The Feedback is here to provide enterprise-level commentary with wit, insight, and storytelling. Because we aren't an hour-long, unedited podcast; we are a group of industry thought leaders fro ...
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The Spy Who Hacked Me(tLife): An Interview with Jack Barsky
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In the past month, we’ve talked about data security and privacy. What we haven’t talked about is the other side of cybersecurity—the reason for its existence. Cyber warfare. Today, we are going to discuss the very things that are keeping cybersecurity wonks up at night. Jack Barsky is cybersecurity expert and was a KGB sleeper agent for ten years i…
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StrategyBytes: What Every Industry Needs to Know About Data Privacy
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This week's episode brings up GDPR, future concerns about data privacy, and why you should NOT use SurveyMonkey to gather sensitive information. Seriously, people. Your hosts are Lisette Alvarez and Andrew Amundson. TranscriptBy Lisette Alvarez
Everything you have is on the Cloud, which means it is safe -- right? Lisette and Andrew break down the best practices of digital maintenance so that your devices and data remain secure.By Lisette Alvarez
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Communication Breakdown: An Interview with Crisis Communications Expert Jennifer R. Farmer
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Jennifer R. Farmer is a public relations expert who specializes in crisis communications and leadership development. She helps grassroots leaders, celebrities and executives navigate crises, develop winning public personas/brands, and tell their stories more effectively. She has been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the …
No one wants to lose their job or ruin their brand over social media. Here are a few ways you can avoid massive PR problems. We cover some of the basics of grappling with the minefield of social media. Your cohosts are Andrew Amundson and Lisette Alvarez. TranscriptBy Lisette Alvarez
We all make mistakes, some worse than others. The world of digital can be merciless in a lot of ways, so here's how you can learn from your mistakes and prevent them in the first place. Hosted by Andrew Amundson and Lisette Alvarez. TranscriptBy Lisette Alvarez
Written by Andrew Amundson. Edited by Lisette Alvarez The Narrator was played by Lisette Alvarez. All other actors played themselves. No, really. If you want to see our work with the Folger, check out our case study. TranscriptBy Lisette Alvarez
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How to Think Content First: An Interview with Content Strategist Carrie Hane
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Carrie Hane is the founder of Tanzen Consulting. Tanzen offers content strategy consulting and training to help people and organizations create more effective content more consistently. The company was built on principles related to making content more effective and easier to manage. Carrie Hane wrote Designing Connected Content (New Riders, 2018) …
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StrategyBytes: Content Planning and Building Your Roadmap
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Writing is hard and so is planning content. In this StrategyBytes episode we've outlined recommended priorities and steps to planning, designing, and developing content. Let us know if you need help with your content planning at wdg.co! TranscriptBy WDG
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StrategyBytes: Choosing Types of Content & Tools of Storytelling
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StrategyBytes is hosted by Andrew Admunson and Lisette Alvarez, with Ab-stractions from Ab Emam. TranscriptBy WDG
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StrategyBytes: Grammar, SEO and Cliches - The Right Way to Write for the Web
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Our June series of StrategyBytes focuses on content - writing it, planning it, and optimizing it. Transcript Check out some of our deeper thoughts on writing for web, including accessibility, SEO, and content strategy: What is Content Strategy? Content Creation for Accessibility and SEO 5 Ways to Create Click Worthy Copy…
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Nonprofits, Website Redesign, and Diversity with Monica S. Flores
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You can find Monica at @monicasflores on Twitter, and monicasflores.com. Listen to our other nonprofit StrategyBytes episodes on the FEEDBACK feed, and check out wdg.co/nonprofits for more information. TranscriptBy WDG
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StrategyBytes: 'Tis Better to Give - Donation Tips for Nonprofits
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Andrew and Lisette talk about the elephant in the nonprofit room: money. Specifically donations and how to improve your strategy around soliciting donations. Don't forget to check out our Feedback interview episode on Friday, which features Monica Flores from Green America. TranscriptBy WDG
We have a new FEEDBACK segment, StrategyBytes -- short, scripted tip episodes less than 10 minutes of your day. Just eat it up with your morning coffee. The inaugural episode deals with a few areas that can help improve a nonprofit's ability to distinguish itself online. StrategyBytes is hosted by Lisette Alvarez and Andrew Admunson. Want to learn …
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Web Accessibility and Opening the Digital Door
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Expert developer Amanda Blake discusses the definitions and tools associated with web accessibility and common ways to improve your website's accessibility. Episode Transcript **Learn more about WDG and follow us on social media! ** Website: wdg.co LinkedIn: WDG Twitter: @wdgtweet Instagram: wdgdcBy WDG
Faster than AMP. Better than Gutenberg. WDG has the exclusive on the newest CMS plugin. **Learn more about WDG and follow us on social media! ** Website: wdg.co LinkedIn: WDG Twitter: @wdgtweet Instagram: wdgdcBy WDG
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Analytics
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Data can be deliriously daunting and sometimes you may question the true value of your Google Analytics account. Fear not! We've brought in David Fields, an analytics expert from the Peace Corps, to discuss the importance of analytics in making smart decisions for your organization. Featuring music from Blue Dot Sessions, Fjodor Lavro, and Dlay. Le…
Launching a new website is all fun and games until the creeping questions and doubt begin to set in. How are you going to leverage this new digital tool? No worries! Avik will walk you through the types of solutions that can help smooth out the growing pains of your redesigned website. Having an expert developer on hand is an under-appreciated conv…
When you've got a project to finish on time and in scope, who you gonna call? Project managers, of course. Check out this interview with Arista, one of our project managers at WDG, and her perspective on how she brings a project all the way from the ideals to the real solutions users can interact with every day. Learn more about WDG and follow us o…
The inaugural first full episode of The Feedback covers the first consideration of a digital agency's relationship with a client; the sales process. Ab, Vajaah, and Dario walk you through some of our favorite client stories and how sales, strategy, and design work together to move from "love at first sight" to "going steady" in our client relations…
An introduction into the story of the inception of a new digital agency podcast. Listen in how one coworker's fiction podcast became the inspiration for a narrative-driven podcast about agency life in digital design, strategy, and development. Music sourced from the Free Music Archive: Ketsa, Scott Holmes, Joao Pocoito Learn more about WDG and foll…
We're knee deep in panto, and things are getting serious. With less than 6 weeks to go, we're talking panto and our 2018 lineup.Hosts Paul Arends and David Jeffery are older and wiser, and joined by a plethora of folk - Richard Walker, Johnny Andrew, Lauren MacLaren, Kimberley Simms, Teri Duffy, and Ali Wilson.As per, you can find us on Facebook, T…
HELLLO FROM THE OTHER SIDE... of Hamlet. WDG's Amateur Hour is back - we've done Hamlet, we're doing a panto, it's all go in WDG towers.Irregular hosts Paul Arends and David Jeffery are older and wiser, and joined by a plethora of folk - Johnny Andrew, Rose Jobbins, James 'Stevo' 'Hamlet' 'Garston' Stevenson, Ali Wilson, Sarah Garvey, Seonnie Serge…
HELLO WORLD! WDG's Amateur Hour is back - new season (kinda), new us (not at all).Regular hosts Paul Arends and David Jeffery are joined by Isabel Cowan and a plethora of WDG vagabonds, who will share their highs and lows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Excellent!As per, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes - just search for 'WDG Amat…
