8 New Changes to Facebook Fan Pages & How This Affects You

By February 21st, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg is shakin’ things up again! This past week Facebook changed the layout and functionality of their Fan Pages. While the new changes may not be obvious at first, they will have a huge impact on the way marketers use Facebook.

Listed below are 8 of the changes I am most excited about and how they will impact your online marketing strategy.

1. A New Layout

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11 iPad Apps for Digital Marketers

By January 17th, 2011

If your industry is social media, online marketing, web development, or anything digital you will find that these 11 iPad application will come in handy to use everyday.

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7 Free & Easy Online Photo Editors

By December 30th, 2010

I spend a lot of time on my personal blog and one of the most important things about my posts are the images. Since I don’t have photoshop I started doing research to find some really great, easy to use, online tools to editing my images. Here they are…

“82% of respondents say that they post photos to their blog, making images the most popular form of multimedia.” ~ “2009 State of the Blogosphere by Technorati

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When Will It Snow Chicago?

By December 3rd, 2010

We came up with a fun contest to predict when Chicago would have it’s first snow of the season.

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Chicago’s Best "Check In" Deals on Foursquare

Yep, we looked through tons of “check in’s” on Foursquare and here our the best deals. Which one’s do you like or have use?

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22 Free Stock Photography Web Sites

By November 30th, 2010

1. Stock.xchnge

Great selection of photos for businesses and bloggers. You must create an account to download free images, however, you can’t copyright these images or claim them as your own. If you have any questions, a forum is available for members to ask questions regarding specific images.

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100 Well-designed Facebook Fan Pages

By November 17th, 2010

A well-designed Facebook fan page can encourage more people to “like” your page. So we did a little research and found 100 very cool and very well-designed Facebook fan pages. Enjoy! Read More

Creative Director ~ Marvin Russell Featured in Inc. Magazine

By October 29th, 2010

Our creative director, Marvin Russell was featured in Inc. Magazine this week talking about what you shouldn’t do when designing a website.

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Is Twitter a Social Network?

By September 16th, 2010

Kevin Thau, Twitter’s VP for business and corporate development publicly stated yesterday that Twitter is not a Social Network. Up until this point I had never thought about the public’s perception of Twitter or Twitter’s perception of itself. In my mind I just threw Twitter under the umbrella of social networking websites. Read More

Shareability should now be in your web vocabulary.

By September 10th, 2010

Ten years ago the web was used to gain information.  Today’s it’s used to share information.  People inherently love to share informative, resourceful, controversial, inspiring or funny things. It makes them feel knowledgeable and helpful amongst friends and family members.  With social media, the ability to share information has never been so easy.

Remember a few years back when you read a good article online and the only way to share it was to email all your friends?  It probably seemed simple and convenient. Today, what a pain! Welcome social media share buttons. Read More