WebVisions 2010 A Big Success

Jack — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:38:29 +0000

The 10th anniversary of WebVisions, a nationally-recognized conference that explores the future of Web design, technology, user experience and business strategy was held in at the Portland Conference Center this past week. I have to congratulate executive director Brad Smith, the great staff, and an amazing crew of volunteers for putting on a fantastic conference.

The line up of speakers was top-notch as always. Topics ranged from Luke Williams’ “How to Spark Disruptive Innovation” (opening keynote), to Shashi Bellamkonda’s “Personal Branding”, to nuts and bolts stuff like “Designing Our Way Through Web Forms” with Kimberly Blessing and Christopher Schmitt.

I came away from this conference smarter, more connected and more inspired to keep learning, and keep building awesome stuff for the web!

(photo by Shashi Bellamkonda)

TwitterTown: How To Engage A Local Market

Jack — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:39 +0000

As I’ve said many times, marketing is not my forte. I’m a web designer/developer, and I simply don’t have time to become an expert in marketing, seo (search engine optimization) and social media. That said, these areas are of great interest to my clients, so the subject comes up daily.

Here’s a great article by Scott Stratten at UnMarketing which sheds some light on how you can use Twitter to help engage a local market.

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WebVisions 2010 A Big Success

TwitterTown: How To Engage A Local Market