I *love* new ideas. I get excited by my client’s excitement at new ideas. And as my clients become confident with my navigating their business goals through the social media waters, they ask for bigger and brighter things to happen for them. My work frees them up to dream big and ask for it to happen. I …

  The Cheers bar was about socializing. The digital world is, still, about socializing. Many businesses are learning, quickly, that to be successful in the IRL (In Real Life) world, focusing a lot of energy and social competence in the digital world is required. This does not mean strictly selling products or services online, but …

I attended WordCampKC 2011 last weekend, and while I met quite a few in the WordPress, and general web design community, I was there to learn how to produce more effective, business directing websites for my clients. I do read a lot of books, blogs, articles regularly to build my knowledge base, but networking with …

I attended my first WordPress Camp in Kansas City this weekend. This is a gathering of designers, developers and publishers of web content, mostly through WordPress. From beginner to super-coder, a lot of information and networking was to be had. I will be publishing a few different articles this week on my experiences and what …

Do you administer a Facebook page for your business or group? It’s not your personal account where you play games and chat with friends, but the official page that hosts your business information. If so, you are elegible for a Vanity URL when you reach 25 “likes” / “fans” / “followers”. I use those three …

I recently received a beautiful gift from my husband. A SLR Nikon, digital camera. Back in high school, I had a fantastic Pentax K1000 and I was really into photography. I worked on the Yearbook (culminating in Photography Editor my senior year), and had my own lightroom in my basement. I was COOL, man.  Flash …

I’m always thinking. About good things, too. But when a new proposition, project, question, whathaveyou is sprung on me, my mouth goes into gear before my brain cells do. I *think* it’s my bs drive; I used to talk my way into/outof things often. But those things were Other Peoples Things (final exam, GIS plotting, …

We all have big plans: facebook, twitter, vacation with the in-laws, changing out the air filter. We’ll get to it later, because, right now, you’re busy. And I don’t mean to bring up the 70s, but whenever I get to thinking about what I should be doing, for my family, for my business, for myself, …

So, you’ve got yourself a Twitter account and now you want to look like a pro. First off, I’m sure you’ve figured out, is you’ve gotta keep your message, or “tweet” down to 140 parts- this includes digits, symbols and spaces.  This can be fun, because it will really challenge you to get to the …

Have you ‘googled’ yourself lately?  You should- and your business, too. I’ll wait here while you go check it out…. Back? Great. If you’re not all that comfortable with what you see, there are ways to manage that online information. Brent Payne at 435 Digital wrote a terrific piece about ways to remove or change …