“No” Meetings
Beth Honshell
Jul24th
Topics: Company Culture
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I have a good friend who recently prepared for a scheduled goal meeting. He struggled with creating his goals because he’s been given no direction about the company’s vision or strategy the goals would help accomplish. Apparently the goals didn’t really line up with the undisclosed vision and strategy, and he left the meeting discouraged and frustrated. He and his friends have started referring to these yearly events as “no” meetings.

Are you the kind of person who calls “no” meetings?

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Two Quick Ways to Improve Your Website Today
Chris Rackley
Jul23rd
Topics: Web Strategy
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Feel like your website just isn’t packing the punch you’d like it to? No worries. It’s a common problem. Most small business websites suffer from the same strain of mediocrity these days. That’s good news for you, if you’re not happy with your site; because it means that your competition isn’t other businesses on the Web … it’s you, yourself.

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A True Expert
Louisa Stephan
Jul22nd
Topics: Web Strategy
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This afternoon I received a phone call from a prospective client telling me that they were going to go with another company over us for their site redesign. Apparently, the competing web developer had done a great deal of websites in a particular niche market. This was the determining factor in the client’s ultimate choice to hire this other company. Now, I’m sitting here thinking, “Why does a limited portfolio in one sector of work identify that web development company as a true expert when they may not actually be experts at what really matters–technology?” The answer is that it actually doesn’t. 

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A Communication Revolution
Ian Wagner
Jul21st
Topics: Social Media
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From its very beginning, the Internet has been changing the way we communicate. E-mail, instant messaging, Twitter, and Facebook have all had a profound impact on the way we communicate with each other in the 21st century. Just as e-mail has revolutionized the way we write to each other, new technologies are arising that revolutionize the way we speak to each other. VoIP is by no means a new technology, but it is one that has been gaining steam in recent years. The most recent development in the internet telephony world comes from none other than Google: enter Google Voice.

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Don’t be password hacked
The Worthwhile Company
Jul20th
Topics: Technical
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So, it’s my turn to blog again, and while Apple preventing the Palm Pre from syncing music with iTunes was a very tempting topic, I kept on reading my news feeds this morning to find something even more interesting and just as predictable: Twitter employee’s Gmail is “hacked”, and confidential information is compromised. I placed the word “hacked” in quotes in order to point out that his Google account was not “hacked” in the traditional sense of the term; someone simply guessed his password.

Now would be the appropriate time for you, my dear reader, to think about your own Gmail/GoogleApps password, and decide whether or not it is easily-guessable by a would-be attacker.  Here’s a quick guide to ensuring password security:

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