January 25th, 2010
Chartwell Booksellers, an independent bookseller in New York City, was featured this past Sunday on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” program. Program host Charles Osgood visited with Chartwell owner Barry Singer in this profile of the shop, timed to coincide with the 45th anniversary of Churchill’s death.
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December 6th, 2009
For about a year now, we have turned to Ruby on Rails as our default platform for web development. Recent, in-progress (and all, as of this writing, not-public) projects include a redevelopment of the Colden Corporation’s intranet; a video-based site for a startup helping companies dialog with physicians on back-to-work requirements for job positions and [...]
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September 1st, 2009
Professional services firms have always represented an important market for our work. A typical project often comprises strategic/marketing consulting, development of content management capabilities, analysis of traffic anayltics data, creative redesign, content population, testing, launch, and maintenance. Here are some highlights of recent work from the last year or so.
Dannible & McKee
We produced two wholesale [...]
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July 4th, 2009
We’ve become increasingly fond of Ning - an online, largely free platform for creating social networking sites. Despite not providing the most flexibility for customizing content or design, the Ning platform does allow for quick and easy creation and editing of a complete social networking site - lots of tools to add blogs, forums, photos, [...]
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June 29th, 2009
After kicking the tires on a variety of blog engines for the past few years, we now turn to Wordpress by default for blogs - and, increasingly, for low-level content management needs for our clients’ sites. For a simple (and free) blog, we might help our clients by setting up and training them on a [...]
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May 19th, 2009
Our client Fiddlehead is a maker of a hardware solution designed for schools in which a single PC can be turned in four or more computers. Each virtual computer can run a different operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux), teachers can view/control each student’s desktop, support folks have fewer PCs to maintain - these and other [...]
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May 8th, 2009
Social media such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and other venues offer professional services firms a way to improve visibility, a mechanism for enhancing their reputation, and a system for building community.
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May 7th, 2009
Content syndication, through technologies strategies such as PHP’s cURL and RSS feeds, reduces duplicate effort and cost, ensures the consistency of content, and enhances the user experience.
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