By aprilholle | general observation, things to do
While there’s a lot to be said about online community and how much value it creates in the web industry, I’d like to focus on offline community for a second. A great deal of time and money has been spent on building online communities and connecting people from one nation to another, but lately the
Tags: Bright Kite, Drawbackwards, Facebook, Forty Agency, GangPlank, Integrum-Technologies, obuweb, offline communities, offline community, Refactor Phoenix, Refocus Phoenix, Refresh-Phoenix, Social Media Club, Social-Networking, social-networks, technology-conference, Tiny Army, Twitter, web communities, web-industry
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, links of the week, user experience, viral marketing
Alright, so I’ve been out of the circuit for a while on these, but they’re coming back! Check out these sweet links I gathered up from the interwebs last week. Ever wonder if your boss, and his boss, and their boss has it out for the company? Do some of their managerial tactics don’t make
Tags: Abstract Photographer, Adobe, Adobe Labs, Adobe Thermo, Adobe Thermo screenshots, Apple iPhone 3G, billboard leasing, BrainFuel.tv, car door handles, Chris Tingom, entrepreneurs, Facebook, Facebook Gangsta, Firefox mobile browsing, Flixwagon, funny-videos, GangPlank, HLF Industries, Howtoons, Ignite Phoenix, Integrum-Technologies, iPhone live video streaming, live video stream, Modzilla Labs, O'Reilly Ignite, Onsite Insite, Phoenix 20, product design, Santan Freeway, team-management, Tyson Crosbie, user experience, user interface, user interface design, user-interaction, Vibram Five Fingers, wireframes
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, design, project management, speaker reviews
Alright so I thought that I’d have time between sessions and parties to really capture everything I’ve done while I was at my first SXSW, unfortunately, that was not the case. However! I took really great notes, so sit back and relax as I tell my story of one girl, one conference and thousands of
Tags: client-relations, client-relationships, clients, informative content, Integrum-Technologies, Jason-Santa-Maria, Jeffrey-Zeldman, Liz Danzico, Props and Drops, respect, SXSW, Twitter
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By aprilholle | new technologies, speaker reviews, things to do
Great Refresh meeting last night over at Inza Coffee. There were about 10 to 15 5 minute demos of new and exciting web projects coming out of Phoenix. Some of the highlights were: Show in a Box – If you’re interested in starting a video blog, but you’re not technically savvy, check out Show in
Tags: After-Halloween, blogging, Daniel-Davis, Integrum-Technologies, Inza-Coffee, Inza-Coffee-House, phoenix, phoenix-lifestyle, phoenix-metro-area, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, Refresh-Phoenix, Social-Networking, social-networks, Steam-Crow-Press, Twitter, video-blogging, web-community, web-design-communities, web-design-groups
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By aprilholle | new idea!, new technologies, speaker reviews, technology reviews, things to do
I had a GREAT TIME at the 2008 Phoenix BarCamp today! I was a little… OK maybe more like VERY nervous about having to stand up in front of people and tell them about things that I might have some expertise in. But once I saw that everyone else was just as informal, I got
Tags: barcamp, barcamp-Phoenix, being-open, building-great-teams, building-teams, business, business-communication, business-relationships, business_owner, business_owners, command-and-control, command-and-control-culture, common_sense_approach, communication, company-goals, company-values, company-vision, corporate-culture, corporate_environments, creative-culture, creative-teams, creatives, Derek-Neighbors, employee-investment, employee-moral, employee-values, enjoy-work, enjoying-work, Escape-from-Cubicle-Nation, fun-at-work, fun-work-environments, great-employees, Integrum-Technologies, interests, internal-communication, new idea!, new technologies, open_honest_communication, Pam-Slim, Pamela-Slim, personal-investments, personal-relationships, personal_investment, phoenix, Phoenix-BarCamp, phoenix-lifestyle, Phoenix-web-events, Refresh-Phoenix, speaker reviews, team-building, team-goals, team-management, team-work, technology reviews, technology-conference, things to do, true_interests, web-community, web-workshops, web_industry, web_professionals, web_workers, work-atmosphere, work-environment, working_environment
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, technology reviews, things to do
Come on over to Inza Coffee House tomorrow night to join me and the crew of Refresh Phoenix as we discuss Blueprint CSS. Blueprint is a CSS framework by Olav Bjorkoy, which “aims to cut down on your CSS development time.” Matt Heidemann & Matt Gist from Integrum Technologies will talk about their recent work
Tags: Blueprint-CSS, Cascading-Style-Sheets, Coffee, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, css, css-file, CSS-Framework, css-stylesheets, development-time, framework, front-end-development, good-website-design, Integrum-Technologies, Inza-Coffee, Inza-Coffee-House, Matt-Gist, Matt-Heidemann, naming-conventions, Olav-Bjorkoy, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, Print-Style-Sheets, printing-websites, Refresh-Phoenix, Social-Networking, style-sheets, stylesheet, technology reviews, things to do, typography, web-community, Web-Design, web-event, web-site-design, web-workshops, website-design, websites, XHTML/CSS
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