Archive for the 'DIGITAL' Category

Environmental site design (ESD) presentation review: This presentation pretty much sums it up, what went before and what should go from here on out. Of course, it is northern East Coast and slightly different from Northwestern options. The slide quality is pretty good, most slides were not overly verbose…I mean, if you are just going [...]

No longer must we be limited to schematic descriptions of what we will build, or tedious cardboard models. Now there is Building Information Modeling. AutoDesk has taken their AutoCad to new heights with Revit and Navisworks. See an example of it’s use on LewisBuilds.com.

I have been having problems signing onto my TMobile account management since August 25th. Today I finally got through. I am documenting the problems here in hopes they will rectify them for future users.  If they do, I may continue with TMobile.  My contract has been up for a while now.
Originally I tried to access [...]

when deciding how to use social media networks for spreading brand awareness, like good website design, marketing by social media really needs to identify their end user and consider potential campaigns to them carefully.

Why this site?
To examine an example of the multi-channel Twitter strategy.
As a country wide federal agency, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has split their twittering into:

General news feeds
Specialized interest news feeds (like RSS)
Localized Twitter discussion groups.

As confirmed by the Web Communication lead, their overall Twitter mission includes Education, Outreach, Promote Awareness and personalizing their business. [...]

Why this site?
The UK Prime Minister’s group are heavy into their social media use and Twitter is but a part of their total strategy.  Not every event, news or discussion they are having is reflected in this channel.  Unlike many other government agencies (whom I will get to eventually) they are selecting bits of content [...]

Introduction
As a former government contractor and public servant, I am interesting in exploring how government agencies are using Twitter.  My quick profiles come from a variety of countries and levels of government looking for patterns.  Social media tools offer government the opportunity to bypass traditional media filters and reveal themselves as more than a closed [...]

Working in hard times: Consider service groups or starting your own business. SBA advice & business card links.

My friend DD pointed me to an article announcing the imminent death of Dreamweaver.  (Darn, I still needed to update my skills to CS4…which is still sitting in its box for these past six months.) Reading further, the author discusses dynamic versus static site design and the ready availability of such free platforms such as [...]

suggestions on attracting larger user group with blogs, links to advice from Matt Gross of New York Times Frugal Traveler.