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Have you ever had the need to link to someone’s pro­file on one of the many social web­sites online? How about link to many pro­files for many peo­ple? Doesn’t it get tir­ing writ­ing out all the links over and over again? I know I got tired of it pretty quickly. One day I was read­ing about short­codes within Word­Press installs and it struck me that I could uti­lize short­codes to auto­mate the pro­file link cre­ation process. I started out with just a twit­ter short­code to see how it would go. You can see it down below.

I don’t have much to say for intro­duc­tion other than thank­ing Cheryl for agree­ing to par­tic­i­pate on such a short notice as well as being very timely with her response. She is a com­mu­ni­ca­tions strate­gist in Colum­bus, Ohio with focus in social media tech­nol­ogy. She is also my social media inter­view can­di­date for the series. She serves as the Tac­ti­cal Lead for Social Busi­ness Strate­gies and has been actively using social media for more than 10 years, hav­ing worked pro­fes­sion­ally as a com­mu­nity man­ager and inter­ac­tive strate­gist. Hope you enjoy get­ting to know her.

While the name “Jon Phillips” may not be instantly rec­og­niz­able to you, if you attempt to keep your thumb on a gen­eral pulse of the web design com­mu­nity, chances are you’ve come across him already, or at least his online mag­a­zine Spyre Studios.

I recall the day that the idea of inter­view­ing him came up. Selene M. Bowlby and I were talk­ing and I went to my twit­ter list to see who I could inter­view next. Jon’s pro­file showed up and to me, approach­ing him felt like aim­ing for the stars. I men­tioned the idea to Selene and she was for it 100%, She sug­gested to men­tion her­self in my intro­duc­tion email since her and Jon had con­versed a lot in the past. Thank­fully, Jon agreed to par­tic­i­pate and here we are, about to get to know Jon Phillips.

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If you are read­ing this post, then chances are high that you are well aware of my ongo­ing inter­view series “Do You Think You Know…”. If you have man­aged to beat the odds and do not know what I’m talk­ing about, just read some pre­vi­ous posts, the series will stand out and you can get caught up easily.

With all due respect to both past and future inter­views, I con­sider this one to be my most impor­tant. With this inter­view, I am hold­ing up a mir­ror to your pasts. When you look into this mir­ror, you do not see your­self, you see Alex Cook. “What do you mean” you say? Alex is fresh out of Uni­ver­sity, and at the start of her path to her career.