Longreads of 3000+ words get 3x more traffic, 4x more shares, and 3.5x more backlinks than articles of average length (901-1200 words).

EOS Worldwide recently published a blog titled, “Bad Meetings? Try Running on Lombardi Time.” The article argues that when people complain about too many meetings, they actually mean too many bad meetings. One solution- start meetings on time.

Project management tool, Basecamp now has a free version.

According to the Search Engine Journal, it appears that Google is gaining the ability to pinpoint verbalized keywords within podcasts and videos to be ranked. It’s interesting to note podcast episodes can be listened to directly from the search engine results page and will likely be able to feature the part of the episode relative to the search query.

Rev leverages holiday trends to write an excellent article.

Aviation Gin turns a debateable bad situation into a serious win.

MicroConf is the world’s most popular conference for independent start-ups and here are their 5 most popular talks.

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