Deborah Edwards-Oñoro 
In my continuing series of posts about unsubscribing from mailing lists, I highlight best practices by organizations.
I’ve always thought unsubscribing from mailing lists should be quick and easy to do.
Which is why I’m giving a UX win to Consumer Reports and how they’ve designed a process with the user in mind, making the unsubscription process easy to understand and complete.
Continue reading UX Win: Consumer Reports Unsubscribe from Mailing List
When I changed the analytics plugin recently for my clients’ sites, with that change came a loss of a daily email message.
An automatic message to my clients with highlights of the previous day’s analytics.
The message was helpful to clients who wanted info about their site, but didn’t want to delve deep into site analytics.
I wanted to continue to provide access to analytics info to clients, but the more privacy-friendly plugin (Koko Analytics) didn’t offer any kind of email messaging.
But did offer a dashboard widget to quickly show site visits for the past month.
Which would work well for my client.
Except the dashboard widget was only viewable by users with Administrator capabilities for the website.
Continue reading Manage User Roles and Permissions with User Role Editor Plugin
After a long day of rain, imagine you’re out with your fiance at a nearby marsh when you spot an unusual colored bird.
A large pink wading bird.
A Roseate Spoonbill.
In Michigan.
That’s not usual.
In the United States, the Roseate Spoonbill is usually found in the southeast. Almost a thousand miles away.
But that’s what a local couple found in Saline, Michigan this weekend. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Roseate Spoonbill, Rare Bird and First State Record for Michigan