Greg FalkenI recently attended an all day conference in Fresno, as a consultant for the Small Business Development Center. In this role, I work with small businesses to help them with their website development and online presence. This service is free to business who register with the SBDC. It’s is a nation-wide program, mostly funded by … Read more
What does “local business” mean to you? I think that the defining characteristic of a local business is that they expect to have personal relationships with their customers. It isn’t about the size of the business or even if they operate outside of the area where they are located. I consider our county’s largest private … Read more
Design trends have to keep changing, otherwise they wouldn’t be trends. The current trend towards minimalism in website design is partly in response to the jam-packed designs of recent years, which often tried to visually assault site visitors into taking some type of action. According to the article The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design, … Read more
WordPress and its parent company Automattic are celebrating their 10th anniversary. They find themselves at the top of the heap when it comes to shear numbers of websites using the WordPress platform, powering over 23% of all websites. Beyond that, they are innovators in creating a globally distributed workforce and a profitable open source software … Read more
Nothing interrupts the flow of work like a misbehaving keyboard. When pressing a key doesn’t result in a character appearing on the screen, it puts a serious dent in one’s typing accuracy. So when my Microsoft wireless keyboard started acting up and replacing the batteries didn’t help, I started looking at alternatives to the $30-$80 cheap … Read more
We spend a lot of effort online trying to get our message out; publishing newsletters, posting on Facebook and Twitter and generally trying to get other people’s attention. However, the Internet is just as valuable for the information you can take in. The trouble is that it can be like drinking from the proverbial fire … Read more
One of the things I love about my job is sharing new, interesting and useful information about using the Internet to communicate better. I already do this one-on-one with my website clients, here on the blog, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Now, I am relaunching my newsletter to provide yet another channel for this information. The … Read more
Barack Obama broke all records with the uptake of his new @POTUS twitter account, which took only five hours to reach one million followers. The map below shows the time lapse subscriptions to the account. Your browser does not support the video tag. CartoDB Note that the account isn’t his to keep, it belongs to … Read more
On June 23rd, Facebook is deprecating (i.e. turning off) a number of plugins including the Like Box, Activity Feed, Facepile and Recommendations Feed. Not to worry, there are new plugins to take their place. The closest equivalent to the Like Box is the new Page Plugin. It has the same features (face display, recent posts, share … Read more
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