Posts by jean

Share your knowledge with the public! We are entering what Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, refers to as a “gift economy”. According to Wikipedia, the gift economy is “a mode of exchange where valuables are given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.” From Wikipedia and free blog information...

We receive a free eBook from a marketing company called Hubspot almost daily. These folks are truly on top of things in the online marketing arena. They publish good material and they keep it coming. The saying goes, “Content is King,” and that has never been more true. To keep up with the pack, a company must continually create new and useful material. If regular content publishing seems unattainable for you, read some of...

If your schooling was completed before the mid-1980s, and you were not one of the rocket-science bound, humanoid-super-nerd types, computers were something that occurred only in science fiction movies, along with spaceships and aliens. There now exists a clear line of demarcation: A) a large group of folks that had smallpox vaccinations and didn’t go to school with computers; and B) those that sport no little round scar and did....

You’re launching a new business and it’s time to begin developing a website. Or maybe you’re a seasoned establishment that has decided to jump on the bandwagon by adding a web presence to your marketing efforts. Whatever the case, if you are new to this aspect of business, there are a few things you can do to help your developer make this a successful endeavor for you. To begin with, your nephew may be a whiz kid,...

It was time. It was past time. You’ve heard the old adage about the plumber’s wife and her leaky faucet — well, the web designer’s band had a tired website. To be fair, it wasn’t awful. It had a cool jQuery navigation that was fun to fiddle with. Did it help the band in any way? Well, not that I could tell. We also had a few video embeds that were fine, and you could hear some samples of our music with a...