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Our thoughts

Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.

The art of making a plan

Planning a big project is like planning a trip. The bigger it is, the harder the plans become.  Recently (okay this week), I spent some time packing for my trip to Ethiopia. We have been slowly planning for many months, and it all seemed to be rolling smooth. That was until it came time to…

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Design matters. Your visitors say so

Would you let your customers see a showroom / lobby / office in a complete mess? Piles of paper on the floor and desk? Broken lights, missing ceiling tiles, stained floors? No! You dress your best, your employees dress their best, and you keep your showroom / lobby / office in tip top shape. Or…

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out of my way

My youngest boy evidently has a favorite ‘adult’ restaurant that he asked to go to several times while we were on vacation. So we headed out to it one afternoon for their specialty shakes and reasonably good americana fair. The service in this establishment was mediocre at best during a ‘less than busy’ period of the…

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How would you fix it: Sprint/nextel

So a few weeks ago i posted some questions regarding the newspaper industry, and how to fix it. I think I have some solid ideas, that I will post later. But that post got me thinking. A new series of blog posts, on what would you do to fix a company or industry. Could be…

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the real world review

iPhone rocked the phone industry with a revolutionary PDA / phone / smart phone. Ever since every phone manufacturer has been trying to be the next iPhone.  I was really glad to see this today, Palm is asking for volunteers to review their phone. Palm, who has an upcoming device titled the “Pre”. Its touch…

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iPhone baby shaker app

In case you havent heard, some yahoo made an application for the iPhone, called “the baby shaker app” that uses the motion sensing hardware for the user to shake the phone, to get the baby to stop crying. Disturbing yes. It seems the Media is blasting Apple for allowing the application / game to be…

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another earth day post – newspapers

Since the dawn of the internet era (the mid 90’s), experts have speculated that the world of paper would go away. Everything would be digital. No newspapers, magazines, brochures, even business cards.  While a lot has shifted to the web, I still dont think the world of paper will go away 100%.  Both the New…

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how are we/you doing?

People reference your work whether you think so or not. Sometimes it is positive. Other times it is negative. And, even if it is mediocre or indifferent, that is still a type of reference. Do you care what people are saying OR not saying? You should! Given the 3 options, only 1 of them will generate future…

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User control

Most of the sites we create for our customers are based on a content management system (CMS). This allows them to log in, add, edit and remove pages. This is a great tool for our clients to keep their sites up to date, without having to pay for, or wait on a web designer to…

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break the mold

as mentioned in past posts, we like to do things differently around here any time we can. And I LOVE to see other companies doing the same.   Who said water needs to be in a gross plastic bottle that pollutes the earth, both in creation and decomposition. boxedwaterisbetter.com About 90% of the Boxed Water container is…

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