CHI*Atlanta's got an AJAX event going on tonight (9/22 at 6:30pm) at the super-cool Macquarium building. If you have no idea what AJAX is, you're probably going to fall asleep and bang your head on the desk. Don't worry, we love this stuff, so we'll take notes and you can just cheat off us later (learn more about AJAX here).
We've shocked a few clients recently by telling them, "you just don't need a big expensive website---build a blog." We recently converted our own website to a blog.
Our good friend Toby Bloomberg is speaking at an AMA event here in Atlanta: "Blogs: Marketing Beyond the Website." Looks like a lot of great speakers, so if you've been on the fence about setting up a corporate blog, you might want to attend.
Our good friend Toby Bloomberg is speaking at an AMA event here in Atlanta: "Blogs: Marketing Beyond the Website." Looks like a lot of great speakers, so if you've been on the fence about setting up a corporate blog, you might want to attend.
Shares of Overstock.com fell after they announced some problems upgrading their technology infrastructure. They couldn't update their online inventory for 5 whole weeks during their upgrade. Must have been one heck of an upgrade!
Great article from Prominent Placement about the challenges of getting higher placement "organically" in search engines. : The $64,000 question. If you're totally unfamiliar with the difference between "organic seo" and "PPC" advertising, here's an article with some general background information.
We just had to post this awesome presentation (PDF format) from Wil Shipley (creator of OmniGraffle) on writing software for the Mac. It's inspiring because it's a story from a dude that dared to be a little different, built some useful/simple/efficient tools, and came out on top.
We're really proud to announce that our popular MailChimp product won a 2005 Webaward for "Best Application Service Provider." Aaaw, shucks.
Should you just build it yourself, or outsource it? Here's an interesting article at NYT (via TPNewswire) about how The Gap recently shut down its entire website for weeks, while it assembled their new, home-grown, in-house built e-commerce website.
We're working with our friends at The Arthritis Foundation to totally revamp their extremely popular Disease Center, an online resource for all the different types of Arthritis.
Features lists don't sell. These days, you really need a good "back story" before someone believes in you (enough to buy whatever you're selling). It's what gets people talking, and spreading the word about your product (or website). Here's a great article from our friend Brent Dey on developing your backstory.
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