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Thursday, October 9th, 2008A great idea from Google Labs…announced earlier this week. To help prevent you from sending lame, late-night emails after a visit to your local bar, they’ve launched Mail Goggles.
When activated, the program will force you to solve a series of math problems before allowing any message to be sent. You have a limited period [...]
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Keeping Tabs on Twitter
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Business Week has a nice article on the number of brands using Twitter these days. Some are using it to follow customer tweets so they can then respond (even though that can be a bit stalky if not done very carefully), while others use it to build a following. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is a [...]
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Sustainable Leadership School
Monday, September 29th, 2008Last Friday I was up at Furman University in Greenville to attend the first class of a 6 part course on Sustainable Leadership….presented by the Urban Land Institute (ULI). ULI’s South Carolina chapter set up this program to help implement a blueprint for healthy growth across the state by building a diverse team that’s trained [...]
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Awards Entry
Thursday, September 25th, 2008In typical BI fashion, we were once again late in entering the InShow awards, a regional contest put on by the SC chapter of AIGA. Launching 4 major sites in the span of a week could have something to do with the delinquency, but I’m not one to make excuses. I am, however, a well-schooled [...]
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Shoes (and handbags) with Soul
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Just launched a site for Mary Norton - an internationally recognized name for fine Italian made handbags and shoes.
Dubbed the red carpet bag lady, Mary Norton grew up in Arizona and after working in the film industry, moved to Charleston where she now lives. After a dream of weaving flowers into handbags, she became inspired [...]
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Bald Faced vs. Bold Faced
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Today there was some debate over the correct use of the term “bald face liar.” To settle the point, and help guide future workplace discussions, here is the official word on usage (it’s official because it comes from WikiAnswers):
The correct usage is bald-faced lie, but I seriously doubt it has always been that way, as [...]
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Just Add Water
Friday, September 19th, 2008Joined the Park(ing) Day gang this morning to help set up the mini parks downtown by Charleston’s Market.. In just an hour things transformed from a boring slab of asphalt to an urban oasis featuring a music stage, sunflower garden, farmer’s market, mini dog park (for mini dogs), green car and ping pong park. Here’s [...]
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Park(ing) Day is Tomorrow
Thursday, September 18th, 2008For those of you in Charleston tomorrow (Friday, September 19), stop by the Park(ing) Day event near the downtown Market…in front of Anson Restaurant, near the corner of Anson and Market Streets.
Park(ing) Day is a national event where public space, usually in the form of parking spaces, are reimagined as mini public parks. It’s all [...]
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The New Fish Rocks
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Congrats to the entire gang at Fish for their awesome renovation and reopening…the place looks amazing and the menus are tasty. On Thursday night I sampled the crab rangoon and shrimp soup, and on Friday lunch the whole BI team gathered at the moo shoo bar. Charleston needed this. Here are a few shots from [...]
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MINI’s Rooftop Party
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Mini has set up a pretty cool rooftop experience in NYC for 10 days….as a setting for cultural events during the day and parties at night. Located at 10th Ave and 36th Street, the set was designed and built by HWKN, an architecture firm focusing on innovative environments. The rooftop effort is based on Mini’s [...]
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