I’ve been doing some web consulting for Warren Brown, the owner of CakeLove and host of the show “Sugar Rush” on the Food Network.
His bakery is here in DC and my ex John is managing the opening of their brand new Silver Spring location.
They are having their “soft opening” today so I spent HOURS yesterday […]

I finished another web ad - this one for the Houston Voice.

I just finished putting together another web ad for the Washington Blade.

I wanted to post it here in case any of you DCers wanted to attend.
It’s open bar! CHA-CHING!

Have you checked out Alexa.com? My new coworker Aram turned me on to it.
This website lets you see the ranking of almost all websites out there. It also lets you compare the traffic for two sites to see which one has more reach.
You should be proud to know my site is #1. […]

I just read Jakob Nielsen’s article on Lower-Literacy Users.
In summary, the article said that around “30% of Web users have low literacy” and that “improving websites for lower-literacy users can also help higher-literacy users.”
Of course, Nielsen said that some sites are targeted towards high literacy users, which is fine, but the majority of sites out […]

Continuing with my thoughts on Frank E. Watkins article “Technology, The Internet And Progressive Politics,” in this post I will look at what kind of systems/software/services are out there to help transform the wait-in-line-and-fill-out-this-and-that-paper-government into an e-government.
Let’s start across ‘the pond.’ Over in the UK they are implementing a National CRM Programme.

The CRM National […]

Continuing with my thoughts on Frank E. Watkins article “Technology, The Internet And Progressive Politics,” in this post I will look at what kind of systems/software/services are out there to help elected officials better manage their constituencies.
As Watkins, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s Press Secretary and Communications Director, mentioned in his article (and as referenced in […]

Frank E. Watkins, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s Press Secretary and Communications Director, wrote an article entitled “Technology, The Internet And Progressive Politics.” The article is about how, over the years, he and the Congressman have used technology to win in politics.
As The Femocrat notes in her blog, the article is basically an infomercial […]

Amy Gahran wrote a good piece on the difference between online newsletters and RSS webfeeds and why RSS beats the newsletters out hands down.
After a few weeks now of using Sharpreader I admit I am hooked. It allows me to choose what blogs I want to get info from and allows me to […]

Both in class and the readings for class “Viral Marketing” has come up over and over again as a powerful tool to reach people.
But…just how powerful is it?
Well, Eyebeam, a ‘non-profit center for art and technology’ decided to find out. They organized the “Contagious Media Showdown” in which contestants were given a month to […]

web blogs = blog & web ads = bads
In my grad class Politics & the New Media we have talked about website design and putting together a site that people want to visit and like when they do. We have also talked about blogs and how to use them in campaigns, and how to […]

For all those of you who have iTunes - you will love this! I found a page on the apple site that allows you to put song name or artist or album and it will create a link in html for you to post on your blogs. I mean - how fun is […]