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« Previous EntriesThere’s No “My” In “We”
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
It’s about time that all the internet-related “my” hype dies. Isn’t the “Me Decade” supposed to be over? Wasn’t that the 80s or 90s? Together, WE can end the MYbrandname.com trend. It’s not really just your brand anyway, is it?
So, here’s to more “we” in our lives. We = community, connections, social networks, etc. I like Al Gore’s new We Can Solve It campaign to end global warming. It’s important, hip, positive and even looks fun. Me is just a backwards and upside version of we anyway. And most of all, we is something we can do together.
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April Fool’s Birthday
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008BBQ lunch today to celebrate DW’s born-on day. Vikings colors on the balloons courtesy of Jim n’ Nicks. Cheers.
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Addy Time
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Had a fun Saturday night at the annual Addy awards show…four hours of chat, dinner, open bar and marketing awards. We were excited that a number of 2007 projects received awards. The Bundoran Farm website won a Gold Addy and the Best of Interactive award, the EcoFitness/BlueTurtle Yoga website won a Special Judges award for its tools/widgets, and the Charleston Area CVB Meeting Planner promotional site, Berenyi Inc. website and Drayton Hall animated timeline all won Gold Addy awards.
Other sites winning Sliver and Bronze awards included the Alys Beach website, Merge Advertising website, GetInspired Charleston website, SPCA Building Campaign website, Drayton Hall website, Ethanex Energy website, Ethanex Energy animation, Greenbrier Sporting Club microsite, TBonz Restaurants websites campaign, The Mason Building website, Garden & Gun Magazine website, New Market Charleston microsite and two DPS email campaigns.
Many thanks to all who participated in these projects…including the clients who make them all possible and the many team members who play a part in creating/launching each one. Cheers and thanks also go out to all the volunteers from Ad Fed Charleston who put in huge hours to make the awards and event happen.
Here’s a quick pic of RY, JC and MH celebrating the widget award…
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Random Highlights Of The Day
Monday, March 10th, 2008All in all..a solid day at SXSW. Here’s a quick recap of some of the highlights (or lowlight in one case):
CS in the heat of the moment.
ScreenBurn Arcade - stopped by the gaming den at ScreenBurn to demo some of the latest games/equip and watch the pro gamer tournament. CS made some kids cry while playing Team Fortress.
Wireframing/Prototypes - good presentation on wireframing in a 2.0 world by a duo from Clearleft.com. Aside from nifty examples of how to build live prototypes, they shared their perspectives on how traditional wireframing limits opportunity (or possibility space) while advanced prototyping is about exploring/expanding possibility.
Getting Emotional By Design - heard Eris Stassi of Apple and Didier Hilhorst of IDEO talk about ways to leverage emotional connections in digital design. Learned a new word….haptics (think iPhone).
Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy
Keynote Disaster - What was meant to be the highlight of the day…Facebook founder/ceo Mark Zuckerberg being interviewed by BusinessWeek reporter/author Sarah Lacy…turned into a disaster and the talk of the town/web. She was more interested in making her own statements, couldn’t muster any intelligent questions and seemed to be trying to dis Zuckerberg in front of the crowd. The lowpoint/highpoint was when the restless audience revolted after one person shouted “say something interesting.” She then replied…”you don’t understand how hard my job is.” Never seen that before. More on all that here.
20 Ways to Woo Users - GREAT presentation by Kathy Sierra on ways to “harness” cognitive seduction in user experiences. Best point…focus your goals on users, not the company or product. It’s not about someone thinking your company kicks ass…or your product kicks ass. It’s about about the USER kicking ass.
The 2008 Web Awards followed (Eugene Mirman was an hilarious emcee) and the night was capped by a party at the Austin City Limits Sound Stage.
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Tops and Uprocks
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Special thanks to all who came out on Friday night for the 41st Annual Blue Ion Holiday Party. It was great seeing everyone and from the looks of things around the office today everything was kept well in-hand.
Stay tuned for additional photography/video from the bash…. In the meantime, we leave you with this candid shot of our Digital Marketing Director.
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More Happy Birthoween
Monday, October 29th, 2007 Here are some more pics from the big evening. Use arrows to navigate through the slideshow.Topics: Party | No Comments »
Happy Birthoween
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Under the guise of a surprise birthday party for CS a surprise birthday party for RY was pulled off without a hitch this Sat night. Given that the actual dob is 10.31 the costumes were full force…as were the sounds of W.B.C. featuring Mc PIP and Ice Tre’.
Here’s a little taste…
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Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
We were a bit surprised to see this ad posted in the men’s room of the building the other day….seems you can’t get away from interruptive advertising these days….but even more startling was the phone number featured and the fact that almost all of the “take ones” were taken.
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Happy Birthday MH
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Enough said (reads both ways)…on the eve of college football’s opening weekend. MH will be in attendance as Carolina hosts the fighting crawdads of Lafayette Louisiana High. Go Cocks!
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Lowcountry Sausage Boil
Friday, August 24th, 2007
It’s been a while since we’ve done a post for the ladies. No, this isn’t a still from the prequel to Cocoon (though who doesn’t love Wilford Brimley?). Rising from the shadowy depths, I present you the events that tolled at 2300 hours as part of the RP birthday extravaganza.
Rest assured those aren’t Coke cans in their hands.
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