
2013 Resolutions to Make Your Web Site Better
There’s no shame in admitting we all procrastinate about making changes. The tougher the changes, the more we dread making them. Thank goodness New Year’s Day comes around and give…
2013 Resolutions to Make Your Web Site Better
There’s no shame in admitting we all procrastinate about making changes. The tougher the changes, the more we dread making them. Thank goodness New Year’s Day comes around and give…
iTech Review 2013: 3D Printing, Mobile Wars, Flexing Phones, etc.
A new year and new technology is eagerly busting into our lives… not that it doesn’t happen pretty much every Monday throughout the year but that title would be too…
What Can Mobile Apps Do for Your Business?
If you haven’t used an app for one business or another… then you are dead and may you rest in peace. Now, don’t get mad and scream, “I’m not dead!…
With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year…
Do You Have the Skills to Deal on a Global Scale?
In the dark days of technology, when faxes were the fastest way to communicate with clients, I was contacted by a Japanese company to do some design and illustrations for…
Real-Time Marketing: What is It and How Do YOU Do It Effectively?
Marketing use to be a leisurely pastime of sorts. Weeks of meetings, focus groups, reading and analyzing statistics, three-martini lunches and over several months, the plan was laid for product…
Twidiots, Pinheads and Facebook Fools: Protecting Your Brand on Social Media
The title of this article says it all—”social” and “media.” Are you prepared to use both to your best advantage? Do you know how to control both? What do you…
Politics of Memes: Memevertising Part I
Eastwooding empty chairs, Women in binders, now Horses and bayonets, “ermahgerd!” where is the chubby bubble girl and why do bronies even exist? Didn’t South Park already make the point? Tebowing…
It’s no surprise that as part of our human condition, we either do not see or rationalize our own bad behavior towards others. We will not take the extra twenty…
Geek Ethicist: Stealing Ethically
“Dear Ethicist– I am an artist and a graphic designer. Lately I’ve been thinking about “derivative works,” mostly due to the press surrounding Shepard Fairey’s Obama photo and the recent…
According to a recent New York Times piece by Matt Richtel marriages in much of the world rarely last much longer than a decade or so. He suggests that marriage itself…
Mobile Sites and SMS Marketing: Are You Ready?
Ninety-eight percent of cell phone owners have their devices within reach one hundred percent of the time. The other two percent are my kids who always misplace them. Smartphones contain…