Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to the “weekly round-up” post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, and other content creators. Every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly “listicle” blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our blog subscribers.

Here are this week’s (Aug 12-18 2017) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. How To Finish What You Start
“Everybody starts projects. Successful people finish them. The ability to finish is the most important skill any creator, entrepreneur, or artist can develop and it’s often what separates those who succeed from those who don’t….”

2. Pro Tip: Your blog community can help fuel true content automation
“As a blogger, it’s fair to assume that your most important task is writing quality content for the enjoyment of your audience. When writing quality posts we generally follow a set of fairly straightforward guidelines – you know, the usual stuff; organizing, researching…”

3. Ransomware Targeting WordPress – An Emerging Threat
“Recently, the Wordfence team has seen ransomware being used in attacks targeting WordPress. We are currently tracking a ransomware variant we are calling “EV ransomware.” The following post describes what this ransomware does and how to protect…”

4. 4 Amazing Ways to Respond to Criticism Online
“If you spend any amount of time online, you will run into criticism. Criticism comes in many forms: bullies, rightfully annoyed customers, bored teenagers, and plain old trolls who are just hoping to get a rise out of an entrepreneur or business owner…”

5. News: Medium blogging platform replaces heart icon with clap icon
“Medium, a platform for bloggers and writers, has recently started rolling out a clapping icon, to replace the heart icon they’ve been using for several years. All previous posts that we’re previously “loved” with hearts, have been converted to claps…”

That’s all folks! Tune in next Friday for another great weekend reading list that you won’t want to miss! Be sure to subscribe our newsletter if you’d like them emailed to you on a weekly basis, and join the /t/BES community if you would like to participate with other fellow content creators! If you have anything awesome to submit that others might enjoy, feel free to do so!

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