Top Web Apps and Tools I use every morning | Bloomington, IN

Every morning around 8:30 AM I awake to my iPhone ringing in my ear. I roll over and turn off the alarm and then instantly proceed with my day by checking my Email accounts, Twitter accounts, and Facebook via the iPhone. I almost like the interface on the iPhone better than I do on my Macbook’s browser. While drinking a cup of coffee, I head to my home office and proceed to check my websites’...

Client Web Design tips | Bloomington, IN

After working in web design for a couple years now, I have come to terms that potential clients are unprepared when speaking about what they want or what they need. I’m not bashing on potential clients because they don’t know what we need and it’s our fault for not expressing  a clear view of the vision for the client. Here are a few tips to people who want/need a website, web design,...

First #Bloomingtontweetup at Stone Cutters Coffee | Bloomington, IN

It was a great turnout for the Bloomington Tweetup (#Bloomingtontweetup) at Stone Cutters Coffee! For all of you that don’t know what I mean by “tweetup”, it’s a term used to describe a meet-up of your Twitter friends. This give you a chance to put the actual person with the twitter name. It was excellent seeing Adam P. Schweigert (@aschweig), Kevin Makice (@kmakice), Colin...

Why Social Media is important to small business | Bloomington, Indiana

After working with some small businesses in Bloomington, Indiana; I have noticed that they are one step behind. This isn’t their fault by no means. Older mom and pop shops are now starting to need a web presence to keep up with competition and keep up with their customers. Here in the city of Bloomington an overwhelming change in customers happen every year in the month of May due to classes...

HootSuite | Social Media manager for Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and more

Social Media managing web apps are popping up all over the net like the feature filled app Gist to a simple app like Brizzly, so what about the middle apps? HootSuite is the answer to your needs. HootSuite makes managing your Social Media easy, much like Brizzly, by offering an interface to manage your feeds from Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. It’s easy to post new statuses and updates via...

Brizzly | Manage your Twitter and Facebook feed easily.

I’ve been using Brizzly for sometime now and this web app rocks! Brizzly takes your Twitter and Facebook login and creates a simple manageable layout for your feeds. The feeds are separate in their respective network but clicking on a tab will switch them easily. You’re probably wondering why you would use this website when you can just open tabs in a browser? The answer is simple: security....

Four web apps to edit images through the browser.

Who would have thought that you would be able to edit images through your browser? These four web apps allow you to edit image with many of the tools that would be on a whole software package. This means cropping, drawing, layering, and anything for editing will be possible with these apps. Most (if not all) do exactly the same things as each other, its just a matter of choosing which brand or user...

Twenty-Ten | The year of the Co-op, collectives, and collaborative

Welcome to 2010! Let’s make this the year of Co-op, collectives, and collaborative. Together we can take this year and make a goal to take a good part of the market share from the big corporations by joining together to make better products and give even better services. 5 years ago making any type of co-op, collective or collaborative meant everyone had to be in the same town or even same building;...

Manage documents from a web browser with Google, Adobe, or Zoho

In this post I’ll be discussing cloud based options for creating documents through your browser. In my earlier posts you probably noticed that I enjoy working through a web browser thanks to the expansion of technology and the ubiquity of the Internet. This excellent expansion has turned the physical office into a virtual office and it’s to a point where a person can purchase a 10 inch...

Microblogging | What it is and where you can do it.

Microblogging is a fairly new term being used online and some of you are probably wondering what it means to ‘microblog’. It’s a fairly simple term and idea. Micoblogging is like blogging but really only to share thoughts, moments in life, photos, links, ideas… etc. Microblogging is for you to show who you are in small doses and give the reader an idea of your thought process....